EUPHORBIACE^. 199 



thers introrsc, 2-rimose. Germen rudimentary, usually 0, sometimes 

 minute. Female sepals 5, slightly connate at base. Petals 5, much 

 longer, free, much imbricated. Disk hypogynous minute. Germen 

 3-locular, densely hirsute ; ovule solitary in cell, rather thickly obtu- 

 rated ; styles 3, thick stigmatiferous, 2-partite at apex. Fruit 3-coc- 

 cate; cocci compressed at the sides, solute from central columella 

 dehiscent ; seeds exarillate. — Scandent shi-ubs ; indumentum stellate '^ 

 leaves alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate, entire or 3-lobed, 5-plinerved 

 at base; flowers in axillary cymiferous racemes.^ — {Trop. Went. 

 Africa?) 



42 ? Paracroton Miq.^' — " Flowers monoecious (?); sepals 5, im- 

 bricated. Petals same in number, imbricated. Stamens 15-2U; 

 filaments central, 1-adelphous; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Glands 

 of tlisk alternipetalous. Germen 3-locular, 3-agonal-pyramidal ; 

 ityle branches 3, 2-fid rather acute ; cells 1-ovidate." Capsule thick 

 ligneous ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds transversely ellipsoid wider than 

 long, glabrous ; albumen copious ; embryo wide ; cotyledon large 

 reniform, digitinerved at base. — A medium sized tree; branches 

 patent ; leaves alternate petiolate lanceolate repando- serrate, 2-glan- 

 lular at base ; flowers in immense terminal racemes ; ° peduncle 

 jompressed ; pedicels alternate fasciculate.^ (Java?') 



43. Leucocroton Geiseb.'^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous. Male 

 calyx 3-4-parLite, valvate. Glands of disk same in number, usually 

 short, oppositisepalous. Stamens 6-10, inserted below minute rudi- 

 ment of gynseceum ; filaments free except at base ; anthers introrse, 

 2-rimose. Female calyx 5, 6-partite, valvate; glands of disk same 

 in number opposite. Germen 3-locular; cells 1 -ovulate ; style 

 afterwards 3- partite, branches flabellate-3-5-fid ; lobes scarcely flabel- 

 late, oD-fld papillose. Fruit 3-coccous ; seeds exarillate smooth. — 

 Pale, or yellowish shrubs ; indumentum short depressed stellate ; 

 [eaves alternate petiolate penninerved or 5-plinerved subcoriaceous ; 

 itipules 0, or very minute ; male flowers in racemes or subsimple or 



' Reddish brown or reddish. 1112. 



'^ A gonuB allied to Crotogyne similar in » " 3, 4-pedale3." 



[lowers and male calyx to Jatropha Hmddulii, " A genus very imperfectly known, allied to 



[i. e. Iticiiifitlaidnm M. Auo.) difTcrs in not having C'udiaum, 



compound leaves. ' Spec. 1. P. pcndiiltis Miq. he. oil. — Crolim 



^ Spec. 2. BI. Aro. in Seem. Juurn. of Hot. peiidulus IIabsk. PI. Jav. liar. 266. 



(1861), 332. a /.;. ^,„,,,.. Xrop. 21 ; PL Wright, 160. 



" Fl. Lid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 382.— M, Auo. Prodr. 



