EUPHOKBIACE^. 207 



free inserted ou convex receptacle glandular-incrassate and alveolate- 

 cingent between their bases in bud straight or more or less plicate 

 flexuose ; anther 2-locular rimose ; inferior introrse, others iutrorse 

 or ofteuer extrorse. Female calyx often 5-partite, quincuncially 

 imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style erect, afterwards 

 3-fld ; branches entii-e recurved or revolute, incrassate at apex or 

 subpellate and inwardly densely stigmatiferous. Capsule S-coccous ; 

 seeds albubiuous exarUlate smooth subglobose. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate (large) elongate penninerved exstipulate, articulate 

 at base ; flowers in axillary or subterminal racemes 1 or 2-sexual 

 bracts 1- or eymose-pluriflorous ; female flower often 1, terminal.^ 

 (Trop. West. Jfrica, Malacassia.") 



61 ? Mabea Aubl.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous eglandular, 

 receptacle rather convex. Sepals 4-6, free or shortly connate at 

 base, valvate or subimbricate,* afterwards not contiguous. Stamens go ; 

 filaments erect, short, slightly dilated, subrecui-ved at apex ; anthers 

 extrorse ; cells adnate rimose. Female sepals 5, 6, 2-seriate imbricate, 

 Germen sessile, 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style long conical, 3-fid 

 at apex; branches inwardly stigmatiferous reciu-ved or revolute. 

 Capsules 3-coccous ; seeds arillate at superior micropyle. — Trees or 

 shrubs, often scandent ; leaves alternate 2-stipulate shortly petiolate 

 simple penniuerved denticulate ; limb sometimes 2-glandular at base ; 

 flowers generally racemose ; inferior female few or ; female bracts 

 1-florous ; male 1- co-florous, furnished at base with 2 glands laterally 

 elongate large thick (coloured) ; male pedicels cymose, free or more 

 or less high common stipitate.^ ( Warm America.'^) 



62. Conceveiba Aubl.' — Flowers diœcious apetalous; male 

 calyx 3, 4-partite, valvate. Stamens go, inserted on the rather 



' Genus scai'cely distinct from Echinus by ita ^ Gen. placed between Sippomane and Excce- 



disciferous receptacle, habit and inflorescence. earia in Prodromus. 



- Spec, about 8. H, Bn. in Ada/isouia, i. 69, ^ Spec, about 16. Mart. Beis. ; in Liinicea 



256; xi. 176.— M. Arc. in Flora (1864), 483. (1830), 39.— Benth. Siilph. 165 ; in Hook. Journ. 



3 Guian. 867, t. 334.— J. Gci. 388.— PoiR. (1854), 364.— M. Akg. in Flora (1872), 44.— 



Diet. iii. 663. — Lamk. III. t. 773. — A. Juss. H. Bn. in Adansotiia, iv. 370. 



Euphorà. iO, t. 13.— Endl. G«i. n. 5798.— H. • Guian. ii. 923, t. 353.— A. Juss. Eiipliorb. 



Bn. Euphorb. 412, t. 13, fig. 19-28.— M. Arg. t. 13, fig. 42 B.— BENTH.in B'oûi. /û«™. (1854), 



Prodr. 1148. 331.— H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 414, t. 21, fig. 12, 13.— 



"Lacinise calieis utriusque sexus imbri- M. Abo. in Linncea xxxiv. 166; Prodr. 895 



cativsB." (Abo.). (part.). — Conceveibum 'Rich, {en K.Jvis. op. cit. 



43). 



