204 Natural history of plants. 



seeds subglobose exarillate. {Asia^ Oceania^ Africa and Trop. 

 America}) 



53. Endospermum Benth. ^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous, Male 

 calyx gamophyllus, unequally-3-5-denticulate, at first slightly im- 

 bricate. Stamens G-10, 2-seriate verticillate inserted on erect central 

 column ; filaments free recurved at apex ; anthers extrorse peltate, 3- 

 4-valved. Disk vaginiform clothing base of andi'oceum column. 

 Germen rudimentary placed at summit of column. Calyx unequally- 

 4-5-dentate. Germen •2-locular, outwardly sui-rounded by hypogy- 

 uous disk ; style afterwards divided into 2 stigmatiferous lobes, diski- 

 form subsessile and alternately connate. Ovule solitary in cells ; 

 micropyle extrorse superior obtected with marginal denticulate 

 obturator. Fruit 2-merous, indéhiscent ; mesocarp thin, finally 

 separating from permagentaceous endocarp ; columella ; testa of 

 exarillate seeds hard, outwardly aculeate-rugose. — Trees; leaves* 

 alternate petiolate ; 2-stipulate, penninerved or at base sub-3-plinerved 

 reticulate-venose, sometimes below base of limb largely 2-glandular ; 

 indumentum stellate ; flowers in racemes or spikes axillary elongated 

 cymuliferous. ( China^ Malaisia, Borneo. *) 



54. Erismanthus "Wall.® — Flowers monœcious, apetalous. Male 

 calyx oblique with compressed receptacle elongated ; folioles 5, very 

 unequal imbricated ; the posterior larger. Stamens 8-15; filaments 

 central free ; anthers introrse obtusely marginate ; cells adnate, 

 introrsely rimose. " Female sepals 5, widely foliaceous, imbricated. 

 Germen 3 -locular ; ovules^ in cells 1, with obturator; style 3-fid; 

 branches 2-partire stigmatiferous hrrtus-papillose at apex. Fruit . . .? " 

 — A shrub, as appears, scandent ; leaves opposite subsessile penni- 

 nerved, male flowers in axils of leaves or at summit of twigs in an 

 ovoid subsessile amentum ; bracts of amentum crowded, imbricate, 1- 

 florous ; flowers shortly pedicellate, laterally 2-bracteolate ; " female 

 in axillary peduncles paucibracteate, terminal and solitary."' [Ins. 

 Penantj. **) 



' Species about 12, of which some six are 469. 



from warm. S.) 'iilia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 209. '• Ca/. ii. 8011.— H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 669 (^Ere- 



— Thw. Rimm. PI. Zexjl. 272.— Dalz. in Houk. manthiis).—'iA.. Arg. Pmlr. 1138. 



Jourii. (1851), 229 (Rottlcru). — H. Bn. in Allan- '• "Omnino euphorbiaceo." (M.Ako.) 



«OTu'œ, ii. 218 ; iv. 270 ; xi. 129. ' Habit scarcely of Euphorbiaceo;; the wide 



■ Fl. Hongkong. 30-i. — M. Ano. Prodr. 1131. unequal base of the leaves does not indicate a 



3 By some referred to Aleurites on account of subauriculate branch, 



entire leaves and nervation. s Spec. I.E. ohliqiius Wall, loc.cit. 



* Spec, ad 4, 6. M. Ako. in Flora (1864), 



