ErPHORBIACE.^. 187 



flowers in small ensilions, axillary, densely glomerate, or the female 

 sometimes pedicellate squamnlose-bracteate. {East India,^ Brazil.") 



18. Heava Atjbl.' — Flowers monœcions apetalous ; calyx 5-fid, 

 valvate or snbinduplicate, sometimes more rarely slightly twisted at 

 apex. Stamens 5, 1-seriate * {Euhevea ^), or 6-10, 2-seriate {Bisvphonia '') 

 verticillate ; the oppositipetalous 5 longer inferior;''' others alternate 

 inserted higher; anthers all extrorse, longitudinally 2-rimose, verti- 

 cally inserted on erect central column. Disk or rudimentary 

 {Euhevea)^ oftener variously evohite round base of column [Bisi- 

 plionia). Germen rudimentary surmounting top of column. Germ en 

 of female flowers sessile ; glands distinct or connate, sometimes sub- 

 nil ; cells 3, 1-ovulate ; style column erect or very short, incrassate 

 stigmatiferous lobes 2-lobed at apex. Fruit capsular;^ cocci of 

 solubile ligneous endocarp 2-valved ; seeds ^ descendent ; micropyle 

 extrorse arillate. — Large trees; juice copious milky; leaves alternate 

 long petiolate, cUgitate o-foliolate; folioles sessile or petiolulate penni- 

 nerved, patellar-glandulose at base ; flowers i° in axillary and ter- 

 minal ramified-cymiferous racemes ; female thicker pedicellate central 

 or in each cymnle. {North Eastern Trop. 8. Jmen'caJ'^) 



19. Trigonostemon Bl.^^ — Flowers monœcious ; calyx 5-partite, 

 sometimes shortly 5-dentate in male flower {Dmorp/iocal//a\^^) Petals 

 same in number alternate imbricated, sometimes minute or {Sil- 

 vœa'^^). Stamens 5 {Telogyne'^^) or 3, 1 -verticillate {Silvœa, Eutri- 

 goiiostemon^'')., sometimes 2 -verticillate ; verticels sometimes unequal in 



I RoxB. Fl. Lid. iii. 848 (.4rf«?i<î) .— Wall. 567 {Sipho„ia).— -B..'B.K. Nov.Gen. et Spec.\u. 

 Cat. n. 7872 {Braiiieia ?). 171 {Sipho,iia).—Ki.. in Heyn. Arzn. xiv. t. 4, 5 



- Spec. 1. 0. myrsinites (sect. Amanoella, H. {Siphonia). — Benth. in Hook. Jouni. (1854), 



Bn. in Adaiisonia. xi. 94). 369. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 284. 



3 Guian. 871, t. 335.— M. Aeg. Prodi: 716.— 12 Bl. Bijdr. 600.— Endl. Gen. n. 5835.-11. 



Siphonia ScHitEB. Gm. 656. — A. Jvsa. Eiiphoib. 'Bii. Euphorb. ZiO, t. 11.— M. Arg. in Liniiœa, 



39, t. 12.— Exdl. Oeil. n. 5799.— H. Bx. £■«- s-xxiv. 212; Fmdr. 1105 (incl. : Athroisma 



phorb. 324, t. 14, fig. 39-41, t. 15, fig. 1-11.— Griff. Blmorplincnli/x Thw. Eiic/iidioii Jack (P), 



Caoutchouc A. Rich, in Journ. Fhi/s. (1785). — Sih-œa Hook, et Akn. Telogym H. Bn. Tritaxis 



liicrandra R. Br. in Horsf. PI. Jav. Rar. 237 H. Bn). 

 (neo Benth.). '' Thw. Eiium. PI. Zeyl. 278. 



■* Alternating with calyx lobes. '* Hook, et Arm. in Biccli. Voy. Bot. 2\\. — 



* M.Aro. ini/«H(»(7,xxxir. 204. — Sect. iZVecfi. H. Bn. Eiiphori. 341. 

 H. Bn. Euphorb. 326. ^' H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 327. 



^ H. Bx. loc. cit. 326 (sect. B). '• M. Aro. in Linnœa xxxiv. 214. — Tiigo- 



' Alternating with lohee of disk and calyx. stemoit Bl. Fl. Jav. Prœfat. viii. — ? — Enchidion 



' Exocarp often fleshy hefore maturity. Jack, in Hook. Camp, to Bot. Mag. ii. 257.— Endl. 



' Large dusky-spotty. Gen. n. 5838. (Enchidiiim) — -H. Bn. Euphorb. 



1° Greenish or yellowish, small. 652. — M. Arg. Pi-odr. 1256. — Athroisma Griff. 



II Spec, about 8. L. p. Suppl. 422 {Jatropha). Notul. iv. 477. 

 — Pers. Syii. ii. 588 (Siphonia).— W. Spec. iv. 



