242 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



apetalous ; ' sepals usually 5, imbricated, sometimes 6, 2-seriate 

 ( Colnieiroa.^) Glands of disk 5, alternating with sepals, free or con- 

 nate in cup or ring. Stamens 5, opposite sepals ; filaments inserted 

 round rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers 2-locular ; cells long adnata 

 introrsely longitudinally [Securinegastrum'^) or sublaterally ( Gel/uf/a*), 

 usually extrorsely (i^/Mc/7_^ca^)rimose. Gormen 2-3-locular, in male 

 flower rudimentary, 2-8-partite, sometimes radiate produced between 

 base of stamens {Neoroepera^)^ surrounded by disk (sometimes very 

 small) ;''■ cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 2, 3, stigmatiferous, 2-fid or 

 2-lobed at apex. Fruit capsular, 2-3-coccus, rarely subfleshy, and 

 finally late or with difficulty dehiscing ; sometimes more rarely 

 baccate indehiscent ; seeds smooth, often S-agonal ; cotyledons of 

 albuminous embryo flat foliaceous. — Small trees or shrubs ; branches 

 2-stichous, sometimes spinescent at apex ; leaves alternate stipulate ; 

 flowers ^ axillary in 1-2- sexual cymes or glomerules.^ {All hot and 

 temp. regions.^°) 



128. Antidesma Burm." — Flowers dioecious, 3-8- or oftener 

 5-merous ; calyx lobes free at varied height, sometimes connate nearly 

 to apex ; prsefloration imbricated. Petals usually 0, rarely more or 

 less evolute (Jntipetalum}^) Stamens usually the same in number as 

 calyx lobes, more rarely more numerous or fewer (2-4) ; filaments 



1 Petals? sometimes the very minute subu- {Adelin) ; iv. 404, n. 2 {Phyllanthus).— '^. 



late granduliform female ones are to be seen in Spec. iii. 758 (Phyllanthus) ; iv. 761 ; JEnum. 



Mcineckia which, as it seems, Aeo. scarcely PL Berol. 329 {Xylophylla) . — Spreng. Syst. i. 



denies to be constant, referring the genus to 940 ; iii. 902 {Drypetes). — Ait. Hort. Eew. i. 



Securinega. 376 {Xyl<ip!iy!lci).—SLAtiC. Fl. de Filip. 486 



- Reut. in Mim. Soc. Phys. Geiiire, x. 240, [Cicca). — Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. fi83 {Gelilera). — 



tab. — Endl. Geii. n. 5865 ' [Coilmeroa). — H. Bl. Bijdr. 580 [Fltiggea). — Schum. et Thonn. 



'Bti. Eiiphorb. 668, t. 23, fig. iG-iS.— VillaHova Besh: 415 {Phyllanthus).— A.. Rich. Tent. Fl. 



PouRR. (ex CuTAUD. Fl. Madr. 695). Abyss, u. 256.— Thw. Fmim. PL Zeyl. 2S1 



3 M. Aua. PiW;-. 447, sect. 1. {Flifg(/c(i).—'BENTH. Fl. Austral, vi. 115, 116 



■• H. Bn. Euphorb. 693, sect. 3. (Ncortepeya) . — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 80 ; ii. 



5 W. Spec. iv. 767 {Flugrjca).—&.. Juss. Eu- 41; iii. 164; v. 346. 



phorb. 16; t. 2, fig. 6.— Endl. Qen. n. 5860.— " Thes. Zcyl 22.— L. Gen. n. 1110 (part.).— 



H. Bn. Euphorb. 696, t. 26, fig. 39-47.— -Besscra J. Gen. 443.— G-^srtn. Fnict. i. 188, t. 39.— 



Spreng. Puyill. ii. 90. — Oeblera Fisch. et. Mey. Lamk. Diet. i. 206 ; Suppl. i. 402 ; III. t. 812. — 



Ind. 8em. Hort. Petrop. (1836), 28. — Endl. Gen. Endl. Gen.n. 1892. — Lindl. Vey. Eingd. 259. — 



n. 6865, Mcineckia H. IJn. Euphorb. 586. Tul. in Ann. Sc. Kat. s&. 3, xv. 182. — Schnizl. 



^ M. Arg. et F. MiiELL. Prodr. 488. Icon. faso. 6. — H. Bn. in Btdl. Soc. Bot. de Fr. 



' In Neorapcra the female flower often un- iv. 987 ; Euphorb. 611 ; in Adansonia, xi. 96. — 



equallv 3-grandular. M. Arg. Prodr. 247. — Baker, FL Maurit. 305. 



' Very small, usually greeiush or whitish. — Stilngo Schreb. in Z. Gen. ed. 8, n. 1381. — 



' A genus differing from Phyllanthus by Minutalia Fenzl. in Flora (1844), i. 312. — 



rudimentar)' gyna;ceum and male flowers. Bestram Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 354 (incl. : 



'" Spec, about 15, of which 2, 3, are American. Cyathogync M. Arg. Hieronyma 'M/LRT.Zcptonema 



p_ Bn. Jant. 355 {Acidoton). — PoiR. Diet. A. Joss. Stilaginella Tul. Thccacoris A. Jl'ss.). 



iv. 463, n. 4 {lihanmus) ; Suppl. i. 132, n. 4. '^ M. Arg. in Flora (1864), 640; Prodr. 246. 



