2in NATURAL HISTORY UF PLANTS. 



curialis) ; calyx valvate or slightly imbricated, 3-partite. Gynse- 

 ceum as in Mercurialis. Germen cells 3, alternating with sepals, 1- 

 ovulate; style branches linear-lanceolate, stigmatiferons within. 

 Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds subglobose scantily arillate. — Humble 

 herbs prostrate thin-stemmed scandent ; leaves alternate membrane- 

 ous, crenate-dentate or lobed, 2-stipulate ;^ flowers axillarywith rudi- 

 mentary twigs ; male solitary or few ; female solitary, finally much 

 longer pedunculate.- (Chili, Equatorial Andes, Magellan Alps, 

 Island of J. Fernandez ^). 



66. Mercurialis T.^ — Flowers moncecious or dioecious, apetalous, 

 usually 3-merous; male calyx valvate. Stamens definite (7V«5;He- 

 gista,° yS'e/t/eZ/rt ''), alternating with sepals (2, 3) or subindeflnite, 

 usually CO {Linozosiis,'^ Claoxt/lon,^ Erijth'ococca ^ ) ; filaments cen- 

 tral free inserted on rather convex receptacle ; anther cells 2, rimose, 

 free, from the first (C/ao.r//k>n) or more or less late erect ; sometimes 

 but rarely adnate to the connective (Seide/ia, Adenocline). Glands or 

 CO (possibly glanduliform staminodes ?) inserted on receptacle usually 

 exterior to fertile stamens. Female calyx valvate or slightly 

 imbricated. Germen 2-3-locular; cells 1-ovulate ; style branches 

 same in number, papillose stigmatiferous within. Glands of hypo- 

 gynous disk alternating with germen cells and equal in number to 

 them, either linear {Limsotis) or more or less widely squamiform, 

 sometimes very small ( Claoxylon). Fruit 2-3-coccous ; seeds thinly 

 arillate at micropyle or more rarely on both sides. — Herbs or under- 

 shi-ubs sometimes small shi'ubs {Erythrococca), shi'ubs or trees 



1 Small, insignificant, greenish. Lui)liorb. 456, t. 9. fig. 6. — M. Ahg. Frodi: 1139. 



' A genus very nearly allied to Mercurialis. — Dipluatylis Sond. in Zinneea, xxiii. 113. — Tri- 



^ Syec. \. B. ghchtimoides Isl. XuG. — B. Gay- antlicma Spken-g. MSS. (e.x Turcz. loc. cit.). 



and H. Bn. lie. cit. — Sijdrncotiilf </leciomaid<s Stamen cells in sect, often not free, but longi- 



KicH. Muii. Mydrocot. n. \i, t. .58, fig. 17. — DC. tuilinally adnate to connective on both sides. 



Prudr. iv. I~0—Bouksia crenata Desvx. — Mo- 6 jj Bj,_ Ejipkoyi^ 460, t. 9, fig. 7. — M. Aeq. 



Una Chilensis C. Gat. — Mirabdlia glectiomoides Prod. 947 (Trai/ia sect. 11). 



Bert. Herb. 'Exdl. loc. cit. a. — H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, iii. 



^ Imt. 534, t. 308.— Adans. I'm/I. dts PI. ii. I'o.—McrciiHalis M. Aeo. Prodr. 794. 



354.— J. Om. 385.— GaiRTN. Fnwt. ii. 114, t ^ ^y. Juss. £itpliorb. i3, t. li, fig. 43.— Exdl. 



107,— PoiR etDESROUSS. Bid. iv. 116; Suppl. Gen. n. 5790.— H. Bx. Euphorb. 491, t. 20, fig. 



iii. 665.— Lamk. III. t. 820.— Spach, Suit, d, 20-24. — M. Aug. in ZiH«a;«, xxxiv. 163 ; Prodr. 



Buffun, ii. 520. — Endl. Gen. n. 5786. — A. Juss. 775 (incl. : Athroaiidra Hook. f. in Joiirii. 



Euphorb. 4G, t. 14, fig. 47. — Xees, Gen. fasc. 3. linn. Soe. vi. 21 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 317. — 



— Payer, Organog. 525, t. 110. — H. Bn. Fu- Fiiclaoxylon M. Aho. Adenoclaoxylon Id. Arq. in 



phorb, 488, t. 9, fig. 12-29 ; in Adaiisonia, iii. Flora (1864), 436, Biscoclaoxyloii M. Aho. loc. 



175. — M. Arg. Prodr. 794 (incl. ; Adenocline cit. 437, GymnoclcKxyUni M. Aro. m Linnaa, 



Turcz. Claoxylon A. Juss. Erythrococca Benth. xxxiv. 169) — Erythrochilus Visvsw . mBl.Bijdr. 



Linozostis Endl. Micrococca Benth. Pura^<:)to- 615. 



dine M.Aro. &irf<//«H.BN. Trismegista End[,.). ' Benth. Niger, 506. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 437, 



' Endl. loc. ctt. h.— Adenocline TuRCz. in t. 21, fig. 10.— M. Akg. Prudr. 790.— Fry- 



Hull. Mosc. (1843), 59 ; (1852), ii. 179.— H. Bn. thranthe H. Bn. Euphorb. 490. 



