EUPHORBIAOE.^. 191 



26. Codiseum Rumph.^ — Flowers monoeeious, 5- or more rarely 

 4-6-merous ; sepals and petals sometimes small in female flower 

 (Blachia-), minute orO, imbricate. Glands same in number, alterni- 

 petalous or connate in annular lobed disk. Stamens cc, inserted in 

 the centre of conical receptacle ; filaments free or more or less 1-adel- 

 phous ; antliers introrse, lateral, or most usually cxtrorse ; cells 

 adnate to the connective in theii* whole length [Phyllaurea ^), some- 

 times at the apex, or more or less high to the middle or more rarely 

 to the base free (^Bahcjliia.,^ Stcigcria,^). Germen 3, 4-locular; style 

 branches same in number simple [Tylosepalum,^ Sf/naspisina^'' On- 

 fodes,^ Phyllaurea) or 2-fld or partite {Baloc/hia), more rarely pluri- 

 partite {Steigeria) ; ovule solitary in cell ; obturator usually rather 

 thick. Fruit capsular; exocarp more or less fleshy or coriaceous 

 thick, sometimes ligneous-capsular ( Ostodcs) ; cotyledons of albu- 

 minous embryo foliaceous ; exostome richly or sparsely ( Ostodes) aril- 

 late. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate or opposite entii-e penni- 

 nerved; flowers in racemes 1, 2-sexual, terminal or axillary some- 

 times umbelliform. ( Warm Asia and Oceania.'^) 



27. Ricinocarpus Desf.^° — Flowers monoeeious (of Codkeum, 

 sect. Baloghia) ; sepals imbricated or twisted, sometimes but rarely 

 {Apetulidion^^). Glands alternate 5, free or adhering to interior of 

 sepals (J)iomodiscus ^~). Stamens co, 5-nate, inserted on central 

 columella ; anthers extrorsely rimose, more or less emargrnate on 

 both sides. Female calyx 5, 6-merous. Glands of hypogynous 



1 Bob. Ambo'm. iv. 65, t. 25-27. — A. Juss. ^ Bl. Bijdi-. 619. — Endl. Gen. n. 5803.— H. 



Euphorb. 33, t. 9, fig. 30.— Endl. Oeii. n. 5818. B.v. Euphorh. 391 ; in Adansoiiia, xi. 78.— M. 



— H. Bn. Euphorb. 384, t. 16, fig. 26-35; in Arc. in Ziiiiiaii, xxxiv. 2U ; rrodr. 1114.— 



Adansoiiia, xi. 73-80. — M. Arg. Prodi: 1116. — Desmostemon Thw. Eiium. PI. Zeijl. 278. 



? Fahrciiheitia Reichb. f. et Zoll. in Liniiiea, ' Spec, about 20. Forst. Frodr. 67 {Croton). — 



xxviii. 599. — M. Arc. Proir. 1256 {incl.: Ba- Sprexg. iS>s<. iii. 906 {Tiricia). — IjAjsill. Sert. 



loghia ExDL. Blachia H. Bn. Desmostemon Thw. Caled, 77, t. 75 [Crozophora). — W. Upcc. iv. 545 



Junghniiia MiQ. Ostodes Bl. Phyllaurea Lour. [Croton). — Wight. Jcoii. t. 1874 [Croton). — 



dijiiaspisma ExDL. Steigeria M. Arg. Tijlosepa- Roxd. Fl. hid. iii. 680 [Croton). — Miq. Fl. Iiid.- 



liiiH Kt'Rz). Bat. i. p. ii. 384 [Ostodes). — H. Bx. inAdansonia, 



* H. Bx. Euphorb. 385, t. 19, fig. 18-20. i. 345 [Baloghia), 251, 348; ii. 214 [Baloyliia), 

 ' Lour. Fl. Cochiiich. (od. 1790), 575. — Eu- 218 [Sgnaspisma) ; ■n. 296 [Baloghia), 303. 



codimiim M. Aro. Prodr. 1119 (sect. 4). — Jung- '" In Mini. Mtis. iii. 459, t. 22. — A. Jues. 



hunia Miq. Fl. hid. -Bat. i. p. ii, 412. Euphorb. 36. — Exdl. Qen. n. 6812 ; Iconogr. t. 



* Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 84 ; Gen. n. 5811 ; 125 [Ricinocarpus).— B.. Bn. Euphorb. 343, t. 12, 

 Icon. t. 122, 123.— H. Bx. Euphorb. 344. fig. 39-44.— M. Arc. Prodr. 20i.—JRa:peria 



* II. Aro. in Liimcca, xxxiv. 215; Prodr. Spreng. Sijst. iii. 13 (neo A. Juss.). — Echino- 

 1121. — U. Bn. in Adansoiiia, xi. 74. sphara Sieb. MSS. (ex Sond. in Liniicta, xxviii. 



^ KuRz. in Tegnm. et Sinn. PI. Nov. vel Min. 662). 

 I Cogn. Sort. Bog. 36. ' ' M. Aro. in Linncea, xxxiv. 59. (A legiti- 



' Exdi,. Ocn. n. 5775. — II. Bn. Euphorb. 387. ni.ite sprcies of this genus f) 

 I— M. Arg. Prodr. 1120, sect. 6. " M. Aro. loc. cit. 69. 



