ETJPSORBIACEM. 193 



3-coccous ; seeds descendent arillate at mieropyle ; albumen copious ; 

 cotyledons of straight embiyo scarcely or not at all wider than long 

 cylincMcal radicle, semi-terete or slightly complanate. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs often viscous; leaves alternate narrow entire coria- 

 ceous exstipulate, articulate, at base ; flowers axillary solitary or 

 scantily cymose. {Australia?-') 



30. Alphandia H. Bn,^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Codiceum); 

 calyx gamophyllous, variously 5-dentate, valvate. Petals 5, imbri- 

 cate. Glands of disk 5, alternipetalous membranous, free or connate 

 in short ring. Stamens co (of Codiaum) ; filaments shortly geniculate- 

 reciu'ved ; anthers small extrorse ; cells discrete above but aduate 

 to the connective below. Female calyx gamophyllous, valvate, 5- 

 dentate or unequally torn. Petals 5, larger rather thick imbricated, 

 finally rccui'ved. Hypogynous glands of disk 5, sometimes very 

 small. Germen of Codlœum; style afterwards 3-fld, branches ;2-tid. 

 Capsule elastieally 3-coccous, cocci at back vertically 2-carinate-cos- 

 tate; seeds terete,-^ couoid-arillate at apex; cotyledons of copiously 

 albuminous embryo elliptical foliaceous much wider than terete 

 radicle. — Trees or shrubs scantily furfiu'aceous or luteo-resinous 

 punctuate ; leaves alternate petiolate exstipidate entire penninerved 

 reticulate ; flowers in terminal racemes or axillary to upper leaf ; the 

 lower flowers of the racemes female, others male ; bracts of inflo- 

 rescence 1 -flowered or cymose-pku'iflorous.* [New Caledonia:') 



31 ? Cocconerion H. Bn " — Flowers diœcious ; male ? . . . Female 

 calyx o-merous ; sepals oblong, coriaceous, valvate. Petals and 

 disk 0. Germen sessUc, 2- or oftener 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; 

 microi^yle extrorse superior protected by obturator ; style afterwards 

 2-3-brauched ; branches 2 or 3 stigmatiferous, 2-tid at apex. Capsule 

 furnished at base with calyx, 2-3-coccous; seeds glabrous; miero- 

 pyle arillate ; cotyledons of copious oleose-albuminous embryo many 

 times wider than radicle. — Trees or shi-ubs branches nodose ; leaves 

 verticillate(6-10-nate) shortly petiolate or subsessile, elongate-lanceo- 



1 Spec, ad 12. Labill. PL Nouv.-BoU. ii. ' Nigrescent-apotted. 



72, t. 222 {Croton).—'DC. Sijst. Veg. i. 44i ; •• A genus, having much affinity with C»(«fc™H, 



Prodr. i. 71 {Stmistemma). — Sund. in Liniiœa, sect. Steigcria, differs particularly in aspect and 



xxviii. 504. — HooK.f. Fl. Ta-sin. i. 388. — Benth. hy gamophyllous valvate calj-x not imbricate. 



Fl. Austral, vi. 63.— F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. ' Spec. 2. H. Bn. Inc. cit. 86. 



Soc. Vict, i, 16. — H. Bn. in Adaiiaonia, vi. 304. ' In Adanaonia, xi. 87. 



" In Adansonia, xi. 86. 



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