euphorbiace^î:. 179 



4. Homonoya Louii.' — Flowers (nearly of Ricluus) monoecious 

 or dioecious; male calyx 3-partite, valvate. Stamens 00, polya- 

 delphous (of Eicinus) ; more interior filaments antLerless ; cells of 

 subglobose anthers confluent, shortly rimose. Calyx of female 

 flowers 5 partite, imbricated. Germen 2-4, oftener o-locular ; ^ 

 style branches same in number, simple, densely papillose. Germen 

 and ovule, as in Eicinus. Capsule small ; seeds smooth membra- 

 nous-arillate. — Vii'gate-ramose shrubs ; leaves alternate sessile 

 or petiolate, 2-stipulate penninerved entire or dentate coriaceous ; 

 inflorescence spicate or racemose axillary, sometimes 2-sexual, 

 floriferous at base, not ramifled ; bracts usually 1-flowered. [South 

 West. Trop. Asia, cont. and ins.^) 



6. Ccelodiscus, H. Bn.'' — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 

 4-5-partite, valvate. Stamens od, round central concave glandular 

 disk ; filaments more or less high polyadelphous ; anthers introrse, 

 2-rimose. Female calyx 3-5-fld, hence deeply open. Germen 

 3-5-ocular ; cells 1-ovulate ; styles 3-5, simple, stigmatiferous 

 within. Fruit ...? Trees (?) or shrubs ; * leaves alternate or opposite, 

 palmate-3-nerved petiolate exstipulate (?); flowers in axillary 

 racemes, 1, 2-sexual, glomerulate or cymulose. {Eastern India.^) 



III. JATEOPHEiE. 



6. Jatropha L. — Flowers monoecious or more rarely dioecious, 

 generally 5-merous ; calyx imbricated. Petals imbricated, free or 

 connate in gamopetalous corolla, discrete, imbricated or contorted 

 more rarely 0. Glands of disk alternipetalous, fi-ee or connate in 

 orbicular disk. Stamens generally 10, 2-verticillate, or more 

 rarely 11-30, 3-G-verticillate; filaments more less high connate 

 in central column, more rarely inserted round minute rudiment of 

 gynœceum ; exterior 5, oppositipetalous ; anthers 2-locular introrse 



1 Fl. Cochiiich. (ed. 1790), 636.— Endl. Gen. Eoth Nov. PL Sj>. 375 {Adelia).— Wight, Icon. 



n. 5885.— M. Abg. in Litmaea, xxxiv. 200 ; t. 1868, 1869 {Adelin). —Kassk. Sort. Soi;. 237, 



Prodr. I022.—Spatkiostemoii Bl. Jlijdr. 621.— 264 {Ricinus) .—Miq. Fl. Ii,d..Bat. Suppl. i. 452 



Endl. Oen. n. 5810. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 292. — {Spathiostetmn) . 



Lumaiwja Blasco, Fl. Filip. 821.— Mccmato- " Fiip/iorb. 293.— M. Akg. Prodi: 758. 



spermiim Wall. Cut. n. 7953. — Lindl. Nat. ' Habit of Fchinus. 



Syst. 116. ° Spec. 3. Wall. Cad. n. 7723 {Crotoii), 7728 



'^ Anterior cells, 2. {Ricii.ns). — M. Aug. ill Liniiaa, xxxiv. 154. 



' Spec, about 3. Geis. CVo<. JI/cjh. C (O'o/u«). — 



