236 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



spirally many times convolute. — Trees or small trees ; leaves 

 alternate peuninerved entire stipulate ; flowers proceeding from 

 axillary buds ; male cymose few or ; female longer and thicker 

 pedicellate mixed with male few or solitary cymose.' {South Asia 

 and tro2>. Oceania}) 



116 ? Discocarpus Kl.'^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Actephila); 

 receptacle slightly concave. Sepals 5, sub-perigynous,' imbricated. 

 Stamens inserted round nuliment of gyna^cenm not produced ; 

 anthers iutrorse oblong, afterward exsertcd. Female calyx 5-phy lions. 

 Petals evolute, rudimentary or partly wanting. Extrastamiual dislc, 

 staminodes gynasceum ovules and capsule of AdepliiUi ; seeds mem- 

 branoous-arillatc ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo foliaceous 

 plicate or sub-convolute. — Trees; twigs spinesccnt at apex ; flowers 

 axillary ; male gloinerulate ; female flowers cymose very shortly 

 pedicellate.* {Troj). Sotiih Jmrrica ^) 



117. Amanoa Aubl.^ — Flowers monoecious or more rarely 

 dioecious 5-meroiiis rarely 3-6-merous; recejitacle more or 

 less sometimes little {Eiunnanou,^ Sienonia,^ Penfahrachium^^) 

 concave and cupular. Perianth inserted at margin of re- 

 ceptacle more or less high perigynous ; sepals much imbricated 

 or obliquely cut at margin sub-valvate {Euamanouj Pentahra- 

 c/mmi), oftener all valvate (BrideUa,^^ Lehidierojms^^^ Stenonia, 



1 A genus imich allied to Savia (pi ■which it Bid. i. 114 ; III. t. 767. — Adr. Jrss. Euphorb.\5, 



might ho a section ?), differs hy usually slight t. 2,Cg. 6. — Endl. Gen. n. 5862. — Yi.Bs.Euphorb. 



perigynous character, alhumcn scarcely mucous 579, t. 26, fig. 48-50; in Adaiisonia.-xi. 115. — 



or 0, cotyledons large plicate or largo and M. Arg. Piodr. 219, 1269 (inch : £ridelia W. 



spirally convolute. Cinidelabiia HocHST. Ckistaiithus Hook. f. 



- Spec, ad 8. Wight, Icon. t. 1910. — Mia. LcbidUra Tl.'B-s. LciidierupsisN. Aim. Leiopi/xu 



Ft. Iiid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 356. — -Thw. Einim. 11. MiQ. Micropctnlum Poit. Nanopetulum Hassk. 



Zvyl. 280. — Hassk. Hort. Bog. 243 {Sai-ia). — Ptntiibrttchion M. Arg. PciUamciia Kl. Stciionia 



LiNDL. Cull. t. 9 [Seciiriiuija). — H. Bn. Euphorb. H. Bn. Zarcoa, Llan.). 



571 (Sari(i). — M. Arg. in Liiinaitt, xxxii. 77; ' H. Bn. Euphorb. 580, sect. 1. — Amanoa 



xxxiv. 65 {LUIio.rijloii). — Benth. Fl. Austral. M. Arg. Prodr. 219. 

 vi. 88.— H. Bn. m Adaiisonia, v\. ZZO. « H. Bn. Euphorb. 578, t. 22, fig. 2-9; in 



^ In Ericlis. Arch. vii. 201, t. 9, fig. C ; m Adiinsonia, xi. 116. — M. Aeg. Prodr. 511. 

 Sooh: Juurn. (1843), 52.— Endl. Oe>i. n. 68641. lo M. Arg in Flora (1864), 532 ; Prodr. 223. 



— H. Bn. Euphorh. 585, t. 22, fig. 1.— M. Arg. " W. Spec. iv. 979.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 26, 



Prodr. 223. t. 7, fig. 22 (B/ifAZ/ff).— Endl. Gen. n. 5839.— 



■• Usually unequal. H. Bn. Euphorb. 582, t. 25, fig. 25-33.— M. 



■' A genus much better made a section of Arg. Prodr. 492. — Zarcoa Llan. in Mem. Ac. 



AcUpl ila or referred to Amanoa. Cieuc. Madrid, iv. 501. — Cuiidelabria Hochst. in 



' Spec. 2. M. Aug. in Liiinau, xxxii. 78.— Fl>ra (1843), i. 79. — Pcntamerla Kl. ex H. Bn. 



H. r>N. in Adunmnia, v. 345. in Adoumiiia, ii. 39, 



' Guiun. i. 256, t, 10. — J. Gen. 437. — Lamk. '^ M. Arc. in Liiinaa, xxxii. 79; Prodr. 609. 



