EVPHORBIACEM. 223 



Fragariopsis) ; male calyx-valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens go, inserted 

 ou more or less convex receptacle, either central or inserted round 

 rudiment of gynasceum ; filaments confluent at base ; anthers 

 extrorse, 4-lobed ; cells 2, aduate at apex, diverged at base, often 

 deflexed, longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 4-6-partite, im- 

 bricated. Disk urceolar, adhering to calyx, small or 0. Germen 

 3-4-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate, sometimes carinate or thickly subulate 

 at back ; style varied in form, thickly cylindrical or obovoid, or 

 obpyramidal, sometimes sublobose, stigmatiferous, subeutire or 

 shortly lobed at apex ; furrows 3, 4, radians tumido-marginate. 

 Fruit capsular ; mesocarp more or less thick or rather fleshy, solute 

 from cells of endocarp finally 2-valved ligneous ; seeds exarillate 

 albuminous. — Shrubs usually scandent ; ^ leaves alternate petiolate 

 stipulate penninerved or 3-5-nerved ; limb furnished with at base 

 2 glands and same number of stipels ; flowers in 2 -sexual axillary 

 racemes; female inferior 1- od ; others male.^ [All ivarm regions.'^) 



92. Dalechampia Plum.* — Flowers monoecious apetalous; male 

 calyx valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens subdefinite (5-10) or oftener co ; 

 filaments in central column cylindrical or subclavate, long 1- 

 adelphous, finally free; anther 2 -locular; cells longitudinally adnate, 

 extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 5-l5-partitc; leaves imbricated or 

 valvate, entire or pinnatifid. Germen ° 3-4-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; 

 style cylindrical or clavate at apex, or laterally more or less hollow 

 below apex inwardly stigmatiferous, entire or 3-6-lobed ; lobes small 

 equal or unequal, opposite cells alternating with them. Fruit cap- 

 sular 3-4-coccous elastically dehiscing ; seeds globose or ellipsoidal 



Gen. n. 5784. — A. Juss. 'Euphorh. 47. — H. Bn. Liimcea, xxiii. 110. — M. Akg. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 



Euiihorb.i'6'S.— "iH. Kuti. Prodi: 1&&.—Aiiabwna 157; in Flora (1864), 630. Griseb. Fl. Brit. 



A. Ji'ss. -E«;;(/)-4. 46, t. 15, fig. 48. — Endl. Ge«. W.-Iiid. 46. — H. Bn. in Adaiisoiiin, iii. 100 



n. 5785. — Snjoriimi, Endl. Oen. Suppl. iii. 98. [Sajorium) ; v. 309. 



— H. Bn. £«////orA. ISO.t. 21,fig. 3, 4.~7rfrfn((V;. ^ Nuv.Geii. Amer. 17, t. 38.— L. «■«. n. 1081. 



stjilus Hassk. Hurt. llo;/. Zi.—Ptirococctis'B.A&svi. — Adans. Fam. dis PI. ii. 357. — J. Ocn. 392. — 



in Flora (1842), BeiU. ii. 41 (ncc 1'ali,.). Lamk. Diet. ii. 256 ; Suppl. ii. 447; III. t. 788. 



' Some jiiivts, especiiiUy the llowor and fruit, — A. ,Iusb. Fiijikorb. 55, t. 17, fig. 59. — H. Bn. 



imbued with a purple or suljviolct juice. Enphorb. 58, 485, t. 3, fig. 16-33. — M. Aiui. 



■ Sect. 5 : 1. Euptukeiutnt (M. Alio.) ; 2. i'rodr. 1232. — Bakeu, Fl. Maurit. 316. — Cremo- 



Cyinidrojihora (M. Alio.) ; 3. Aiiabaiia (A. Juss); phijUuin Schweidl. in Flora (1843), 514 ; in Pot. 



4. Aiigoatylidimn (M. Aro.) ; 6. Ucdraiostijlus Zcit. (1849), 141. — Rhoj)alostylis Kl. MSS. (ox 



(Hassk.). II. Bn. in Adaii.ioiiia, v. 317). 



' Spec, about 10. RuMrn. Herb. Amboin. i. ' In species sect. 1, eun-oundcd with cupuli- 



193, t. 79 (AVyor).— L. Upec. 1192.— W. Spec.iv. form disk. ChampatMia (H. Bn. Etq)horb. 485, 



614.— Sm. in Nov. Act. Upml, vi. 4.— Sond. in t. 3, fig. 31, 32). 



