184 NATURAL IHsTOnY OF PLANTS. 



12. Sarcoclinium Wight i. — Flowers (uearly of Jatropha) 

 dioecious ; male sejjals 5 or more rarely 3, 4, A^alvate. Petals same 

 in number alternate, shorter than calyx, or sometimes twice as 

 numerous as sepals, imbricated. Stamens central, 2-verticillate, 

 twice as numerous as sepals, or more rarely 12-15 ; the more 

 interior alterni^ietalous ; filaments surrounded at base with 5 alter- 

 nij^etalous glands, subfree or oftener connate. Germen 3-locular ; 

 cells 1-ovulate;^ style erect, afterwards 2-fid ; branches 2-4 -fid, 

 stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds albuminous 

 exarillate. — Shrubs ; branches thick ; leaves ^ alternate petiolate 

 2-stipulate, penninerved, entire or serrate coriaceous ; flowers axillary 

 or supra-axillary spieate racemose, 2-6-stichous ; bracts alternate 

 imbricated, sometimes scarious, 1-3-flowered ; pedicels cymose 

 articulate. (South Asia and trop. JFcst Africa^) 



13. Galeria Zoll. and Mor.-' — Flowers diœcious ; sepals 5, fi-ee 

 or connate at base, valvate." Petals 5, alternate, concave or subgaleate- 

 cucuUate, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate ; exterior alter- 

 nipetalous ; filaments inserted below rudiment of gyufeceum, connate 

 at base ; anthers introrse ; the oppositipetalous nestled in the cavity 

 of the petals ; cells free, introrsely rimose, finally emarginate. 

 Germen 2, 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style afterwards divided into 2, 

 3 lobes 2 -partite stigmatiferoiis at apex. Fruit coriaceous, irregularly 

 compressed, non-valved, 1 -spermous by abortion ; seed albuminous ; 

 cotyledons of transverse embryo flat, wider than radicle.- — Small 

 trees ; ^ leaves alternate, 2-stipulate entire penninerved veined ; 

 flowers in long pendulous terminal racemes. Male racemes fasciculate 

 cymiferous ; female simple.® [Java^ Malaisia:') 



1 Icon. t. 1887, 1888.— H. Bn. Euphorbim. Ami. Sc. Nat. sér. i,;n. 259.— Bcmiettia R.'Br. in 

 309, t. 11, f5g. 17, IS ; in Admisoiiia, xi. 93.— Honf. Pl.Jav. Hiir. (1852), 249, 50 (nee Mra.).— 

 M. Arc. Prodi-. 72G. — A'jroslistnchi/s Dalz. in H. Bn. Euphurb. 311. — Schnizl. Icoiwg. t. 

 Hoolc.Jouni. (1850), 41.— H. Bs. Etip/iorbim: 172 * *.— M. Aeg. Prodi: lOSG.—Cremostachys 

 310. — M. Arg. op. cit. 725. Tul. in yliiii. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 259. 



2 Ovules usually descendent; micropyle ex- ' Not contiguous in young bud," ex directione 

 trorse superior or sometimes (in fl. Hookcri) fiilorum marginum et ex forma irabricatis." 

 ascendent ; micropyle introrse inferior. (M. Arg.) 



^ Usually large. ' Indumentum simple. 



"• Spec. 5. Thw. Eiium. PI. Ztijl. 279. — M. " A genus formerly connected with 4«/(V?fs»j«. 



Aug. in Flora (18G4), 534; in i(««œ«, xxxiv. ' Spec, about 12. Bl. Sljdr. 1124 {Aiiti- 



144 {Agroslistaehys). (/«hw).— Mm. Fl. Iiid.-Pdf. Suppl. 471.— M. 



" Si/st. Verzn. (1846), 19 (nee Heist, ncc Arg. in liniiœn, xxxiv. 204 {Bciiiiettia). 

 Presl). — Endl. Gen. Suppl. v. 94.— Pl. in 



