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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



male in densely composite-ramified racemes ; female in a cushion 

 shortly potiolate, {South Africa}) 



145 ? Daphniphyllum Bl." — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; calyx 

 3-10-partite, imbricated ; male deciduous. Stamens co (r5-20) ; fila- 

 ments free central, radiate ascendent from base (subumbellatc) ; 

 anthers usually compressed, sometimes 4-agonal ; cells longitudinally 

 adnate, sublaterally rimose. Germen sometimes surrounded by 4-6- 

 glandular disk, 2-locular ; ovules 2-nate descendent ; micropyle ex- 

 trorse superior ; obturator rather thick ; style branches usually very 

 short ; disk-sbaped-reniform, stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit more or 

 less fleshy or subbaccate ; endocarp sometimes ehartaceous or fibrous ; 

 seeds 1,2, exarillate ; cotyledons of much shorter albuminous embryo 

 narrow subplane or semicylindrical shorter than radicle. — Trees or 

 shrubs; leaves alternate petiolate simple entu'e or dentate penni- 

 nerved reticulate-veined ; stipules small or iuconspicuous ; flowers 

 axillary racemose ; male pedicels articulate, deciduous.^ [Asia and 

 N. warm Oceania, troj). W. Africa}) 



146. Phyllanthus L,^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous; sepals 

 usually 5, 6, more rarely 4 [Cicca,^ Epistijlium^ Eriococcus^ Sccpamiu ^), 

 or 7-9, free or moi-e or less high connate, 2-3- seriate imbricate. 



' Spec. 1. S. (jlohosa Vahl et Lamb. he. cit. 

 — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iii. 163. — C'roton Bukm. 

 Afr. 122, t. 46. — Jatropha cjlobosaGrMicts. Fritct. 

 ii. 122, t. 109, fig. 3. — Toricndeiiiirou capeiisc 

 Thunh. loc. cit. 



- Bijdr. 1153.— Endl. Gen. n. 57.55.— H. Bn. 

 Euphorb. 664, t. 21, fig. 25-27.— M. Akg. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. sect. i. 1. — Ootighia Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1877, lil^i.— Gyroiidi-a Wall. Cat. n. 

 8020 (nee Geis.). 



■* A genug distinct from KnphorhiacciC on 

 account of short embryo and other characters, 

 with some constituting a separate order ( Daph- 

 niplnjthiccce BI. Arg.), formerly doubtfully re- 

 duced to -fi//«OTHacf« (Bl.). 



3 Spec. 12, 13. Benth. FL Hongk. 316.— M. 

 Aug. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 76 ; in Flora (1864), 

 636.— KuBz, in Teijsm. PI. Nov. Sort. Bog. 37. 

 —Mia. in Ann. Mm. I.ugd.-Bat. iii. 129. 



» Ocn. n. 1060.— .T. Gen. 386.— Lamk. III. t. 

 756, 767. — Pom. Diet. v. 295 ; Suppl. iv. 401. 

 — Sw. PL hid. Ore. ii. 1101.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 

 21, t. 6, fig. 16.— Endl. Gen. n. 6847.— H. Bn. 

 Euphorb. 621, t. 22, fig. 16-36 ; 23, fig. 1-21 ; 

 24, fig. 1-9, 16-33 ; 26, fig. 10-16, 22-24 ; 27, 

 fig. 5, 6, 9-17.— M. Arg. Prodr. 274 (inch : 



Agi/neia L. (not Vent.), Anisonemn A. Juss. 

 Ardlitghclia CoMMERS. Asttrandra Kl. Brad- 

 I'lja G.nKTN. Brtynia Forst. (part.), Calacoccm 

 Ki'Rz, Citot isaudra Wight, Clcca L. Dichiclac- 

 Una Hance, L'wsperus L. Emblica G.ertn. Epi- 

 stylium Sw. Eriococcus Has.sk. Gencsiphglla 

 Lher. Glochidion Forst. Glochidionopsis Bl. 

 GInchisandra Wight, Oynoon A. Juss. Hemi- 

 cicca, H. Bn. Mnrgarituritt L. (part.), Meborca 

 AuBL. Mfnarda Commers. Ni/mphauthus Lour, 

 Orbicniaria H. Bn. Peltandra Wight, Pleioste- 

 mon SoND. Prosorus Dalz. Eeidia Wight, Eho- 

 piiim ScHREii. Sccpasma Bl. Staurothylax Griff. 

 Synostimon F. MuELL. Tricaryum Lour. Wil- 

 liamia H. Bn. lFiirt:ia H. Bn. Xylophylla Ii. 

 Zygospirniiim Thw. Baker, Fl. Manrit. 308). 



« L. MantUs. i. 17.— J. Gen. 386.— Lamk. III. 

 t. 767.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 20, t. 4.— jAca. 

 Hort. Schccnbr. t. 294.— Endl. Gen. n. 6851.' 

 H. Bn. Euphorb. 617, t. 24, fig. 28-33. 



V Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1095, t. 22.— A. Jues. 

 Euphorb. 17, t. 3, fig. 8.— Endl. Gen. n. 6868. 

 — H. Bn. Euphorb. 646. 



8 Hassk. Cat. Sort. Sog. 242. 



» Bl. BiJdr. 582.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 648, t. 

 25, fig. 10-15. 



