EUPHOKBIACE^. 207 



free inserted on convex receptacle glandular-incrassate and alveolate- 

 cingent between their bases in bud straight or more or less plicate 

 flexuose ; antlicr 2-locular rimose ; inferior introrse, others introrse 

 or oftener extrorse. Female calyx often 5 -partite, quincuncially 

 imbricated. Germen 3-lociilar ; ovules solitary ; style erect, afterwards 

 3 -fid ; branches entii'c recurved or revolute, incrassate at apex or 

 subjjellate and inwardly densely stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous ; 

 seeds albubinous exarillate smooth subglobose. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate (large) elongate penninerved exstipidate, articulate 

 at base ; flowers in axillary or subterminal raceiues 1 or 2-sexual 

 bracts 1- or eymose-pluritlorous ; female flower often 1, terminal.^ 

 (Trop. West. Africa, Malacassia.") 



61 ? Mabea Aubl.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous eglandular, 

 receptacle rather convex. Sepals 4-6, free or shortly connate at 

 base, valvate or subimbricate,* afterwards not contiguous. Stamens go ; 

 filaments erect, short, slightly dilated, subrecui-ved at apex ; anthers 

 extrorse ; cells adnate rimose. Female sepals 5, 6, 2-seriate imbricate. 

 Germen sessile, 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style long conical, 3-fid 

 at apex; branches inwardly stigmatiferous reciu'ved or revolute. 

 Capsules 3-coccous ; seeds arillate at superior micropyle. — Trees or 

 shi'ubs, often scandent; leaves alternate 2-stipulate shortly petiolate 

 simple penninerved denticulate ; limb sometimes 2-glandular at base ; 

 flowers generally racemose ; inferior female few or ; female bracts 

 1-florous ; male 1- co-florous, furnished at base with 2 glands laterally 

 elongate large thick (coloiu'ed) ; male pedicels cymose, free or more 

 or less high common stipitate." ( Warm America.^) 



62. Conceveiba Aubl.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx 3, 4-i)artite, valvate. Stamens oo, inserted on the rather 



' Genus scarcely distinct from Echinus by its * Gen. placed between Hippumaiie and £xc<e- 



disciferous receptacle, habit and inflorescence. caria in Prodromus. 



■ Spec, about 8. H. Bs. in Adansonia, i. 09, '' Spec, about 15. Maht. Riis. ; in Lviiicca 



256; xi. 176.— M. Aro. in Flora (1864), 483. (1830), 39.— Benth. Sulph. 16.5 ; in Hook. Joiirn. 



5 Ouian. 867, t. 334.— J. Gen. 388.— Pom. (1854), 304.— M. Akg. in Flora (1872), 44.— 



Die/, iii. 663. — Lamk. III. t. 773. — A. Juss. H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 370. 



Eup/iorl/. 40, t. 13.— Endl. Gen. n. 5798.— H. ' Guiaii. ii. 923, t. 353.— A. Jrss. Euphorb. 



Bs. Eup/iotb. il2, t. 13, fig. 19-28.— M. Abo. t. 13, fig. 42 B.— Benth. in jffof/A-. /««•/.. (1854), 



Prodr. 1148. 331.— H. Bn. Eiiplmrb. 414, t. 21, fig. 12, 13.— 



" Lacinise calicis utriusque sexua imbri- M. Aro. in Litmaa xxxiv. 166 ; Prodr. 895 



cativffi." (Aro.). (part.). — Conetveibum^Kn. [ex A..3\:s». op. cit. 



43). 



