EUPHOEBIACEX. 231 



female solitary pedunculate, axillary to leaves or lateral to base of 

 male spikes. {Trop. West Africa and America}) 



105. Ophthalmoblapton Allem.'^ — Flowers monoecioiis ; male 

 calyx urceolar, perforated depressed at apex. Stamen 1, central 

 situated at bottom of calyx ; filament erect ; anthers apiculate, 2- 

 locular, longitudinally rimose. Female sepals 6, thick erect, 2-seriate 

 imbricated, unequal ; interior dorsally subcarinate or costate. Germen 

 3-locular ; cells opposite exterior sepals; ovule solitary; micropyle 

 extrorse superior, obtected by small obturator ; style erect columnar 

 incrassate, concave and inwardly stigmatiferous at apex; opening 

 shortly 3-agonal, o-labiate. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds glabrous 

 exarillate ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo wide foliaceous, digiti- 

 nerved at base. — A large tree ; juice milky acrid ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate oblong-lanceolate, pemiinorved veined large dentate coria- 

 ceous ; stipules (as appears) small caducous ; buds of branches 

 terminal thick hemispherical resinous ; flowers ^ in axillary subsimple 

 or ramified sy)ikes ; inferior spikes few or 1, female rather larger; the 

 remaining superior male flowers solitary or glomerulate and spring- 

 ing from the buds of the rachis mouth-shaped from a transverse 

 aperture. {North BragiU) 



lOG. Tetraplandra H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious ; male calyx 

 unequally-3-o-partite, imbricated. Stamen 1, 4-locular, or with 2 

 anthers inserted at summit of central column dilated and articulate 

 at base, long adnate ; cells longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 5- 

 partite imbricated. Germen 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style erect, 

 afterwards 3-fid; lobes simple recurved patiilate, inwardly much 

 plumose-stigmatiferous. Fruit. . . . ? — A tree ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, 2-stipulatc ; limb at base 2-glandular penninerved ; flowers 

 monojcious ; male amentiform- spicate, bracts scariose, 1-flowered, at 

 first connate falsely involucrate ; female at apex of branches solitary 

 or few sessile, surrounded by few glandular bracts. (Brazil.''') 



I Spec. 2, 3. W. JSiiiim. PI. Sort. Bcrol. 997. ^ Luteo-vircscent. 



— Trss. Fl. Ant. iv. 21. — Descourt. Fl. Ant. ■* Spec. 1. 0. macrojyhyllum Ali.em. loc. nt. — 



t. 12 1.— H. Bs. in Adanmnia, i. 77 ; v. 344. Walp. Ann. iii. 361. 



■ In Guttiitthar. (dec. 1819), n. 4, c. ic. ; in ' Etiphorb. .549, t. 5, fig. 8-10 ; in Ann. Sc. 



Jinn. Sc. Niil. sir. 3, xiii. 119; in JSot. Zeit. 2V^(i<. eer. 4, ix. 200.— M. Alio. P/orfr. 1230. 



(1854), 457. — Jl.'ii.Euphorb.oiT ;\ix Adansonla, "Spec. 1. T. Leandri H. Bn. he. cit.; in 



xi. 126.— M. Aug. Pr6(/r. 1155. Adamonia.v. SH. 



