196 NATURAL HlfiTORY OF PLANTS. 



36. Echinus Lour.' — Flowers monoecious or more rarely dioecious 

 (nearly of Smnhavia) apetalous ; male calyx 2-5-partite, valvate. 

 Stamens oo, inserted on central elevated subdilated eglandular re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments free or connate at base ; anthers introrse or more 

 rarely extrorse; cells rimose adnate or free below (Podadenia^), 

 sometimes inserted below dilated connective, discrete. Female calyx 

 3-0 -partite, valvate or more rarely more or less imbricated. Ger- 

 men free, 3-locular or rarely 2-5-locular, surrounded by hypogynous 

 disk of varied form {Melanolepis^ Blutneodendron,'^) ^ or oftener ; cells 

 1 -ovulate; style brancbes simple, sometimes more or less dilated, 

 largely and thickly papillose within. Staminodes hypogynous cx),^ 

 or much oftener 0. Fruit capsular, 2-5-coccous, more rarely with 

 difficulty or scarcely dehiscing (Coccoceras'') and subflcshy (Poda- 

 denia)^ imarmed or sometimes echinate (Eottkroj)sis,'^ Mclanolepis) 

 or aculeate [Axenfeldia ^), more rarely dorsally carinate or more or 

 less sometimes long horned ( Cordemoya^ Coccoccras) ; seeds exarillate 

 or more rarely at micropyle slightly carunculate ( Coccoceras). — Trees 

 and shrubs ; leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, 2-stipulate, 

 penninerved or digitinerved, sometimes peltate, entii-e dentate or 

 lobed, oftener below sprinkled with dusky or yellow glands ; indu- 

 mentum simple, stellate or 2-morphous. Flowers terminal, axillary or 

 lateral, racemose or spicate ; spikes or racemes subsimple or oftener 

 ramified, bearing glomerules or cymes ; calyx generally ecalyculate or 

 sometimes (Diphchlamys^") in female flower bracts 5, in involucrum 

 representing external calyx." {Jsia, Warm Asia, Oceania and Africa?'^) 



> Fl. CiieUiich. {vA. 1790), 633.— Endl. Gen. Prorli\ 919.— H. Bn. in Admisoim, xi. 89. 

 n. 5887.— H. Bn. in Aihiiisoniii, xi. 130, not.— ' M. Ako. Pi-otlr. 957 (sect. 2). 



Mallotus Louu. op. cit. 635. — M. .Aug. in Lin- ' H. Bn. EupJiorb. 419. — Haiicm Seem. Voy. 



ncca, xxxiv. 184 ; Prodi: d66.—Sottlera RoxB. Herald, Hoi. 409, t. 96. 



PI. Coromand. i. 36, t. 168. — A. Juss. Euphorb. ' H. Bn. in Adaiisonia, i. 255. — M. Alio. 



32, t. 9.— H. Bn. Euphorh. i2l.—Adisca Bl. Prodr. 960 (sect. i).—Bontonia Boj. Hort. Mam: 



Bijdr. 609.— Plagianthera Reichb. f. Zoll. Ov. 282 (nee. DC.).— Bout. Trav. Soc. Hisl. Nat. 



Soort V. Rottlera. 19.— Echii/ocroton F. Muell. Maw: (1846), 51. 



Frai/m. i. 31 (incl.: Axenfeldia H. Bn. Boutonia '" M. Akq. in Flora (1804), 539 ; Prodr. 1023. 



BoJ. Coccoceras MiQ. Cordtmoi/a H. Bn. Piplu- " Sect. igit. 9: I. Eitcclmius [Rottlera Viofis.). 



chlamys M. Arg. Haiieca Seem. Melaiiolepis ■ — 2. Jiottlerupsis (M. Arc). — 3. Bltimeodendron 



Reich, p. et Zoi,l. Podadeiria Thw. (M. Arg.) — 4. Axenfeldia (H. Bn.) — 5. Cordemoya 



2 Thw. Emim. PL Zeyl. 273. — M. Arg. Prodr. (H. Bn.). — 6. Melanolepis (Reichb. p. et Zoll.) 



791. 7. Podadenia (Thw.). — 8. Coccoceras (Mm.)— 9. 



■'' Reichb. p. et Zoll. in Linnœa, xxviii. 324. Dipliehlamijs (M. Arc.). 

 — H. Bn. Euphorb. 398.— M. Arg. Prodr. 967. '^ Spec, ad 75. L. Spec. 1005 (Croton).- 



" M. Aeg. Prodr. 956 (sect. \).—Elateriosper- Thunii. Fl. Jap. 270, t. 28, 29 [Croton) .—'hovR, 



mum (part.) Bl. Bijdr. 621. Fl. Coehinch. (ed. 1790), 585 [Rieinm) .—Y ahl, 



* Sometimes autheriferous (H. Bn. Euphorb. Si/mb. ii. 97 {Croton). — Geis. Crot. Monogr. 73 



t. 19, fig. 31 ; in Jdnnsoma, vi. 370). (Croton), 81 {Almrites).—W. Spec. iv. 567 [Ri- 



" Mkj. Fl, Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 466, — M. Arg. cinm). — Spreng. Syst. iii, 878 I^Rottkra). — 



