EUPHORBIACEM. 245 



131. Richeria Yahl.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous; sepals 3-5, 

 imbricate. Stamens same in number opposite inserted round rudi- 

 mentary gyneeceum ; filaments finally long exserted and twisted ; 

 anthers oblong iutrorse {Guarania"\ or extrorse {Podocaiyx^)^ longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Glands 5, alternating with stamens siuTounding 

 base of rudimentary gynasceum. Disk of female flowers usually 

 lU'ceolate. Germen o-locular ; ovules 2-nate ; obtiu-ator usually 

 thick ; style branches 3, short, rather wide caniculate within, revo- 

 lute at margin, at apex sub-2-lobed. Capsule 3-coccous ; cocci solute 

 from columella 3 -winged above ; valves dehiscing from base; seeds 

 albuminous. — Trees ; leaves alternate simple penninerved, sometimes 

 denticulate above petiolate 2-stipulate ; male flowers * in axillary 

 glomeruliferous spikes or racemes ; female at base of branches 

 spicate. {South America^ Antilles.^) 



132 ? Dissiliaria F. Muell." — Flowers dioecious (?) ; male oo- 

 androus (?). Female calyx 6-8-phyllous ; foliolos 2-seriate im- 

 bricated ; the interior larger. Germen surrounded by cupular disk 

 sometimes denticulate at base ; cells 3, 4, opposite exterior sepals; 

 ovules in each 2 ; obturator thick ; style branches 3, entii'e or sub- 

 entire recurved, inwardly stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-4-coccous ; 

 exocarp thick solubilc ; cocci 1-2-spermous ; seeds exai'illate albu- 

 minous. Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or more rarely 3-nate, 

 entire or crenulate, penninerved reticulate; female flowers in 

 terminal simple or cymiferous racemes.'' {Australia.^) 



133. Hymenocardia Endl.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous (nearly 

 of Antidesma or Ajwrosa) ; calyx 5- or more rarely C-7-dentate, 

 valvate or subimbricate. Stamens same in number inserted round 

 base of entire rudiment of gyna3ceum ; anthers ovoid introrse ; cells 

 longitudinally adnate, longitudinally rimose. Gormen compressed, 

 2-locular; cells 2-ovulate; style branches 2, subfree elongated long 



' EcUg. Amer. i. 30, t. 4. — A. Jvss. Eupkorb. {Guarania); vi. 16. 

 16.— Endl. Gm. n. 6861.— H. Bn. Ei(pharb. « E.ic H. Bn. in ^(^ffnwHiff, vii. 356, t. 1. 



597. ' Cfr. Choriceras (p. 240, n. 124.) 



2 H. Bn. Euphorb. 598. s gpeg, 2, 3. H. Bn. luc. cit. 359.— Benth. 



3 Kl. va Erivhs. Arch. (1841), vii. 202 j in Ft. Austral, vi. 90. 



Book. Land. Joiini. ii. 52.— H. Bn. Euphorb. ' Gen. n. 1899. — TuL. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 



597. 3, XV. 256.— H. Bn. in Bull. Soc. Sot. tie Fr. 



* Small crowded. iv. 994 ; Euphorb. 699, t. 27, fig. 24, 25.— M. 



* Spec. 2, 3. W. Spec. iv. 1122.— R(EM. ct Ako. in Flora (1804), 618; Prodr. 476.— 

 ScH. Si/sl. V. 271. — Pucpi'. ct Endl. Nov. Gen. Samaropyxis Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 464, 

 et Spec. iii. 22, t. 22G (^m«ho«)._C}iu9E!i. Fl. 621. 



Brit. W.-Ind. 31.— n. BN.in Adansonia, v. 347 



