186 NATORAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



tiferous 2-fid at apex. Ovules solitary in cells ; mycropyle cxtrorse 

 superior obturated. Fruit^ fleshy-capsular ; exocarp subdi-upaceous 

 solute; cocci 2-5, 1-spermous. Seeds ^ exarillate;^ cotyledons of 

 thickly albuminous embryo foliaceous orbieulate-ovate, digitinerved 

 at base. — Trees; indumentiim stellate or of simple or 2-fid hairs, 

 constant ; leaves alternate long petiolate, entire or thickly dentate 

 or lobed, digitinerved at base, 2-glandular above; petioles often 

 articulate at base; stipules usually 0, sometimes small inconspicuous 

 or sooner or later caducous ; flowers * in terminal racemes or axillary 

 to the upper leaves, many times ramified cymiferous ; the central 

 in cymules often female more thickly stipitate.^ {Trop. Eastern 

 Asia, Continental and ins. Trop. Oceania.'^) 



16. SagotiaH. Bn.''' — Flowers monœcious, 5-merous ; sepals same 

 in number in both sexes and petals longer imbricated. Glands (in 

 female flower 0) same in number alternating with petals. Stamens oo, 

 free, inserted on convex receptacle ; filaments short erect ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 3-locular, cells 1-ovulate ; style 

 branches 3, 2 -fid stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule furnished with 

 long persistent perianth, 3-coccous; seeds axarillate. — A tree; leaves 

 petiolate alternate, *i -stipulate, simple penninerved veined ; flowers 

 racemose. {Guiana, North Brasil.^) 



17. Chsetocarpus Thw.** — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; sepals 4, 

 decussate imbricated. Glands of disk 4, opposite petals. Stamens 

 8-16 ; filaments connate at base with rudimentary germen, pilose ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germén 3-locular; branches of 3 -partite 

 style stigmatiferous, 2-partite at apex ; ovules solitary in cells obtu- 

 rated. Fruit capsidar ; seed smooth arillate at microj^yle. — Trees ; 

 wood hard ; leaves alternate stipulate petiolate entire penninerved ; 



1 Large ; pericarp thick. ^ Spec. 3. L. Spec. 1000 Jatropha.—hovsi. Fl. 



^ Large globose, outwardly fleshy. Cochinch. 573 {Juç/lans). — K^tîmpf. Amuiii. Exot. 



3 p;xterior coat, suhcqually incrassate fleshy ; 789 (^J)'ffsi«).— Blanco, Fl. de Filip. 765 ; ed. 2, 



interior very hard. 719. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 146, 346; vi. 



*■ White or pink ; the female larger. 297. 



' S(ct. (ex M. Abo.) 3 : 1. Ctimirimn. An- ^ In Admisonia, i. 53 (nee Walp.).— M. Arg. 



thers always erect; germen 2-locular; indu- Prodr. 1113. 



mentura stellar. — 2. Drytwdia. Anthers erect, ^ Spec. 1. aS. racemom H. Bn. up. cit. i. 54 ; 



then oscillating-extrorse reflexed and suhpen- vi. 15. 



dulous; hairs at base 2-partite or subsimple. — « In Sool: Juiirii. (1854), 300, t. 10; Enmn. 



3. Seiitialcs. Anthers few, 2-verticillate ; ger- PI. Zci/l. 274.— H. Bn. Eu2>horl,iac. 223.— M. 



men 3, 4-locular ; indumentum stellar. Arg. Prodr. 1121. 



