ËUPHORBIACE^. 218 



central ; filanieuts free or 1 -adelphous at base ; anthers iutrorse or 

 extrorse. Female calyx 4-6-partite, imbricated. Germen surrounded 

 by cupular disk (or 0) 2— 3-locular ; cells 1-ovvilate ; style more or less 

 high or nearly to base 2-3 -ramose ; branches simple or 2 -fid, some- 

 times 2-partite, more rarely rather wide or subpetaloid, stigmatife- 

 rous within. Capsule sometimes outwardly rather fleshy 2-3- 

 locular ; seeds smooth or tuberculate, exarillate or scantily arUlate. 

 ■ — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate stipulate penninerved or oftener 

 3-5-plinerved, entire or more rarely dentate or crenate ; ^ flowers in 

 cymiferous or glomeruliferous spikes or racemes ; bracts often 2- 

 glandular at base.^ {All hot regions'^). 



71. Mareya H. Bn.* — Flower (nearly of Jlchornea), monoecious; 

 male calyx 3-4-partite, valvate. Stamens oo , or 8-20 ; filaments 

 inserted on small glandular receptacle ; anther cells free clavate pen- 

 dulous from glandular connective, finally ascendent, extrorsely 

 rimose ; sepals of female 4, 5 ; the exterior 2, 3, subvalvate ; the 

 interior either 2 or sometimes others smaller, imbricated. Disk 

 hypogynous evolute ; lobes sometimes unequal membraneous alter- 

 nating with germen cells. Germen (in male flower sometimes but 

 rarely rudimentary), sessile 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style branches 

 3, oblong long papillose-stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds 

 smooth ; micropyle not at all or slightly arillate. — A tree ; leaves 

 alternate, petiolate glandular-maeulate, 2-stipulate ; flowers crowded^, 

 glomerate-spicate axillary ; the female usually in central glomerules ; 

 others male. (Trop. West Africa!'') 



72 ? Cephalomappa H. Bn ''. — Flowers monœcious apctalous ; 

 male calyx obconical, verruculose at apex, unequally 2-4-fid, valvate. 

 Stamens 2-4 (oftener 3) ; inserted on common central stipes ; other 



1 Limb below at base glandular 2-6 macu- Ind. iii. 693 (Sapium). — Pœpp. el Endl. Nov. 



late, hence afterwards often sparingly macu- Ge%. et Spec. iii. 18, t. 221. — Casah. i\ov. Slirp. 



late. 24, n. 20. — Benth. Niger. 507. — Kl. in Hook. 



- Sect, (ex M. Akg.) 10, scil. ; 1. PaUsxya Journ. (1843), 46.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 



(H. Bn.) ; 2. Wvtria (H. Bn.) ; 3. Concevcibum 46. — M. Arg. in Seem. Journ. i. 333 (Lejndoiii- 



(A. Jvss.) ; 4. Stipellaria (Benth.) ; 6. Orfilea riis). — H. Bn., in Adaiisonia, i. 73, 274, 285 



(H. I5n.) ; 7. Laurembergia (H. Bn.) ; 8. Sidal- - [rulissi/a) ; v. 307 {Aparisthiiiinm) ; vi. 321 



choriiea (M, Arg.) ; 9. Cladodes (Lour.) ; 10. iCladudes) ; xi. 175, n. 76. 



Cœlebogi/iie (Su.) ; II. Miale/iornea (il. Aao). — ■< In Adansonia, i. 73. — M. Arg. Prodr. 



To which may be added; 6. lepidoturus (H. 792. 



Bn.) from its slightly carunculate seed generi- s Small, whitish, fragrant, 



cally separated in Prodr. (898) and (better ?) o One spec. M. leoneiisis, very variable. — 



V2. Alchorneupsiv (M. Aug. Prodr. 7 di), an in- M. spicnla,H. Bn, loe. cit.li. — M. micraiitha 



completely known stirps generically distinct M. Arq. loe. cit. — Acali/pha leonensis Benth, 



by its free anther cells, unequal valves. ^^"jcr, 504. — A. micrant ha Behth. loe. cit. 



3 Spec, ad 40. H. B. PL ^quin. i. 162, t. 46.— 505. 

 Mart, in Flora (1841), ii, Beibl. 31 — Roxb. Fl. In Adansonio, xi. 130. 



