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usually few, inferior in raceme, or central in small cyme ; others 

 male, all sometimes largely bracteate. ( Warm America.^) 



8 ? Tannodia H. Bn." — Flowers (nearly of Jatropha) monœcious ; 

 male calyx 5-partite, valvate. Petals 5, alternate, imbricated. 

 Stamens 10, 2-seriate verticillate ; tilaments connate at base, and 

 siuTounded by 5 alternipetalous glands, afterwards fi-ee; anthers 

 rimose, 2-locular ; the oppositipetalous shorter introrse ; the 

 alternipetalous extrorse. Female calyx 5-dentate, imbricated. 

 Petals 5, alternate. Disk hypogynous, membranous urceolate. 

 Germen o-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle extrorse superior ; 

 obturator rather thick ; style branches 3, short, refiexed, 2-fld. 

 Fruit (?) — A glabrous shi'ub ; leaves alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate, 

 entire penninerved ; flowers in spike-shaped racemes ; bracts 2- 

 glandular cymose-3-flowered.^ [Malacassia.*) 



9. Tournesolia Scop.'^ — Flowers nearly of Jatroplm^ often 

 monoecious, more rarely diœcious ; receptacle convex, or sometimes 

 slightly concave (an insertion ^whence perianth and disk are sub- 

 perigynous). Male calyx 5- or more rarely 3, 4-partite, valvate or 

 reduplicate. Petals same ia number alternate, finally valvate, more 

 or less evolute, sometimes very small or entii'e {Crosoplwra^ Ditaxis!^ 

 Phihjra^)^ or crenate-dentate [Speranskia)^ ' sub-3-lobed or o-lobed 

 {Jfffl/fhaiiiiiia),^" sometimes palmatc-3-7-fid (Chirojietahuii),^^ rarely 

 unequal, imbricated or more rarely contorted, sometimes subvalvate, 

 not contiguous. Glands 5, alternipetalous, more or less distinct, 



' Spec, atout 40. L. Spec. 1007 {Jatropha). — Chiropetalum A. Juss. Chlorocaulon Kl. Bcsfonli- 



PoHL. Fl. Bras. i. 27, t. 10-48. — M. Arg. in nea Vellos. Ditaxis Vahl, Lepidococca TuRcz. 



Limiœa, xx.xiv. 205. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. Lepidocroton Presl, Phihjra Kl. Phijlera Endl. 



66,145,343; iii. 149 ; iv. 276. Scli'mza Dennst. Scroj>Ji>jton Benth. Speiaii- 



- In Adansoida, i. 251.— M. Akg. Prodr. 728. skia H. Bx. Stenonia Didr.). 

 — Tandonia H. Bn. op. cit. i. 184, t. 7, fig. 1, 2 ^ As to symmetry, much, smaller however, 



(nee Moo.) ^ A. Juss. Enphorb. 27, t. 7, fig. 24.— Endl. 



3 A genus on account of the aestivation of the Gen. n. 5833. — H. Bn. Eaphorb. 298, t. 15, fig. 



calyx allied tOi/«f<j-()/;/m, and hence to TbwHesoZia, 23-29. — Anacauthiuin (sect.) H. Bn. in Adaii- 



approximate as it appears to Sarcoclimim and sonia, iv. 270. 

 Pausaiidra. 8 Kl. in Erkhs. Arch. (1841), 199.- H. Bn. 



* Spec. 1. T. cordifoUa H. Bn. he. cit. Enphorb. 297, t. 12, fig. 16-22.— Phi/lcra Endl. 



5 Litrod. 243, n. 1097 (1777).— H. Bn. in Geii. Suppl. ii. 91. 

 Adansonia, xi. 89. — Crozophora Neck. JElem. ii. ' H. Bn. Enphorb. 388. 



337, n. 1127 (1790).— A. Juss. Eiiphorbiae. 27, '" P. Br. Jam. 339.— Sw. Prodr. 39.— A. Juss. 



t. 7. — Nees, Gen. ii. t. 37. — Payer, Organog. Enphorb. 26, t. 7. — Argyrothamnia M. Arg. in 



526, t. 110.— H. Bn. Euphorbiac. 321, t. 15, Linnœa, xxxiv. 144; Prodr. 732.— Euargi/ro- 



fig. 12-22.— Endl. Gen. n. 5829.— M. Aeg. thamnia M. Arg. he. cit. 148. 

 Prodr. 746 (incl. : Andropho)us Karst. Aphora ^' A. Juss. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 1, xxv. 21. — 



l!!vTT. Argothamiiia SvREna. Arggrothamnia'hL Endl. Gew. n. 5830. — H. Bn. Enphorb. 336, t. 



Akg. Argythamnia Sw. Caperonia A. S. H. 15. — Chhrocaulon Kl. in 'Endl. Gen. Suppl. v. 89. 



