EUPHOHBIACE^. 197 



37 ? Cheilosa Bl.^— Flowers (nearly of Echinus) dioecious ; 

 calyx subvalvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens inserted round 

 rudimentary gynseceum free ; anthers introrse ; cells adnate rimose. 

 Disk 10-glandular ; glands 2-plicate alternating in series. Germen 

 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style branches 3, shortly 2-fid, stigmati- 

 ferous at apex. Fruit capsular ; exocarp thick ; seeds exarillate. 

 Other characters of Echinus.- — A tree ; leaves alternitbliate penni- 

 nerved ; flowers in axillary cymiferous racemes. {Java?) 



38. Epiprinus Getff.*— Flowers monœcious. Male calyx naked, 

 4-partite, valvate. Stamens jo , usually few ; iilaments free inserted 

 round base of rudimentary gynteceum, in bud 2-plicate; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Female calyx 6-partite ; leaves reduplicate, 

 after florescence much foliaceous accrescent, surrounded outside 

 by bracts same in number, shorter alternate (of involucre), Germen 

 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style straight afterwards transversely 

 3-lobed beyond articulation ; leaves thick 2-fld ; divisions inciso- 

 papillose. Fruit capsular 3-dymous, surrounded at basewith accres- 

 cent perianth and involucre. Seed ? — A tree ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate entire penninerved large ; flowers racemose, axillary to 

 upper leaves ; female pedicels finally long, calyculate ; ^ lobes of 

 epicalyx alternating with those of calyx, smaller, distinctly 2 -gland- 

 ular.*^ {MalaisiaP) 



39. Garcia Kohr.® — Flowers monoecious ; receptacle convex. 

 Calyx gamophyllus, valvate, unequally or subequally broken (2-4- 

 partite). Male petals to 10, female to 8, 2-seriate, verticillate, 

 strong, outwardly and at margin sub-imbricate, much sericeo-villose. 

 Disk in both sexes shortly urceolate, deeply pectinate-dentate. Sta- 

 mens œ , free ; the receptacle dilated between them in ciliate tmequal 



ScHUM. et Thonn. Beska. 410 {Acahjpha) .— Sort. Bog. 232.— Mia. 'PI. Iiid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



RoXB. Fl. Ind. iii. 828 (iîoW&ra).— Sieb. et 410. 



Zccc. Fl. Jap. t. 79 [Sottlern). — Benth. Nii/er, * Posth. Pap. 487. — M. Aro. in Liniima, 



506 {Clmxijlon) ; Fl Austral, vi. 138 {Mallotus). xxxiv. 144 ; Prodr. 1024. 



— Zoi/L. et MoR. Verzn. 17 {Mappa). — ThWi * After the manner of ifjiiscHs. 



Enum. PI. Zexjl. Ill [Rottlera), 273 {Podadeiiia). ^ Much better made a sect, of Echinus? 



— H. Bn. in Aduiisoiiia, i. 69, 259 ; ii. 223 {Sot- ' Spec. 1. F. Malayamis Grifp. loc. cit. 



tlera) ; iv. 313. » In Act. Soc. Bist. Nat. Bafn. ii. 217, t. 9.— 



' iJij»-. 613.— Endl. Gen. n. 5821.— H. Bn. Vahl, %»)A. .Boi.iii. 99.— A. Juss. £k;)/w>-4. 41, 



Euphorb. 420.— M. Aro. Prodr. 1123. t. 13, fig. 40.— Endl. Qen. n. 5797.— H. Bn. 



2 To which genus it is undoubtedly allied. Euphorb. 392, t. 14, fig, 28-38.— M. Aro. Prodr. 



3 Spec. 1. C. Montana Bl. loc. cit. — Hassk. 721. 



