EUPHORBIACEM. 249 



or subpeltate dilated {Stenogynmm)^ sometimes reniform-discoid {Hemi- 

 ci/clia)^ or more rarely filiform [Dodecastemon). Fruit globose, ovoid or 

 rarely [Astylis'^) angular, semifleshy, finally coriaceous or subcrusta- 

 eeous, indehiscent ; endocarpof cells l-5-osseous, coriaceous, or more 

 rarely {Astylis) subehartaceous.- {All trop. regions.^) 



140. Putranjiva "Wall.* — Flores dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 

 2— 5-partite ; leaves slightly or sometimes closely imbricated {Palcnga^) 

 or contorted. Stamens 2, 3, alternating with petals, equal in number 

 to them ; fi^lamenls central, free or 1-2-adelphous ; anthers thick 

 subglobose or ellipsoidal, extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 3-6-par- 

 tite ; germen 2-3-locular ; ovules in cell 2-nate descendent ; micro- 

 pyle extrorse rather thick obturated ; style afterwards divided into 

 2, 3, branches stigmatiferous at apex subreniform [Palenga) or wide 

 obversely S-angular-dUated. Fruit indehiscent subdrupaceous, finally 

 dry, by abortion 1-locular ; endocarp bony ; embiyo of solitary seed 

 copiously albuminous ; cotyledons subplane digitinerved at base. — 

 Trees ; ^ leaves alternate petiolate stipulate penninerved reticulate- 

 venose ; flowers ^ male axillary cymose or glomerate ; female longer 

 pedicellate solitary or few cymose. {East India.^) 



141. Longetia H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious; sepals 6, 2-seriate 

 imbricated ; exterior shorter and thicker, sometimes dorsally subcar- 

 niate. Stamens co , or subdefinite (2-6) ; filaments inserted on rather 

 convex ^° receptacle, central often flexuose or folded, and genuflexo- 

 produced beyond anther ; anthers extrorse ; cells finally discrete 

 above, rimose. Calyx of female flower nearly as in male ; exterior 



' Wight, Icon. t. 1992. — Anaua Miq. Tl. Iconogr. t. 19. — Tul. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, 



Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 410. xt. 252.— H. Bn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. iv. 



* Sect. 6: 1. Dodecastemon (ITassk.) ; 2. Ci/- 991 ; Eiiphorb. 641. — Schxizl. Iconogr. fasc. 6. 

 eloffemon Bl.) ; 3. Stenogijnium {M. Akg.) ; 4. — M. Arg. P/Wr. 443. — Pongolnm Hhesd. Rort. 

 Eiidrypetes (H. Bn.) ; 5. Astylis (Wight) ; 6. Malah. vii. t. 59.—Nagei<z Eoxb. Fl. Lid. iii. 

 Hemicijclia (Wight et Arn.). 766 (nee G.ektx.). 



' Spec, about 34. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 329 s Thw. in Hook. Journ. (1856), 270, t. 7, fig. 



(ScA<j/er/«).— Rich. Cuba, 218.— Thw. Fnum. c.—K. Bn. Fuphorh. 649. 



PI, Zeijl. 286 (Cgclostemm), 287 [Hemicyctia).— « Wood hard. 



Gbiseb. in Nfichr.d. Kwn. Ges. Un. Ocett. (1865), ^ Greenish or rather purple. 



165 ; Veg. d. Karaib. 24 ; Fl. Brit. W.-lnd. 32. » Spec. 3 v. 4. Wight, Icon. t. 1876.— Koyle, 



— Mkj. Fl. Ind. Bat, i. p. ii. 360.— M. Aug. in ///. Himnl. 347, t. 83 tw.— Thw. Enum. PI. 



Flora (1864), 517, 631 {Cgclosteinon) ; in Linnaa, Zeyl. 287. 



xxxii. 81.— Benth. jf^;. Austral, vi. 117 [Hemicy- « In Adansonia, ii. 228 ; vi. 352, t. 9 ; xi. 100 . 



elia). — H. Bn. in Adansonia,vi. 330 {Bemicyclia). — M. Aug. Prodr. 244. 



* Tent. Fl. Vepal. 61. — Endl. Oen. n. 1894; '" Sometimes pilose at apex. 



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