RUPHORniACE.E. 309 



subpeltate at bick. Cells B [Pachjjufemon^) or coustantly 4 {Eumacn- 

 ranrffi^- Mappa ^), sometimes anthers lieteromorphous, partly 3 or 4 

 {Dimoi'phanthera *) ; valves in dehiscence extrorse same in mimber 

 (3 or 4). Female calyx imbricate. Germen free ; cells 1 {Eumacr:- 

 ranga)j 2 {Mappa) or partly 2, 3 [Bimoiphanthcra), sometimes 4-G 

 [Pachysteinon) ; 1 ovule in each, descendent ; more or less anatro- 

 pous ; micropyle extrorse superior ; obtui'ator generally small ; the 

 more or less lateral branches of central or excentric style equal in 

 number to cells (Eimiacarawjd) inwardly and at apex laterally stig- 

 matiferous. Fruit capsular, I-6-coccous; cocci dehiscent or indihes- 

 cent, outwardly unarmed or more or less aculeate, often (as several 

 parts of the plant) sprinkled with granular pimetiform, red, yellow, 

 or ferruginous glands. Seed usually incompletely anatropous, pla- 

 centas laterally adnate to elongate linear hilum, cxarillate ; the folia- 

 ceous cotyledons of albuminous embryo much longer and wider than 

 radicle. — Trees or shrubs; leaves usually alternate petiolate ; sti- 

 pules lateral, sometimes large foliaceous or membraneous ; limb en- 

 tire or lobed, penninerved or at base palmatinerved reticulate- 

 veined; flowers (male) minute glomerulate orcymose in subsimple or 

 more or less ramified axillary racemes, involuerate with small or 

 sometimes large foliaceous bracts. (.7// Trop. Regions of the Old 

 World ^). 



65. Dysopsis H. Bn.'' — Flowers monœcious apetalous ; male 

 calyx valvate 3-fid. Stamens 3 or ofteuer 6, 2-seriate inserted on 

 short receptacle ; filaments central, connate at base ; anthers in- 

 trorse or in smaller stamens ' sublateral ; cells divergent below and 

 free at middle between themselves. Female flowers (nearly of Mer- 



' Bl. BIj'ir. 626.— Endl. Geii. n. 5778.— H. in Liniitea, xxviii. 311 (iîo/'/lfr/n).— Reinw. Cat. 



B-s. Euphoib. 551, t. 20, fig. 38-41.— M. Aeg. B^y. 108 (i?/c/«»j).— Zoll. in Linna-a, xxix. 



inMêm. Ge». xvii. p. ii. 454. 464 {Adisca), 465 {Mappa). — Hassk. Hort. Bog. 



2M. Aug. Prodi: 1008, sect. i.—Macaraiiga 238 {R'ltthrn). —^Uo.. Ft. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



\ivY.-T-B..loe.cU.—Pankupia NoR.MSS. (ex Dup.- 403 ; Suppl. Sutmt. 456 (M.iipptt).—'ï:\\.\s. Enum. 



Th. loc. cit ).—Bnien Gaudich. in Freiicin. Voij. PI. Zeijl. 273 {RottUrn) .—^^. Arg. in Limiœa, 



.Bo<. 511.— H. Bn. in Admisonia, vii. m.—Mc- xxxiv. 197; in Flora (1864), 466; in Seem. 



eostglùi'K.VRZ, in. T'!/!.iu. it Bi;H. P/. Nov. Hcrf. Jourii. of Bot. i. 337 {Mnpjia) .—BEJi-m. Fl. 



Bog. 30. Austral, yi. 144.— H. Bn. in Hortic. Franc, xv. 



3A. Jnss. Exphorb. 44, t. 14, fig. 44.— Endl. 234; in Adansonia, i. 69, 260, 349 {Mappa); 



ffsM. n. 5788.— H. Bn. i'«7;/(or*. 428, t. 20, fig. ii. 223 (Mappa); iii. 155 {Mappa); vi. 316 



1-7. {Mappa). 



* M. Arg. Prodr. 990, sect. 2. " Euphorb. 435 ; in Adansonia, xi. 128.— M. 



^ Spec, ad SO. L. Spec. ed. 2, 1430 (Ricinus). Abo. Prodr. ^i^.— Molina C. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 



—'W.Spec.vr.b'ÎG {Acalt)pha).—RoiiJi. Fl. Lid. 345, t. 61 (not Pat. nor Less, nor Cav.).— 



iii. 690 (JîiCi«!(s).— Bl. Bijdr. 2iS {Zant/ioj^i/loii). MirabeUia Bert. MSS. 



-Blanco, El.de Filip. ed. 2, 517 {Crvtun).— 'Exterior. 

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