206 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



58. Trewia L/ — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; receptacle shortly 

 conical. Male sepals 3, 4, free or connate at base, valvate. 

 Stamens oo ; filaments fr-ee or connate at base ; anthers erect, 

 2-locular ; exterior usually extrorse ; others iutrorse or laterally rimose. 

 Female calyx 3-4-merous, valvate or slightly imbricate at apex, gamo- 

 phyllous at base afterwards unequally-broken, sometimes reflexed at 

 anthesis. Germen sessile ; cells 3, 4, 1 -ovulate ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior obtected by obturator ; style erect, afterwards divided into 3, 

 4, elongate, inwardly stigmatiferous, much papillose branches. Fruit 

 indéhiscent suberose ; endocarp hard subosseous ; seeds exarillate 

 glabrous copiously albuminous. — A tree ; leaves opposite or subalter- 

 nate petiolate, 2-stipulate, penninerved, digitinerved at base ; stipules 

 Hnear-subulate, very caducous ; flowers racemose or spicate.^ {Southern 

 Asia cont. and ins?) 



59 ? Lasiocroton Griseb.'' — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; calyx 

 5-partite, valvate. Stamens co, central, inserted on rather convex 

 receptacle ; filaments free ; anthers erect, 2-locular, longitudinally 

 rimose. Germen 3-locular, surrounded at base with thick hypogynous 

 disk; cells 1 -ovulate; style branches 3, short thick, inwardly 

 sulcate, inflexed lobulate at margin. Capsules depressed-globose, 

 3-dymous; seeds smooth exarillate. — A tree ; leaves alternate petio- 

 late penninerved, digitinerved at base, reticulate-veined tomentose; 

 hairs simple ferruginous ; male flowers in short densely glomerate 

 spikes ; female in elongated racemes naked below. [JamaicaJ') 



60. Pycnocoma Benth.'' — Flowers monoecious (nearly of 

 Echinus) ; male calyx 3-5-partite, valvate. Stamens oo ; filaments 



1 Geii. 152.— LiNUL. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 174 ; Prodr. 955 (part.)- 



]^eg. Kingd. in. — Ki.. in Erichs. Arch.vii. 2à^. * Spec. 1. L. macrophyllna GmsEB. foe. eit. 



— Endl. Gen. Suppl. iii. 98.— H. Bn. Euphorb. — Croton macroji^ii/llus Sv.-.J'rudr. 100; Fl. Jnd. 



408, t. 18, fig. 18-23.— M. Akg. Prodr. 953.— Occ. 1196.— W. Spec. iv. 549.— Geis. Crot. Mon. 



Rottkra W. in Oœtt. Diar. Mist. Nat. i. 8, t. 3 54. Spec, altera, scil. X. pritnifolius Griseb. 



(nee RoxB.). — Tctragastris G.fiBTN. Fruct. ii. (in Nachr. d. Keen. Ges. Gœtt. (1865), 175. — 



130, t. 109, fig. 5. Croton prmnfoUus Vahl, ex Geis. Mon. 47) 



" A genus scarcely suiiiciently distinct from seen by us in the herbarium of Lambert, it would 



Echinus on account of its gynseceum and non- seem not to be of this genus, but much rather a 



capsular fruit. t«ie species of Croton ; indumentum of leaves and 



^ One species very similar, viz., T. midiflora L. germen lepidote ; stylo branches 2-fid. Whence L. 



Spec. ed. 3, App. 1661. — T.maerophyUa Roth, macc/j/ii/??»* appears allied to IfaJra and jEcAwks, 



NoD.Pl. 373. — T. mucrostachya Kl. Reis.Pr. Wal- thence to EicineUa, Bernardia (and Pseitdo- 



rfe>w.ll7,t. 23. — TetragasirisosseadAiRT's.loc.cit. croton?) Flowers and fruit, as in Tournesolia 



— Rottlera indica W. loc. cit.^A. Juss. Enplwrb. colouring water a purple-violet, 



t. 9, fig. 29 C.—E. Hoperiana, Bi,. herb.— "^ Niger, 608.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 410.— M. 



Canschi Rheeu. Hort. Malab. i. 76, t. 42. Auo. Prodr. 950. 



* Fl. Brit. W.-liid. i. 46 (part.).— M. Akg. 



