F.UPHORBIACEM. 225 



bud-shaped or sacciform, !-2-brokenly-ninose, 1-2-valved, surrouuded 

 at the base with 1 or few unequal bractlets ; ^ male flowers surrouuded 

 withiu the involucre by a few rudiments (various in form) of female 

 flowers." ( Warm America.^) 



IV. CEOTONE^. 



9-1. Croton L. — Flowers monoecious or more rarely dioecious, 4-6, 

 generally 5-mcrous ; male sepals valvate or more or less imbricate. 

 Petals imbricate or oftener finally sub-valvate, sometitnes not touch- 

 ing. Glands of disk free alternipetalous. Stamens either sub- 

 definite or definite, sometimes 10, 2-seriate or 5-8, oftener 15-co , 

 CO -seriate ; filaments free inserted in convex often villose receptacle, 

 infracto-inciu'ved in the bud ; anthers introrse (on account of the in- 

 curvation of the filaments extrorse in the bud), finally oscillating- 

 erect. Germen rudimentary, sometimes 0. Glands of hypogynous 

 disk free or connate, often thick. Germen 3- or more rarely 2- or 

 4-loeular ; ovule in cell 1 , descendent ; micropyle extrorse superior, 

 obtected by obturator ; style from base or more or less high 3-lobed 

 or partite ; branches simple 2- or 3- oo-fid inciu'ved or involute 

 stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule usually 3-coccous, sometimes with 

 difficulty or late dehiscing ; cocci 2-valved ; seeds arillate at micro- 

 pyle; cotyledons of albuminous embryo foliaceous, much wider than 

 radicle, — Trees, shrubs or undershrubs, or more rarely herbs ; indu- 

 mentum usually stellate or Icpidote ; leaves alternate or siib-verti- 

 cillate, entrre or variously incised or lobed, penninerved or digiti- 

 nerved at base ; stipules lateral, entire or more or less divided, some- 

 times glanduliform ; inflorescence terminal ; flowers in racemes or 

 spikes, simple or more or less ramified ; female in 2-sexual inflo- 

 rescence inferior 1 or few, sometimes co ; others male superior soli- 

 tary, in axils of bracts or few (x, cymose or glomerate. {All hot 

 regions.) See p. 129. 



' Often con-csponding to clefts of involucre. •'' Spec. Ifi, 17. Schkank in Ohci-r. Acad. 



- A genus remarkable for its enormous bud- Mihic/i. vii. 242 (Sjiixia). — '( H. B. K., A'ov. 



like inflorescence, formerly couHtitutinga family Geii. et. S/nc. vii. 191 [Myristica). — Maut. Ucrb. 



or section of Proacjp'ulocHnecc, (Kl.). Now 5 sect. : Fl. Bras. 270 {'Spirin). — Benth. in lluok. Joiini. 



1. Jiiipirii (H. Bn.) ; 2. A'eupei-a (GuisEii.) ; 3. (18.54), .322 {Piiidiioii). — CJuisEii. in Nuc/ii: d. 



Spixia (Le.vndu.) : 4. PmWtMjn (Sciiott), .5. jriss. Gutt. {l8Go),liiO; Fl. linl. W.-l>id. 6\.— 



Sehismatiipera (Kr..). JI. Bx. in Jdaiisoiiia, v. 222. 



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