210 NATURAL IlISTOnY OF PLANTS. 



curialis); calyx valvate or slightly imbricated, 3-partite. Gynaj- 

 ceum as in Mercurialis. Germen cells 3, alternating with sepals, 1- 

 ovulate; style branches linear-lanceolate, stigmatiforous within. 

 Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds subglobose scantily arillate. — Humble 

 herbs prostrate thin-stemmed scandent ; leaves alternate membrane- 

 ous, crenate-dentate or lobed, 2-stipulate ;^ flowers axillary with rudi- 

 mentai-y twigs ; male solitary or few ; female solitary, finally much 

 longer pedunculate.- (Chili, Equatorial Jndes, Magellan Alps, 

 Island of J. Fernandez ^). 



66. Mercurialis T.*^ — Flowers monœcious or diœcious, apetalous, 

 usually 3-merous ; male calyx valvate. Stamens definite (Tr/sme- 

 (jista,^ ^Se/c/e^/a ''), alternating with sepals (2, 3) or subiudefinite, 

 usually CO (Linozostis^ Claoxylon,^ ErijtJirococca '' ) ; filaments cen- 

 tral free inserted on rather convex receptacle ; anther cells ■2, rimose, 

 free, from the first [Claoxijlon) or more or less late erect ; sometimes 

 but rarely adnate to the connective (jSeide/ia, Adcnocline). Glands or 

 zK) (possibly giandulitbrm staminodes ?) inserted on receptacle usually 

 exterior to fertile stamens. Female calyx valvate or slightly 

 imbricated. Germen 2-3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style branches 

 same in number, papillose stigmatiferous within. Glands of hypo- 

 gynous disk alternating with germen cells and equal in number to 

 them, either linear {Linosotis) or more or less widely squamiform, 

 sometimes very small ( Claoxylon). Fruit 2-3-coccous ; seeds thinly 

 arillate at micropyle or more rarely on both sides. — Herbs or under- 

 shrubs sometimes small shrubs {Erythrococca), shrubs or trees 



1 Small, insignificant, greenish. Liijihorb. 456, t. 9. fig. 6. — M. Arg. Prodr. 1139. 



^ A genus very nearly allied to Menurinlis. — Diplustijlis Sond. in Linncea, xxiii. 113. — Tri- 



' Spec. \. D. gkchomoides M. Arg. — D. Gay- anthemu Spkeng. MSS. (ex Turcz. lue. cit.). 



and H. Bn. I'jc. cit. — Hydrocotyle glechomoides Stamen cells in sect, often not free, but longi- 



RicH. Mon. Hydrocot. n. 14, t. 68, fig. 17. — DC. tudinally adnate to connective on both sides. 

 Prodr. iv. \1^—Bowlesia cnmata Desvx.— iio- « H. Bn. Biijihnrb. 465, t. 9, fig. 7.— M. Arg. 



Una Chilensis C. Gay. — Mirabellia glechomoida Prod. 947 {Trayiœ aeci. 11). 

 Bekt. Herb. ' Endl. luc. cit. a. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iii. 



*jHst. 534, t. 308.— Adans. Fam. dis PI. ii. 170.— Mercurialis M. Arg. Prodr. 794. 

 354.— J. &tn. 385.— GaiRTN. Pruct. ii. 114, t ^ A. Juss. Euphorb. 43, t. 14, fig. 43.— Endl. 



107,— PoiR fctDESROUSS. Hict. iv. 116; Suppl. Gen.n. 5790.— H. Bn. Eiiphurb. 491, t. 20, fig. 



iii. 665. — L.^MK. III. t. 820. — Spach, Suit, à 20-24.— M. Arg. inijHwtfa, xxxiv. 163 ; Prodr. 



Buffoii, ii. 520. — Endl. Geii. n. 5786. — A. Juss. 775 (incl. : Athroaiidra Hook. f. in Journ. 



liupJiorb. 46, t. 14, fig. 47.— Neés, Gen. fasc. 3. Linn. Soe. vi. 21 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 317.— 



— Payer, Organoy. 525, t. 110. — H. Bn. En- £iiclaoxylon M. Aho. Adenoclaoxi/loii M. Ana. in 



phorb, 488, t. 9, fig. 12-29 ; in Adansonia, iii. Flora (1864), 436, Viscoclaorylon M. Aug. loc. 



175. — M. Arg. Prodr. 794 (incl. : Adcnocline cit. 437, Gyinnoclaoxylon M. Arg. in Linntea, 



TuHcz. Claoxylon A. Juss. Erythrococca Benth. xxxiv. 169) — Erythrochilus Reinw. in Bl. Bijdr. 



Linozostis Endl. Mierocoeca Benth. Puradeno- 615. 

 cline'H.AviC.Seidcliull.V.^.Trismeyista'E.^Bh.). 'Benth. Niger, 506.- H. Bn. Euphorb. 437, 



5 Endl. loc. at. h.— Adcnocline Turcz. in t. 21, fig. 10.— M. Arg. Prodr. 790.— Enj- 



Bull. Mosc. (1843), 59 ; .(1852), ii. 179.— H. Bn, thranthe H. Bn. Euphorb. 490. 



