EUPHORBIAOE.E. 191 



26. Codiseum Rumph.^ — Flowers monoecious, 5- or more rarely 

 4-6-merous ; sepals aud petals sometimes small in female flower 

 (Blachia-), minute orO, imbricate. Glands same in number, alterni- 

 petalous or connate in annular lobed disk. Stamens oo, inserted in 

 tlie centre of conical receptacle ; filaments free or more or less 1-adel- 

 plious ; anthers introrse, lateral, or most usually extrorse ; cells 

 adnate to the connective in their whole length [Phi/lkmrea ^), some- 

 times at the apex, or more or less high to the middle or more rarely 

 to the base free [Baloghia^'^ Stciycria.f'). Germen 3, 4-locular ; style 

 branches same in number simple {Tylosepalum^^ Synaspmna!^ Os- 

 todes,^ Phyllaiirea) or 2-fid or partite {Baloghia), more rarely pluri- 

 partite {Steigeria) ; ovule solitary in cell ; obturator usually rather 

 thick. Fruit capsular; exocarp more or less fleshy or coriaceous 

 thick, sometimes ligneous-capsular ( Ostodes) ; cotyledons of albu- 

 minous embryo foliaceous; exostome richly or sparsely (Ostodes) aril- 

 late. — Trees or shi'ubs ; leaves alternate or opposite entii'e peuni- 

 nerved; flowers in racemes 1, 2-sexual, terminal or axillary some- 

 times umbelliform. ( Warm Asia and Oceania!^) 



27. Ricinocarpus Desf.^" — Flowers monoecious (of Codiœiim, 

 sect. Baloghia) ; sepals imbricated or twisted, sometimes but rarely 

 {Apetalidion^^). Glands alternate 5, free or adhering to interior of 

 sepals (Anomodiscus ^~). Stamens cc, 5-nate, inserted on central 

 columella ; anthers extrorsely rimose, more or less emarginate on 

 both sides. Female calyx 5, 6-merous. Glands of hypogynous 



1 Herb. Amboiii. iv. 65, t. 25-27.— A. Juss. » Bl. Bijdr. 619.— E.ndl. Gen. n. 5803.— H. 

 Euphorb. 33, t. 9, fig. 30.— Endl. Gen. n. 5818. Bn. Euphorb. 391 ; in Adansonia, xi. 78.— M. 

 — H. Bn. Euphorb. 381, t. 16, fig. 26-35; in A»G. in Litinœa, xxxiv. 214; Trodr. 1114.— 

 Adansonia, xi. 73-80.— M. Arg. Pi-odr. 1116. — Desmostemon Thw. Eniim. PL Zeyl. 278. 



? Fakrenheitia Eeichb. f. et Zoll. in Linnœa, ' Spec, about 20. Foest. Prodi: 67 {Croton). — 



xxriii. 599.— M. Arg. Prodr. 1256 (incl.: .Ba- Spreng. ^^s(. iii. 906 [Trewia).—LA.-Rih-L. Sert, 



loghia Endl. Blachia H. Bn. Desmostemon Thw. Caled. 77, t. 76 {Crozophora).—^. Spec. iv. 546 



Junghimia MiQ. Ostodes Bl. Pliijllaurea Lour. {Croton). — Wight. Icon. t. 1874 {Croton). — 



Syiiaspisma Endl. Steigeria M. Arg. Tgloscpa- Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 680 [Croton). — Mia. Fl. Iitd.- 



lum KuRz). Pat. i. p. ii. 384 {Ostodes). — H. Bn. mAdansonia, 



2 H. Bn. Euphorb. 385, t. 19, fig. 18-20. i. 345 {Baloghia), 251, 348 ; ii. 214 {Baloghia), 

 ' Lour. Fl. Cochinch, (ed. 1790), ôlô.—Eu- 218 {Sgnaspisma) ; -vi. 296 {Baloghia), 303. 



eodiœum M. Aro. Prodr. 1119 (sect. i).—Jimg- i" In Mêm. Mus. iii. 459, t. 22.— A. Juss. 



hunia Mia. Fl. Ind. -Bat. i. p. ii, 412. Euphorb. 36. — Endl. Qeii. n. 5812 ; Iconocjr. t. 



* Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 84 ; Gen. n. 5811 ; 125 {SicinocarpHs).—B.. Bn. Euphorb. 343, t. 12, 

 Icon. t. 122, 123.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 344. fig. 39-44.— M. Arg. Prodr. 20i.—llœperia 



* M. Aro. in Linnœa, xxxiv. 215 ; Prodr. Spreng. Sgst. iii. 13 (neo A. Juss.), — Echino- 

 1121. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, xi. 74. sphœra Sieb. MSS. (ex Sond. in Linnœa, xxvui. 



^ KuRz. in Teijsm. et Sinn. Fl. Nov. vel Min. 562). 



Cogn. Hort. Bog. 36. ' ' M. Arg. in Linnœa, xxxiv. 59. (A legiti- 



' Endl. Oen. n. 5775. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 387. - mate species of this genus ?) 



— M. Arg. Prodr. 1120, sect. 5. '- M. Arg. loe. cit. 59. 



