200 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



racemose spikes; female spicate; spike branches 1-florous at apex 

 composed of lateral and flowerless bracts ; male bracts 1-5-liorous ; 

 pedicels articulate.^ ( Cuba?) 



44 ? Pseudocroton M. Aeg.^ — " Flowers diojcions ; male calyx 

 4-partite, valvate. Petals 4, imbricate. Glands of extrastaminal 

 disk 4, free alternipetalous. Stamens 16-20; filaments free sbort 

 inserted round distinctly entire rudimentary gynpeceum; anthers 

 always erect, 2-rimose ; cells adnate longitudinally to connective. 

 Female flower. . . ?— A shrub (or tree ?) ; leaves alternate petiolate 

 minutely 2-stipulate penniuerved veined, below, or the cntii-e plant 

 protected by ferruginous angular scales ; male flowers subterminal 

 abbreviate racemulose.* {Guatemala J'y 



45. Suregarda Roxb.^ — Flowers monoecioiis or oftener dioecious 

 apetalous; receptacle rather convex. Sepals 4, 5, imbricate, un- 

 equal; the exterior sometimes {Ccralophoriis) dorsally cuciillate. 

 Stamens qo, free ; filaments erect ; the receptacle between their 

 bases outwardly sometimes slightly glandular thickened; anthers 

 adnate, extrorsely 2-rimose. Germeu surrounded by base of disk 

 shortly urceolate, and often with co stamiuodes, unequal acute, 

 2-3-locular ; style short, afterwards divided into thick short stigma- 

 tiferous lobes, 2-4-fid ; ovule in cell solitary. Fruit capsular, sub- 

 drupaceous or fleshy, with difficulty or easily dehiscing ; seed albu- 

 minous exarillate, generally smooth. — Small trees or shrubs gene- 

 rally glabrous ; leaves alternate or opposite simple coriaceous penni- 

 uerved veined ; stipules 2 ; cicatrice sometimes linear ; petiole short ; 

 flowers axillary or oftener oijpositifolious, terminal or fasciculate 

 cymose. {Trap. Asia and Oceania^ South and East Africa Ins. and Cont?) 



46. Elateriospermum Bl.* — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; 



' Resembling the genus iij'ci'jifHa and nearly (1803). — A. Juss. Ei(phi>rb. &Q. — Endl. Qcii.n. 



allied to the American sect. Touruesulia. 6883. — H. Bx. Euplwrb. 395 ; in Adiiiisonia, xi. 



- Hfed. Guis^Ti. Inc. cit.; in Nuchr.d.Kceidgl. 92. — Gcloiiium Eoxii. in W. Spec. PI. iv. 831 



GtsellscJi. d. TViss. d. (Tiiir. OwU. (1865), 175.— (1805); Fl. Ind. iii. (1832), 829, nee G.-ert.v.). 



M. Aug. Prodr. 756. — A. Juss. foe. cit. 34, t. 10.— Endl. Geii. n. 



•'i In i?fora(1872), 24. 5817.— M. Arg. Prodi: l\2&.—Eri/throcarpus 



* " Gen. ju-xta Letirocrotoiicm inserend. a quo Bl. BIjdr. 604. — Ceratophorus Son'D. in Linnaa, 



pra3tor petala evoluta et flor. 4-mero3 char, gra- xxiii. 120. — H. Bn. in Adansoniii, iii. 154. 



vior. seq. differt : recept. hand elevat. rudim. ' kSpec. ad 12. Wight, Icuii. t. 1867 {Gelo- 



pvarii cvolutura in fundo calj-cis intra stam. lib. ninm). — Mia. Fl. Iiid.-Iiat. Suppl. i. 452 (Qiio- 



nec in coluiuna .stam. insert. Habit, ot prais. ninm). H. B.v. in Adaiisoiiia, i. 252, 349 ; iii. 154. 



lepid. feiT. CrotonemsimViXiA, sod anthcra) in ala- ^ Bijdr. 620 (part.). — Enpl. Geii. n. 5800. — 



bastr. orectm et circa rudim. sitio." H. Bn. Eitphorb. 397, t. 19, fig. 26, 27 (nee 28). 



' Spec. 1. P. tmcioiim M. Aug. luc. cit. — M. Alio. Prodr. 1130. 



« Ex W. in Act. Soc. Cur. Nat. Berol. iv. 206 



