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2-lobed at apex-. Fruit 5-coccoiis. . . . — A glabrous shrub ; leaves 

 alteruate j^etiolate, 2-siipulate, eutii-e peuniuerved ; flowers iu short 

 axillary racemes alternately cymose ; cymes in axils of bracts or 

 small leaves I -2- sexual ; female cymose or central in 2-sexiial cymes; 

 male more numerous slender and shorter pedicellate. [Insular 

 Eastern trop. jlj'ricu^ India?) See p. 142. 



114. Savia W.^ — Flowers (nearly of Wie/andia) monoecious or 

 dioecious {Eusavia'-); calyx imbricated. Petals 5, or fewer by 

 abortion, sub-orbiculate ( C%ar/f//rt -^jor narrow {Pefalodiscus* Eusavia.) 

 Disk annular {Eusavia), or of 5 glands, short thick (Chandia), some- 

 times wide petaloid (FefalodiscNs) constant. Androceum of JFidandia. 

 Female perianth and disk as in male flower. Germen 3-locular. 

 Capsular 3-locular ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds exarillate ; cotyledons 

 of albuminous embryo flat or more or less corrugate, wider than 

 albumen. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate stipulate (of 

 JFicJandia) ; flowers in racemes sometimes short cymiferous ; female 

 longer and thicker pedicellate than male ; rachis of racemes some- 

 times ancipiti-complanate. ( West. India., Malacassia/') 



115? Actephila Bi,.'' — Flowers (nearly of Savia) monoecious 

 or dioecious ; receptacle sub-plane or rather convex ; sepals and petals 

 (whence sometimes perigynous) imbricated. Disk extrastaminal, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted round rudiment of 3-lobed gynieceum ; 

 filaments free or more or less high connate ; anthers sub-globose ; 

 cells short long adnate, usually iutrorsely rimose. Perianth and 

 disk of female flower as in male. Germen'^ 3-locular ; cells 2- 

 ovulate ; obturator thick ; style branches 3, 2-fid. Capsule 3-coccatc; 

 cocci 2-valved. Seeds exarillate; albumen (), slightly mucous between 

 folds of embryo, radicle short ; cotyledons unequal thick ; one 

 dorsally convex, the other dorsally wide refracted concave at margin, 

 long sub-involved ; or sometimes {Litlwxijlon) alternately long 



1 fipcc. iv. 771 (nee Rafin.). — A. Juss. 32; in Nachr. d. Gen. Univ. Oatt. (18G5), 1G3. 



Euphtirb. 15, t. 2.— Enul. Gen. n. 5866. — H. — H. Bn. in Adanmnin, ii. 33 ; viii. 316. 



Bn. Euphorh. 669 (part.).— M. Alto. Prodi: 228 « BIjdi: 581.— Knol. Gm. n. 5867.— M. Au<;. 



(part.). I'rodr. 221. — H. Bn. in Adansoniii, vi. 360, t. 



- H. B.v. Euphorh. 570, t. 26, fig. 20-23. 10.— E:t/w.i:i/luii Endl.- (?(.•«. n. 5863.— H. Bx. 



' H. Bn. Inc. cil. itli. Euphorh. 690. — Aiiomospermum Daiz. in Soolc. 



* H. Bn. hjc. cit. .571, t. 22, fig. 11-14. Jniini. (1851), 22S. 



' Spoc. ad 12. Sw. Prodr. 100 ; Fl. hid. Occ. ' Soinotimes surrounded at base by sterile or 



1179 {Cratuii). — SruENO. Si/.it. iii. 903. — A. fertile stamens, 1- or luw with short filament 



Rich. Ciiho, iii. 216, i. 70 {Phijltaiithun). — and e.\trorse anther. (Adansoiiia, vi. t. 10, 



Griseii. pi. Wright. 157 j Fl. lirit. W.-Ind. fig. 6.) 



