EUPHORBIACE^. 189 



21. Pogonophora Miees.' — Flowers dioecious ; sepals 5, free or 

 connate at base, much imbricated. Petals same in number longer, 

 barbate within, imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, often 2- 

 dentate, inserted between the lobes of the disk ; filaments short free 

 erect ; anthers basifixed elongated introrsely, 2-rimose. Germen 

 rudimentary central erect linear. Disk in female flower hypogy- 

 nous submembranous. Germen 3-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate; style 

 scarcely divided into 3 branches, stigmatiferous 2-lobed at apex ; 

 capsule 3-coccate ; seeds exarUlate ; hilum wide. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate penninerved ; stipules small or ; flowers 

 in racemes or ramified glomerate spikes.- {Trop. America.^) 



22. Microdesmis Pl.* — Flowers dioecious ; sepals usually 5, 

 sub-free or connate at base, imbricate. Petals same in number, 

 alternate longer imbricated or twisted. Stamens 10 (Gam'trocai'jnis''), 

 •5 of which are oppositipetalous shorter or 5 alternate [Eumkrodesmis) ; 

 filaments inserted round the thickened diskiform base of rudimentary 

 gynseceum, simple erect ; anthers introrse, 2 rimose, connective 

 sometimes shortly apiculate. Perianth of female flowers like 

 male. Germen 2, 3-locular; ovule solitary in cell; style 2, 3, 

 discrete at base, 2-partite erect much lacerate-papillose. Fruit 

 drupaceous globose. Putamen thick, hard, outwardly much muri- 

 cate ; prickles penetrating the flesh of the mesocarp ; seed albu- 

 minous ; cotyledons of straight embryo ellipsoid or subcordate sub- 

 equal to terete radicle. — Shi-ubs ; leaves alternate (2-stichous) simple 

 penninerved, subentke or dentate, pellucid-punctulate ; stij)ules 

 small subulate ; flowers ^ axillary fasciculate-cymose. {Troj). West 

 Africa, India, China, Borneo?) 



23. Micrandra.^ — Flowers (nearly of Pogonophora) monoecious 

 apetalous ; sepals 5, G, imbricated. Glandules in male flower same 



— A. Jnss. \-aAnn. Sc. ^'at. ser. 3, i. 27 {Geis- Aug. in Flora (1864), 134. 



aoloma ?). — W. Spec, iv. 879 ; Sort. Bcrol. t. 51, ■* In Honk. Icon. t. 758. — Clos. in A>i>i. Sc. 



62.— Jauu. et Spach, III. PI. Or. t. 465-468.— Nut. ser. 4, iv. 382.— H. B.v. Euphorb. 668.— B. 



SoNDEK, in Linnaa, xxiii. 129. — Bern, in Tlora H. Gen. 124. — M. Abo. Prodr. 1041. 



(1845), 81. — M. Aro. in Seem. Joiirii. of Bot. i. ' Pl. loc. cit. sect. 2. 



337. — H. Bx. in Adansonia, i. 14C, 345; iii. '" Red," dry vireacent, small. 



150. ? Spec. 2. Hook. f. Niger, 514, t. 26.— H. 



'In Hook. Jotirn. of Bot. (1854), 372.— H. B-s. mAdansonia,\. 65. 

 Bn. Euphorb. 332, t. 19, fig. 21-23.— M. Arc. ' Benth. in Hook. Jourii. (1854), 371 (neo R. 



in Ziwnira, xxxiv. 202 ; PiWr. 1040. Br). — U. By. Euphorb. 333.— M. Aro. Prodr. 



■ Gen. leaves, inflorescence, and perianth of 709. — Pogonophyllum Didr. in Nat. For. Vid. 



Icacina referred to the same regions. Medd. (1857), 22. 



' Spec. 2. H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 286. — M. 



