180 NATUEAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or partly laterally rimosc ; interior sometimes effete or abortive. 

 Germeu o-locular (more rarely 2- or 4-locular) ; ovule in cells 

 solitary ; obturator usually thick ; style branches generally at 

 apex fetigmatiferous, 1-or 2 -lid. Staminodes hypogynous, sometimes 

 3-10 interior to disk. Fruit capsular sometimes subfleshy 

 at maturity, or very rarely fleshy ; cocci generally solute from 

 columella and dehiscent. Seeds usually smooth ; micropyle arillate ; 

 cotyledons of richly albuminous embryo foliaceous palmatinerved. 

 Shrubs or small trees sometimes urent-setose ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, 2-stipulate, entire, dentate or lobed, penninerved or 

 oftener digitinerved ; flowers usually in compound-cymiferous 

 racemes ; female flowers central ; male more numerous pheripheric. 

 {Warm rcg. of America, Asia, and Africa.) See p. 112. 



7. Manihot Plum.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous (nearly of 

 Cniiloscolus) ; male calyx more or less deeply 5-fid, quincuucially 

 imbricated. Stamens 1 0, 2-seriate ; filaments free, slender, inserted 

 between the marginal teeth or lobes of thick fleshy-glandular wide 

 disk ; anthers dorsally affixed ; cells lateral or oftener (in shorter 

 stamens alternating with leaves of calyx) more or less extrorse, 

 longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 5-fid or oftener 5-partite 

 deciduous. Disk hypogynous, thick, subannular, often furnished 

 outwardly with 10 very short staminodes. Germen 3-locular ; 

 ovules solitary in cells descendent ; micropyle extrorse superior ; 

 obturator thick ; * style afterwards divided into 3 thick lobes, shortly 

 rei^eatedly 2-lobcd, papillose, undulate. Fruit capsular, 5-coccous ; 

 cocci 2-valved ; exocarp usually solute ; seeds oî Jatropha ; microjiyle 

 thick, arillate. — Herbs, iindershrubs, or more rarely trees ; root (?) 

 sometimes tuberose ; often glabrous glaucescent ; abounding in a 

 hyaline juice ; leaves alternate (of Jatropha), simple or digitate- 

 compound ; stipules usually small, deciduous fiowers in simple or 

 ramified racemes sometimes cymiferous, often terminal ; female 



' Cut. 20 (part.). — T. Inst. 658, t. 438. — times with pale purple stripe. 



Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 356. — Endl. Gcii. n. ^ In the centre, at an early age, an abortive 



8508.— H. Bn. Huphoi-b. 305, t. 19, fig. 12-17.— germen may be seen. 



M. Alio. Proth: 1057. — Camagnoc Aubl. Giiian. ■■ An elongated process is present, rising from 



iii. Trois Mém. 65. — Janipha H. B. K. Nov. Ocn. the top of the nut, and more or less compressed 



ct Spec. ii. 106, t. 109. — A. Juss. Euphorh. 37, at the apex or spathulate attached to the back 



t. 10, fig. 33. — Aypi G. Bauh. Pin. 91. of the obturator (sometimes taken for a middle 



'^ Usually coloured bluish or purplish, some- lobe of the obturator itself). 



