EUPHORBIACE^E. 218 



central ; filaments free or 1 -adelphous at base ; anthers iutroi'so or 

 extrorse. Female calyx 4-6 -partite, imbricated. Germeu surrounded 

 by cupular disk (or 0) 2-3-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate ; style more or less 

 high or nearly to base 2-3-ramose ; branches simple or 2-fid, some- 

 times 2 -partite, more rarely rather wide or subpctaloid, stigmatife- 

 rous within. Capsule sometimes outwardly rather fleshy 2-3- 

 locular ; seeds smooth or tuberculate, exarillate or scantily arillate. 

 — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate stipulate penninerved or oftener 

 3-5-pliuerved, cntii'e or more rarely dentate or crenate ; ^ flowers in 

 cymiferous or glomcruliferous spikes or racemes ; bracts often 2- 

 glaudular at base." [All hot regions ^). 



71. Mareya H. Bn.* — Flower (nearly of Jlchoniea), mona3cioiis ; 

 male calyx 3-4-partite, valvate. Stamens cc , or 8-20 ; filaments 

 inserted on small glandular receptacle ; anther cells free clavate pen- 

 dulous from glandular connective, finally ascendent, extrorsely 

 rimose ; sepals of female 4, 5 ; the exterior 2, 3, subvalvate ; the 

 interior either 2 or sometimes others smaller, imbricated. Disk 

 hypogynous evolute ; lobes sometimes unequal membraneous alter- 

 nating with germ en cells. Germen (in male flower sometimes but 

 rarely rudimentary), sessile 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style branches 

 3, oblong long papUlose-stigmatiferous. Capside 3-coccous ; seeds 

 smooth ; micropyle not at all or slightly arillate. — A tree ; leaves 

 alternate, petiolate glandular-maculate, 2-stipidate ; flowers crowded^, 

 gloraerate-spicate axillary ; the female usually in central glomerules ; 

 others male. [Trop. West Africa.^) 



72 ? Cephalomappa H. Bn ^. — Flowers monoecious apotalous ; 

 male calyx obconical, verruculose at apex, unequally 2-4-fid, valvate. 

 Stamens 2-4 (oftener 3) ; inserted on common central stipes ; other 



' Limb below at baao glandular 2-6 macu- Ind. iii. 693 (Sapium). — I'cEi'v. et Endl. iVof. 



late, hence attcrwurds often spaiingly macu- Gen. ft Sjiec. in. 18, t. 221. — Casau. Aov. Stirp. 



late. 24, n. 20. — 13exth. Niger. 507. — Ki.. in Uoo/c. 



- Sect, (ex M. Alio.) 10, soil. ; 1. Paliasija Juurn. (1843), 4G. — Grisek. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 



(U. Bn.) ; 2. Wetria (H. Bn.) ; 3. Conccveibum 40. — M. Also, in Heem. Juurii. i. 333 [I.vpidotu- 



(A. Juss.) ; 4. atipclluria (Benth.) ; 6. Orjika rus). — H. Bn., in Adaitsania, i. 73, 274, 285 



(II. Bn.) ; 7. Laurembeirjia (II. Bn.) ; 8. Sidal- {Pulissija) ; v. 307 {Aparisthmitiin) ; vi. 321 



choriica (M, Aro.) ; 9. Ctadode.s (Lour.) ; 10. iciadudta) ; xi. 175, n. 76. 



C<cleboffi/iic {Sn.) ; 11. £;<«&/io™«< (M. Aro). — 'In Adaiisuiiia, i. 73. — M. Arc. Prudr. 



To which may he added ; 5. Lrpidolurus (H. 792. 



Bn.) from its slightly canmculate seed gcneri- •' Small, whitish, fragrant, 



cally separated in Prudr. (898) and (better i) i"' One spec. M. leoncusis, very variable. — 



12. AlchunienpHiv (M. Aro. Prudr. 764), an in- M. spicatit, H. B.v, loc. cit. 74. — M. mierantha 



completely known stirpd genorically distinct M. Arq. lac. cit.—Acali/pha komiisls Bentm. 



hy its free anther ccfls, unequal valves. differ, 504. — A. micranlhn Benth. loc. oil, 



'.Spec. ad 40. II. B. Pi. .Equiii. i. 162, t. 46.— 505. 



Mart, in Flnm (1841), ii, Beibl. 31 — KoxH. Fl. In Adansoiiiii, xi. 130. 



