EUPHOMBIAOE^. 197 



87? Cheilosa Bl.^— Flowers (nearly of Echinus) dicecioiis; 

 calyx subvalvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens inserted round 

 rudimentary gyuseceum free ; anthers iutrorse ; cells adnate rimose. 

 Disk 10-glandular ; glands 2'plicate alternating in series. Germen 

 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style branches 3, shortly 2-fid, stigmati- 

 ferous at apex. Pruit capsular ; exocarp thick ; seeds exarillate. 

 Other characters of Echinus.^ — A tree ; leaves alternifoliate penni- 

 ncrved ; flowers in axillary cymiferous racemes. {Jnva.^) 



38. Epiprinus Grfff.* — Flowers monoecious. Male calyx naked, 

 4-partite, valvate. Stamens od , usually few ; filaments free inserted 

 round base of rudimentary gynaseeum, in bud 2-2ilicate ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Female calyx 6-partite ; leaves reduplicate, 

 after florescence much foliaceoixs accrescent, surrounded outside 

 by bracts same in number, shorter alternate (of involucre). Germen 

 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style straight afterwards transversely 

 3-lobed beyond articulation ; leaves thick 2-fid ; divisions inciso- 

 papillose. Fruit capsular 3-dymous, surrounded at basewith accres- 

 cent perianth and involucre. Seed ? — A tree ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate entire penninerved large ; flowers racemose, axillary to 

 upper leaves ; female pedicels finally long, calyculate ; ^ lobes of 

 epicalyx alternating with those of calyx, smaller, distinctly 2-gland- 

 ular.*' {3Ialaisia?) 



39. Garcia Eoim.^ — Flowers monoecious ; receptacle convex. 

 Calyx gamophyllus, valvate, iinequally or subequally broken (2-4- 

 partite). Male petals to 10, female to 8, 2-seriate, verticillate, 

 strong, outwardly and at margin sub-imbricate, much sericeo-villose. 

 Disk in both sexes shortly urceolatc, deeply pectinate-dentate. Sta- 

 mens or: , free ; the receptacle dilated between them in ciliate unequal 



ScHUM. et Thqnn. Beslcn. 410 {Aeal'/p/ai).— BoH. Bng. 232.— Mia. F/. Iiiil.-Ilitl. i. p. ii. 



Koxii. Fl. Ind. iii. 828 (7e«/««-«).— SiEU. ct 410. 



Zucc. Fl. Jap. t. 79 (ie««fcrrt).— Benth. Niger, * Post/i. Pap. 487.— M. Aro. in Liiiiima, 



60G [Claiixiilmi) ; Fl. Austral, vi. 138 {Mallotm). xxxiv. 144 ; Prodr. 1024. 



— ZoLL. et MoR. Verzn. 17 [Mappa). — Tnw. * After the manner of ZTiiiwrn. 



Eiiitm. PL /.till. 272 {Uottkra), 273 {Pudadciiiu). " Much hotter made a sect, of Fchinits? 



— II. Bx. in Adaiisonia, i. C9, 2.59 ; ii. 223 {Rut- ' Spec. 1. F. M/ilai/aiim Gkifp. loc. cit. 



tlera) ; iv. 313. " In Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Ilafii. ii. 217, t. 9.— 



1 7/y(f)-. G13.— Endl. Gen. n. 5821.— II. Bn. Vaiii., <S>Hi. ifn<. iii. 99.— A. Juss. ff«;)/jo)-i. 41, 



Euphnrb. 420.— M. Aro. Prodr. 1123. t. 13, fig. 40.— En'ul. Qeii. n. 6797.— H. B.N. 



= To which genua it is undoubtedly allied. Eiiphorb. 392, t. 14, fig, 28-38.— M. Aro. Prodr. 



' Spec. 1. C. Montana Bl, loc. cit. — Hassk. 721. 



