ETJPIIOHBIAOEJË. 211 



{Claoxylon); leaves opposite {Linosostis) or alternate;^ stipules mem- 

 braneous or glandular, sometimes indurate and spinescent {Erythroc- 

 coca) ; flowers ~ axillary or terminal, in simple or more or less rami- 

 fied-cymiferous or more usually glomeruliferous spikes.^ {All warm 

 and tern. rcg. of the Old World}) 



67. Tetrorchidium Poepp. and Endl.^ — Flowers diœcious, ape- 

 talous, 3-merous ; male sepals valvate or slightly imbricate. Sta- 

 mens 6," in pairs opposite sepals; filaments free short, inserted below 

 rudimentary gynsBceiim (sometimes wanting), each bearing at apex 

 4 discrete peltate finally ascendent cells, extrorsely rimose. Female 

 calyx imbricated. Germen 3-locular; 1 -ovulate, alternating with 

 sepals ; style branches short thick subsessile, reflexo-adpressed at 

 summit of germen. Glands of disk 3, hypogynous linear subpeta- 

 loid, alternating with cells and sepals. Fruit capsular; columella 

 small very little or scarcely evolute ; cocci 3 or 2, 1 -spermous ; seeds 

 short foveolate submembrancous-arillate ; embryo albuminous. — Trees 

 and shrubs ; leaves alternate, entii-e or crenate ; petiole patelliform- 

 glandiliferous on both sides below apex ; flowers in spikes or racemes, 

 female simple, male ramified-glomeruliferous ; bracts patelliform 

 2-glandular. {Trop. America Cont. and Antiliy) 



68. Hasskarlia II. Bn.** — Flowers (nearly of Tetrorchidium) dioe- 

 cious ; male calyx valvate. Germen cells opposite sepals (hence 

 alternating with glands of disk). Other characters as in Tetrorchi- 

 dium. — A shrub; leaves alternate stipulate subentire penninerved ; 

 male flowers in spikes opposite leaves naked glomeruliferous, naked 

 at base; female in 1 or few flowered cymes, opposite leaves.^ {Trop. 

 West. Africa}") 



1 Like nearly the whole plant, dry, caerules- Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 386 {Claoxijlon). — Hook. f. 

 cent. Some parts imbued with blackish juice. in Joiirii. Lmn. Soc. vi. 20 (Claajylon). — M. 



2 Usually very small virescent ; lutescent or Aro. in Liiniaa, xxxiv. 163; in ii'/oj-a (1864), 

 more rarely pm-purescent. 318, 436 ; in Seem. Journ. i. 333 [Cluoxi/lun). — 



■'' Sect, in gen. 7 (H. Bn.), scil. : 1. Linozostis H. Bn. in Ailaiisonia, i. 70 {Micncocca), 76, 125, 



(Endl.); 2. Trismeffista (Endl.) ; 3. Seicielia 279, 350; ii. 227(C/«7oa-y/oH);iii. 158, 167; vi.322. 



(H. Bn.); i. Paraclenoeliiie (M. Aro. Pmiii: ^ Nov. Geii. et fijxc. ii'i. 23, t 227.— Esvl. Gcii. 



1141) ; 5. Claoxylon (A. Juss.) ; 6. Athroaiidra n. 5818 i.— H. Bn. Eufhorh. 439, t. 21, fig. 14- 



(HoOK. F.) ; 7. Enjthrococca (Benth.). 18; in Adansoiiia, xi. 101. — Arq. Prodr. 1132 



■■ Spec, ad 55. L. Spec. 1036, ed. 3, 1391 [Tetrorchidmi) . 



(Trayia).— Thunb. Fl. Cap. (ed. Sch.), 546 6 Qr 3 ; anthers 4-celled (Arc). 



(^Acahjpha).— Voir. Diet. vi. 204 [Acali/plia); ? Spec, ad 3. H. Bn. in Adaiisonii, v. 22Ô. — 



Suppl. i. 132 (.4rfe«ff).— Reiohb. Ic. Fl. Oerm. M. Aro. in Flora (1864), 538. 



fig. 4801-4804.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. ' In Adaiixoiiia i. 52; xi. 101.— Arg. Prodr. 



98.— Coss. PI. Crit. 63. — Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. 774. 



Fain. — Meissn. in Hooh. Joitni. (1843), 557.— ' A genus nearly allied to rrtrocc/nV/iMm, differ- 



E. Mey. in Lnimea, iv. 237. — SoNU. in Liiiutea, ing by oppositisepalous ovarj' culls and oppo- 



xxiii. 111. — Kvnze in Liniiœa, xx. 56; xxiv. sitifolius inflorescence. 



162.— Boj. Hort. Maur. 284 (Wrto-n/^o;/).— Mia. i" Spec. 1. H. didtjmusteimi, H. Bn. lue. cit. 



