200 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



racemose spikes; female spicate; spike branches 1-florous at apex 

 composed of lateral and flowcrless bracts ; male bracts 1-5-florous ; 

 pedicels articulate.^ {Cuha.'^) 



44 ? Pseudocroton M. Arg.^ — " Flowers diœcious ; male calyx 

 4-partite, valvate. Petals 4, imbricate. Glands of extrastaminal 

 disk 4, free alternipetalous. Stamens 16-20; filaments free short 

 inserted round distinctly entire rudimentary gynteceum; anthers 

 always erect, 2-rimose ; cells adnate longitudinally to connective. 

 Female flower. , . ? — A shrub (or tree ?) ; leaves alternate petiolate 

 minutely 2-stipulate penninerved veined, below, or the entire plant 

 protected by ferruginous angular scales ; male flowers subterminal 

 abbreviate racemulose.* { Guatemala. ^y 



45. Suregarda Roxb.^ — Flowers monœcious or oftener diœcious 

 apetalous; receptacle rather convex. Sepals 4, 5, imbricate, un- 

 equal; the exterior sometimes {Ceratoplioriis) dorsally cucullate. 

 Stamens oo, fi'ee ; filaments erect ; the receptacle between their 

 bases outwardly sometimes slightly glandular thickened ; anthers 

 adnate, extrorsely 2-rimose. Germeu surrounded by base of disk 

 shortly ui'ceolate, and often with co staminodes, unequal acute, 

 2-3-locular; style short, afterwards divided into thick short stigma- 

 tiferous lobes, 2-4-fid ; ovule in cell solitary. Fruit capsular, sub- 

 drupaceous or fleshy, with difiiculty or easily dehiscing; seed albu- 

 minous exarillate, generally smooth. — Small trees or shrubs gene- 

 rally glabrous ; leaves alternate or opposite simple coriaceous penni- 

 nerved veined ; stipules 2 ; cicatrice sometimes linear ; petiole short ; 

 flowers axillary or oftener oppositifolious, terminal or fasciculate 

 cymose. i^Troj). Ada and Oceania.^ Suuth and East Africa Ins. and Cont.'^) 



46. Elateriospermum Bl.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; 



1 liescmhling the genus Sicinella a.nà nearly (1803). — A. Juss. Eiiphorb. 60. — Endl. Gen.n, 



allie J to the American sect. Touniesolia. 5883. — H. Bu. Euphorb. 395 ; in Adiiiisoiiia, xi. 



- Spec. S.Griseu. loc. cit.; iaifachr. d.Kceiiiffl. 92. — Oelonium Koxb. in JF. Spec. PI. iv. 831 



Gcsellsch. d. Wiss. d. Unir. Oœtt. (1865), 175.— (1805); FI. Ind. iii. (1832), 829, nee G.ektn.). 



M. Aug. Frodr. 756. —A. Juss. he. cit. 34, t. 10.— Endl. Gen. n. 



' Ini?fo™(1872), 24. S817.— M. Akg. Ft-odr. 1126.— Erythrocarpus 



■* " Gen. juxta Leurocrotonem inserend. a quo Bl. Bijdr. 604. — Ceratophorus Sond. in Zinneeii, 



prajter petala evoluta et flor. 4-mero3 char, gra- xxiii. 120.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, iii. 164. 



vior. seq. differt; recept. hand elevat. rudim. ' Spec, ad 12. Wight, Icon. t. 1867 {Oelo- 



ovarii evolutimi in ftindo calyci.s intra stam. lib. nitim). — Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat.^up-pX. i. 452 (Qiio- 



nec in columna stam. insert. Habit, et prœs. ninm). H. Bn. in Adannonia, i. 252, 349 ; iii. 154. 



lepid. fen-. Crotonem Birmilai, sed antherœ in ala- * BiJdr. 620 (part.). — Endl. Gen. n. 6800. — 



baatr. erectse et circa rudim. sitie." H. Bn. Euphorb. 397, t. 19, fig. 26, 27 (nee 28). 



* Spec. 1. P. tinclorim M. Aug. lue. ell. — M. Akg. Frodr. 1130. 



« Ex W. in Act. Soc. Cur. Nat. Berol. iv. 206 



