EVPHORBIACEM. 247 



female flower hypogynous cupular ; gormen 2-4-cellecl ; oniles 

 2-uate ; style branches 2, 4, petaloid-dilated multi-partite reflexed 

 rigid persistent. Fruit more or less fleshy or suberous, usually 

 pyramidate-3-coccous ; seed exarUlate ; cotyledons of albuminous 

 embryo wide curved, auriculate 5-plinerved at base ; one convex, 

 the other concave. — Trees ; juice sometimes viscous resinous or cera- 

 ceous ; twigs strong subangular nodose ; leaves alternate collected 

 at summit of twigs, petiolate simple penninerved glabrous coriaceous ; 

 male flowers crowded in short capitate pedunculate catkin ^ ; bracts 

 few wide petaloid^ inserted at summit of peduncle, and the whole of 

 the bud-shaped inflorescence at first involucrato ; female axillary or 

 siipra-axillary solitary pedunculate. {Troj). East, and West. Africa 

 Cont. and Ins.^) 



136. Bischoffia Bl.* — Flowers dioecious apetalous; male nearly 

 of Hymenocardia (or Securinega) ; sepals 5, subimbricate or induplicate- 

 subcucullate. Stamens same in number opposite, inserted below 

 rudiment of short gynseceum crenulate 5-lobed at apex; anthers 

 adnate, laterally or extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 5-partite. 

 Germen 3-4-locular, surrounded at base with 4, 5, or staminodes ; 

 cells 2 -ovulate ; style branches entire recurved. Fruit subfleshy ; 

 endocarp pergamaceous, 3-coccous ; seeds exarillate scantily albumi- 

 nous. — Trees; leaves alternate petiolate pinnate- 8-foliolate ; folioles 

 crenate-dentatc penninerved petiolulate ; flowers ^ in more or less 

 ramified compound axillary racemes. {Asia and warm Oceania.^) 



187. Piranhea H. Bn.^ — Flowers, it seems, dioecious ; sepals 4-6, 

 finally patent, imbricated. Stamens o) (8-15); filaments free exserted, 

 inserted on convex receptacle ; glands intermixed nearly same in 

 number unequally-capitate shortly stijjitate ; anthers introrse sub-2- 

 dymous, longitudinally rimose. Female calyx G-partite ; folioles 2- 

 seriate imbricated. Germen surrounded at base by 6 glands (stami- 

 nodes ?) ; cells 3, opposite exterior sepals; style branches 3, subulate 



' Simulating a large flower. Journ. xiv. 298. — StylodUcus Benn. PL Jav. 



" When ilrj' red, eometimos very fragrant. Rnr. 133, t. 29. — Exdl. Gen. n. 5858'. 



' Spec, ad 7. M. Ano. in Flora (1804), 517; ^ Male very Bm.ill crowded, 



in Seem. Journ. i. 332. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, ^ Spec. 1, 2. Roxii. /'/. hid. iii. 728 {Andrach- 



\. 81 ; ii. 43 ; xi. 176. ne).— Hook. Icon. t. 844. — Wioht, Icon. t. 1880 



■ < liijdr. 1168 (Bisc/iofa). — H. Bn. Euphorb. {Microelux). — DcNE. in Jacqiiem. Voy. Bot. 152, 



694, t. 26, fig. 25-32.— M. Ano. Prodr. 478.— t. 154.— Walp. Ann. i. 624. 



Microehu Wight et Aim. in Edinb. New. Phil. ' In Adansonia, vi. 235, 1, 6. 



