248 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



inwardly stigmatiferous, and sulcate afterwards strictly reflexed to 

 germen. Fruit . . . ? — A tree (?); leaves ^ alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate 

 digitate; folioles 3, siibscssile penninerved, subentire or crenulate; 

 male flowers in slender ramified spikes axillary or springing from the 

 wood of the branches of the preceding year ; branches of spikes fili- 

 form puberulate rather remotely glomeruliferons ; the female in simple 

 short few flowered rather thick spikes in the axils of the leaves of the 

 preceding year ; all bracteate and bracteolate. {North Brazil/') 



138 ? Freireodendron M. Aeg.^ — " Flowers dioecious apetalous; 

 calyx 5-fid, imbricated. Stamens 10, the exterior opposite calyx lobes 

 inserted under margin of centi'al disk ; the interior filaments as if per- 

 forating extrorsely projecting disk ; anthers basifixed introrsely rimose. 

 Germen 1-locular, 2-ovulate ; stigma sessile wide subpeltate. Fruit 

 di'upaceous, by abortion 1-spermous J seed exarillate ; cotyledons of 

 copiously albuminous embryo 3-angular-ovate penninerved, cordate 

 plane at base, longer than radicle, — A medium sized tree ; leaves 

 alternate slightly petiolate penninerved serrate-dentate ; stipules 

 deciduous ; flowers axillary glomerate ; female in glomerules as if 

 radians." {Brazil.^) 



139. Drypetes Vahl.^— Flowers dioecious apetalous; calyx 4-6- 

 partite imbricated. Stamens equal in number to petals (4-6) or twice 

 more, oftener oo ; filaments evolute, inserted roimd rudiment of ger- 

 men ^ or wider disciform '^ {liemkyclia^ Ci/clostemon ") or free ; anthers 

 2-locular ; base of long adnate and introrse or laterally rimose cells 

 always inferior. Germen surrounded by hypogynous usually cupular 

 disk; cells 1 {Hcmicyclia)^ or 1, 2 {Cyclostemon, Stenogynmm^^), or 3, 

 4 (Dodecastemon^^), 2 ovulate ; style branches short thick (Budrt/petes) 



1 Nearly of Rutacca:, Zanthoxyloti. ' Dnjpetes Auctt. 



' Spec. 1. P. IrifoUolata H. Bn. loc. cit. ' " Discus mtrastaminalis " (M. Arg). 



3 Frodi: 244 (whence the characters have ^ WianTet Aun. in. Jldiiib. >i. P/iil.Jouni.xi\. 



been selected by authors from representations). 297. — Endl. Goi. n. 5816. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 



* Spec. 1. F. sessiUJIot-um M. Ana.— Dnjpetes 562, t. 27, fig. 7, 8.— M. Aro. Prodr. 486. 

 scssilifora Allem. in £ot. Zsit. (1854), 459. ' Bl. Bijdr. 597.— Endl. Gen. n. 5837.— H. 



A genus badly known. Bx. Euphorb. 561, t. 23, fig. 22-25. — M. Arg. 



' Eclog. Amcr. ui. (1796), 49. — PoiT. in HKm. in Lviiiiva, xxxii. 81 ; Prodr. 482. — Sphragidia 



Mus. i. 152, t. 6-8.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 12.— Thw. in Hool;. Journ. (1855), 269, t. lO.—Pi/ciio- 



Endl. Gen. n. 5874. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 606, t. saiidra Bl. Mus. Luf/d.-Bat. u. 191. (11. masc). 

 24, fig. 34-40 ; in Adansoiiia, xi. 98. — M. Arg. '" M. Arg. in Linnaa, xxxii. 81. 



Prodr. 453 (incl. : Anaua MiQ. Asti/lis Wight, " Hassk. in Bot. Zeit. (1856), 803 ; in Bull. 



Cyclostenmi Bl. Dodecastemon Hassk. Hemicy- Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 716. — Pi/cnosaudra Bl. (fl. 



clia Wight ot Arn. Liparcne Poit. Pcriplexis foem.). 

 Wall. Pi/enosandra Bl. Sphragidia Thw.) 



