EUPHORBIACE^. 189 



21. Pogonophora Miees.' — Flowers dioecious ; sepals 5, free or 

 connate at base, much imbricated. Petals same in number longer, 

 barbate within, imbricate. Stamens 5, alteruipetalous, often 2- 

 dentate, inserted between the lobes of the disk ; filaments short free 

 erect ; anthers basifixed elongated introrsely, 2-rimose. Germen 

 rudimentary central erect linear. Disk in female flower hypogy- 

 nous submembranous. Germen 3-locular; cells 1 -ovulate; style 

 scarcely divided into 3 branches, stigmatiferous 2-lobed at apex ; 

 capsule 3-coccate ; seeds exarillate ; hilum wide. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate penninerved ; stipules small or ; flowers 

 in racemes or ramified glomerate spikes.- {Trop. America.'^) 



22. Microdesmis Pl.* — Flowers dioecious ; sepals usually 5, 

 sub-free or connate at base, imbricate. Petals same in number, 

 alternate longer imbricated or twisted. Stamens 10 (Ganitrocarpus^), 

 5 of which are oppositipetalous shorter or 5 alternate [Eumicrodesmis) ; 

 filaments inserted round the thickened diskiform base of rudimentary 

 gynfeceum, simple erect ; anthers introrse, 2 rimose, connective 

 sometimes shortly apiculate. Perianth of female flowers like 

 male. Germen 2, 3-locular; ovule solitary in cell; style 2, 3, 

 discrete at base, 2-partite erect much lacerate-papillose. Fruit 

 drupaceous globose. Putamen thick, hard, outwardly much muri- 

 cate ; prickles penetrating the flesh of the mesocarp ; seed albu- 

 minous ; cotyledons of straight embryo ellipsoid or subcordate sub- 

 equal to terete radicle. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate (2-stichous) simple 

 penninerved, subeutire or dentate, pellucid-punctulate ; stipules 

 small subulate ; flowers "^ axillary fasciculate-cymose. {Tro}). West 

 Africa^ India^ China, BorneoJ) 



23. Micrandra.^ — Flowers (nearly of Pogonophora) monœcious 

 apetalous; sepals 5, 6, imbricated. Glandules in male flower same 



— A. Juss. m Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, i. 27 (ffm- Ako. in Flora (1864), 43i. 



soloma ?).— W. Spec. iv. 879 ; Eort. Berol. t. 51, •• In Hook. Icon. t. 758.— Cios. in Ann. Sc. 



52.— Jaub. et Spach, III. Fl. Or. t. 465-468.— Nat. sér. 4, ir. 382.— H. Bs. Euphorb. 668.— B. 



Sonder, in Linnœa, xxiii. 129. — Bern, in Flora H. Gen. 124. — M. Arq. Prodr. 1041. 



(1845), 81. — M. Arg. in Seem. Jonrii. of Bot. i. « Pl. loc. cit. sect. 2. 



337. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 146, 345 j iii. '" Red," dry virescent, small. 



150. 7 Spec. 2. Hook. f. Niger, 514, t. 26.— H. 



' In Sook. Journ. of Bot. (1854), 372.— H. Bn. in Adiwsonia, i. 65. 

 Bn. Euphorb. 332, t. 19, fig. 21-23.— M. Arc. " Benth. in Hook. Journ. (1854), 371 (nee R. 



in ii«nœ«, xxxiv. 202; Prodr. 1040. Br).— H. Bn. Euphorb. 333.~M. Arg. Prodr. 



■ Gen. leaves, inflorescence, and perianth of 709. — Pogonophijllum Didr. in Nat. For. Vid. 



Icacina referred to the same reg:ion8. Medd. (1857), 22. 



3 Spec. 2. H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 286.— M. 



