220 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLAN'IS. 



or 6-8 ; tlie 2-4 interior, alternating with the exterior ; filaments 

 free inserted round rudiment of gynseceum, entire or rarely 2- 3 -fid 

 {Eucephalocroton^) genuflexo-plicate-produced in bud, finally erect and 

 exserted ; anthers in bud and after unfolding always introrse, longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Female calyx 4-6-fid or partite, imbricated. 

 Germen 3-locular ; glands of hypogynous disk same in number, 

 alternating with calyx lobes coloured ( Chloradetiia ") or {Eucephalo- 

 croton^ Adenochlccna ^) ; cells 1-ovulate ; style branches u-regularly 2 

 or 2-3-chotomous ramified ; twigs papillose-stigmatiferous. Capsule 

 3-coccous ; seeds subglobose exarillate. — Small trees or shrubs ; 

 indumentum usually stellate ; leaves alternate or subopposite petio- 

 late stipulate reticulated ; male flowers terminal glomerate-capitate ; 

 the female below or at remote axils few solitary or pedunculate. 

 (Troj). Asia, Ind. Arch., Eastern Cent, and Ins. Africa."^) 



y5 ? Ccelodepas Hassk.^ — " Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx 3, 4-fid valvate; the female 4-10-partite. Stamens 5-6; 

 exterior alternating with the sepals ; filaments thick inserted round 

 rudiment of gynaeceum; anther cells pendulous, free below, in- 

 trorsely rimose. (iermen 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; posterior 2; 

 style branches 3, wide, 2-lobed ; lobes inciso-plurideutate palmate 

 expanded. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds exarillate ; embryo (coloured) 

 albuminous." — A Javanese tree ; leaves alternate stipulate simple 

 largly serrate, 2-glandular at base ; flower in slender spikes, some- 

 times ramified at base ; the inferior 1, 2, female ; peduncles stellate- 

 tomentose ; male bracts oo -florous," {Java.') 



86. Symphyllia H. Bn.** — Flowers monoscious (nearly of Ccpliah- 

 croton) ; male calyx valvate, 3-6-partite. Stamens same in number 

 (of Cephalocroton) alternating with the sepals, inserted below 

 rudiinent of gynjeceum ; anthers 2-locular ; cells introrsely 

 rimose longitudinally adnate, basifixed imbedded, below to a con- 

 siderable extent fi-ee, always erect, emarginate on both sides. 



' M. Arg. Protlr. 761, sect. 2. B.\. in Adansonia, i. 276. 



2 H. Bn. Eupliorh. 471, t. 19, fig. 24, 25.— M. <• In Flora (1857), 531; in Setmia, 44; in 



Aug. Piodr. 760, sect 1. — Adeuogijnum Eeichb. Bull Soc. Bot. de Ft: vi. 713. — M. Aug. Prodr. 



F. et ZoLL. Ov. Soort. v. Rottl. 20 ; in Liimcea, Tb^.—Eoilodepas Hassk. in Bol. Zcit. (1856) 802. 



xxvui 325, 1 A genus whose flower.s are unknown to us, 



' BvN. MSS. ex H. Bn. Euphorb. 472. — M. but from description it might be better reduced 



Aso. Prodr. 762, sect 3. — Ccntrostijlis H. Bn. to a section of Oju/wfocra^o", differing by partly 



Eiiphorb. 469, t. 2, fig. 28, 29. free anther ceUs. 



I Spec, ad 6. Hassk. Horl. Bog. cd. nov. 28 ? Spec. 1. C. baiitamnse UissK. loc. eit. 



{Adeiiogi/imm). —Kl. in P,L Mosmmb. Bot. 99. » Euphorb. 473, t. 11, fig. 6, 7.— M. Arg. 



Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 270 {Adenochlaim).—B.. Prodr. 763. 



