206 NATUEAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



58. Trewia L/ — Flowers clicecious apetalous; receptacle shortly 

 conical. Male sepals 3, 4, free or connate at base, valvate. 

 Stamens co ; filaments free or connate at base ; anthers erect, 

 2-locular ; exterior usually extrorse ; others introrse or laterally rimose. 

 Female calyx 3-4-merous, valvate or slightly imbricate at apex, gamo- 

 phyllous at base afterwards unequally-broken, sometimes reflexed at 

 anthesis. Germen sessile ; cells 3, 4, 1-ovulate ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior obtected by obturator ; style erect, afterwards divided into 3, 

 4, elongate, inwardly stigmatiferous, much papillose branches. Fruit 

 indehiscent suberose ; endocarp hard subosseous ; seeds exarillate 

 glabrous copiously albuminous. — A tree ; leaves opposite or subalter- 

 uate petiolate, 2-stipulate, penninerved, digitinerved at base ; stipules 

 linear-subulate, very caducous ; flowers racemose or spicate.^ (Sou/hern 

 Asia cont. and ins?) 



59 ? Lasiocroton Griseb.* — Flowers dicecious apetalous ; calyx 

 5-partite, valvate. Stamens oo, central, inserted on rather convex 

 receptacle ; filaments free ; anthers erect, 2-locular, longitudinally 

 rimose. Germen 3-locular, surrounded at base with thick hypogynous 

 disk; cells 1-ovulate; style branches 3, short thick, inwardly 

 sulcate, inflexed lobulate at margin. Capsules de^jressed-globose, 

 3-dymous; seeds smooth exarillate. — A tree ; leaves alternate petio- 

 late penninerved, digitinerved at base, reticulate-veined tomentose; 

 hairs simple ferruginous ; male fiowers in short densely glomerate 

 spikes ; female in elongated racemes naked below. {Jamaica}) 



60. Pycnocoma Benth.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of 

 Echinus) ; male calyx 3-5-partite, valvate. Stamens oo ; filaments 



» Gen. 152.— LiNDL. Nat. Sijst. ed. 2, 174 ; Prodr. 955 (part.)- 

 Veff. Kingd. 17i. — TiLij. in £ric/is. Arch. vii. 269. * Spec. 1. L. mticrophyllun Griseb. he. cit. 



— Endl. Ge)i. Suppl. iii. 98. — H. Bn. Euphorb. — Croton macropliyllus Sw. Pmdr. 100 ; Fl, Ind. 



408, t. 18, fig. 18-23.— M. Arg. Prodr. 963.— Occ. 1196.— W. Spec. iv. 549.— Geis. Crot. Moii. 



Jioltlera W. in Owtt, Diar. Hist. Nat. i. 8, t. 3 54. Spec, altera, soil. L. priiuifolius Griseb. 



(nee KoxB.). — Tetragustris GiERTN. Fruct. ii. (in Nachr. d. Keen. Ges. Gcett. (1865), 175. — 



130, t, 109, fig. 5. Crotov pruiiifolius Vahl, ex Geis. Moii. 47) 



^ A genus scarcely suiEciently distinct from seen by us in the herbarium of Lambert, it would 



Echinus on account of its gyna^'ceum and non- seem not to be of this genus, but much rather a 



capsular fruit. true species of Crotuii ; indumentum of leaves and 



^ One species very similar, viz., T. nudiflora L. germen lopidote ; style branches 2-fid.^^^lence X. 



Spec. ed. 3, App. 1661. — T. maerophylla Roth, macophyUus a.\>x\ea.raaX\i(;(iio Miibea imA Ecliimis, 



Nor. PI. 373. — T. macrustachya Kl. Iteis.Pr. JJ'iil- thence to RiciiieUa, Beniardia (.and Pseudo- 



(fc«i. 117, t. 23. — TelruyastrisosseaGAiHTH.loe.eit. croton?) Flowers and fruit, as in TournesoUa 



— Jiottlera indica W. foe. cit. — A. Juss. Euphorb. colouring water a purple-violet. 

 t. 9, fig. 29 C.—li. Ropcriaiia, Bl. herb.— ^ Niger, 508.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 410.— M. 



Caiiscki Rheeu. Uort. Malah. i. 76, t. 42. Arg. Prodr. 950. 



* Fl. Brit. W.-liid. i. 4G (part.).— M. Akg. 





