EaPHORBIAOEM. 201 



sepals generally 5, imbricate. Stamens X) ,' inserted on convex re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments erect ; anthers introrse apiculate, 2-rimose. Disk 

 glandular, exterior to audroceum, outwardly liu-sute. Germen 

 rudimentary central, 2-3 -fid at apex, sometimes obsolete. Female 

 calyx 5 or more rarely 5-G-merous. Disk shortly urceolate, often 

 inwardly with ao unequal stipitate staminodes. Germen 2-4:-locular ; 

 ovule solitaiy obturated ; style afterwards 2-4-lobed ; lobes thick 

 (colom-ed), stigmatiferous 2-fid. Fruit 2-4:-coccous subdrupaceous ; 

 seeds pulpose-arillate. — A tall tree ; leaves alternate, sometimes at 

 apex falsely verticillate long petiolate, 2-stipulate, above the base 2- 

 glandular, entire penninerved ; flowers in axillary or superaxillary 

 ramified cymiferous corymbiforin clusters; the female few central 

 larger. {Jav(A^ Malacca?-) 



47? Acidocroton Gkiseb. ^ — Flowers monoecious, 5-6-merous; 

 sepals imbricate. Petals contorted, rudimentary in female flower. 

 Stamens ^ ,* free, inserted on eglandular slightly elevated receptacle 

 (the apex being nearly where the rudimentary vestige of germen 

 terminates) ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose ; connective caudate ; cells 

 adnate, Germen 3-5-locular; style afterwards divided into 3-5 

 branches, fleshy -petaloid, canaliculate within, 2-fid ; ovule solitary in 

 cell. Capsule 3-5-coccous ; seeds oblong-ovOid arillate at micropyle. 

 — A diffuse shrub ; ^ leaves alternate small crowded ; stipules 2, 

 lateral elongate, spinescent ; flowers in unisexual branches terminal 

 to pulviniform twigs, solitary or io,^ cymose pedicellate. ( Cuba?) 



48. Ricinella ]\I. Arg. " — Flowers dioecious apetalous, a-merous ; 

 calyx valvate. Disk adnate to calyx more or less perigynous ; lobes 

 opposite sepals. Stamens oo (8-15), central free or 1-adelphous at 

 base; anthers 2-locular, long affixed at middle, externally 2-rimose; 

 connective narrow not produced. Germen rudimentary minute or 0, 

 in female flower 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style short central, scarcely 

 divided into 3 branches, internally papillose-laciniate. Capsule 3-coc- 

 cous ; seeds smooth subglobose exarillate ; cotyledons foliaceous wider 



' Sometimo3 8ub-definito 10-15, of which .5 are ■* Exterior altemipetalous. 



altemisepaloua, shorter ; same number opposite ' Aspect of SiCKnHcijfa spinescent. 



longer. s Spec. 1. A. adeliuides Griseb. he. cil. — A. 



- Spec. 1. E. Tiipos Bl. foe. cit.—Tslin. Ft. Aeidotoii L. (ex. M. Ako. Piudr. 924). 

 /«(/,-i?«<. i. p. ii. 412 ; Suppl. 460. 'In Liimaa, xx.xiv. 1.53; Prodi; 729. — 



' Fl. Brit. W.-Lid. 42.— SI. Aro. Prodr. Adelia L. Geii. n. 1137 (part.).— Endl. Oe,i. n. 



1042. 6825 (part.).— II. Bn. Eiiphorb. 417 (part.). 



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