204 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



seeds subglobose exarillate. {Asia,^ Oceania.^ Africa and Troj). 

 America.}) 



53. Endospermum Benth. " — Flowers dicecious apetalous. Male 

 calyx gamophyllus, uuequally-3-5-denticulate, at first slightly im- 

 bricate. Stamens 6-10, 2-seriate verticillate inserted on erect central 

 column ; fiilaments free recurved at apex ; anthers extrorsc peltate, 3- 

 4-valved. Disk vaginiform clothing base of androceum column. 

 Germen rudimentary placed at summit of column. Calyx unequally- 

 4-5-dontate. Germen 2-locular, outwardly siUTounded by hypogy- 

 nous disk ; style afterwards divided into 2 stigmatiferous lobes, diski- 

 form subsessile and alternately connate. Ovule solitary in cells ; 

 micropyle extrorse superior obtected with marginal denticulate 

 obturator. Fruit 2-merous, iudehiscent ; mesocarp thin, finally 

 separating fi-om permagentaceous endocarp ; columella ; testa of 

 exarillate seeds hard, outwardly aculeate-rugose. — Trees; leaves* 

 alternate petiolate ; 2-stipulato, penuinervcd or at base sub-3-plinerved 

 reticulate-venose, sometimes below base of limb largely 2 -glandular ; 

 indumentum stellate ; flowers in racemes or spikes axillary elongated 

 cymuliferous. (China, Malaisia, Bonieo.*) 



54. Erismanthus Wall.^ — Flowers monoecious, apetalous. Male 

 calyx oblique with compressed receptacle elongated ; folioles 5, very 

 unequal imbricated ; the posterior larger. Stamens S- 1 5 ; filaments 

 central free ; anthers introrse obtusely marginate ; cells adnate, 

 introrsely rimose. " Female sepals 5, widely foliaceous, imbricated. 

 Germen 3 -locular ; ovules'^ in cells 1, with obtm-ator ; style 3-fid; 

 branches 2-partiie stigmatiferous hii-tus-papillose at apex. Fruit . . .? " 

 — A shi'ub, as appears, scandent ; leaves opposite subsessile penni- 

 nerved, male flowers in axils of leaves or at summit of twigs in an 

 ovoid subsessile amentum ; bracts of amentum crowded, imbricate, 1- 

 florous ; flowers shortly pedicellate, laterally 2-bracteolate ; " female 

 in axillary peduncles paucibracteate, terminal and solitary."' (Ins. 

 Fcnang, ") 



' .Spocies aliout 12, of which some six are 469. 



(vomviBxm.^.) 'kUd. Fl. Iiid.-Bnt, \. -p. ii. 209. ' Cff^. n. 8011.— H. Bn. Ei(phorb. 669 {E>e- 



— Tnw. Riimi. Tl. Zei/l. 272.— Dalz. in Hook. mnnt/ms). — iil. Akg. Prndi: 1138. 



Jourii. (1851), 229 {liottlerci).—H. Bn. in Adnii- " " Omnino cuphorbiaceo." (M. Aro.) 



soHi'a, ii. 218 ; iv. 270 ; xi. 129. 7 Habit scarcely of EiiptiorhUicia; the wide 



5 Fl. Moiiffkoiiff. 30i. — M. Ana. Pi-m!): 1131. unequal base of the leaves does not indicate a 



■' By some referred to AUuritcs on account of subauriculato branch, 



entire leaves and nervation. -< Sjiec. \.E. iMiquiis Wall, hic.cit. 



* Spec, ad 4, 5. M. Aug. in Flura (1864), 



