218 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



times scandent or voluble, often with hispid urent hah's; leaves 

 alternate, 2-stipulate, petiolate penninerved or digitinerved at base, 

 entire, dentate, incised or sublobate ; flowers in terminal or oppositi- 

 folious racemes; racemes 2-fid ; branches 1 -sexual; some male; 

 others female ; or ofteuer 2-sexual ; 1 or few inferior flowers 

 female; others male oo .^ {All wm-m regions or rarely subtemp?') 



80. Zuckertia H. Bn.^ — Flowers moncccious ; male bud subpyri- 

 form, shortly apiculate ; calyx 5-partite, valvate. Stamens co (about 

 50) central inserted on conical egiandular receptacle ; filaments free ; 

 cells of extrorse anthers elongate apiculate longitudinally rimose. 

 Female sepals 6-8, 2-seriate imbricate. Germen 3-locular ; cells 

 opposite exterior sepals, 1-ovulate ; style more or less flexuose, 

 dilated at apex, afterwards divided in revolute simple branches in- 

 wardly much papillose. Fruit . . . ■? An undershrub ( ?) voluble , 

 bail's simple (stinging ? ) ; leaves alternate long petiolate stipulate 

 widely cordate-ovate, penninerved, sub-3-plinerved at base ; flowers 

 in lateral oppositifolious racemes 2 -furcate, the branch bearing now 

 male, now female racemes.* {Mexico.^) 



81. Leptorachis Kl.^ — Flowers, nearly of ZMC^er^^«, monœcious ; 

 male calyx valvate, û-5-partite. Stamens co , central ; filaments 

 free sometimes dilated above ; anthers basifixed elongate, straight 

 or curved, introrsely rimose. Female sepals 6-7, imbricated, some- 

 times pinnatifid ( Ctenomeria ^). Germen, style and Iruit as in 

 Trayia. Other characters of Zuckertia^ — Perennial voluble herbs ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate stipulate, 3-5-nerved ; flowers loosely race- 

 mose; inferior in axillary or sometimes oppositifolious racemes 



1 Sect. 9 : 1. JEutragia (M. Aro.) ; 2. Satiga 162 ; v. 305 ; vi. 320. 



(M. Arg.) ; 3. Lassia (H. Bn.) ; 4. Tagira (M. ^ Eujihorb. 495, t. 4, fig. 10-13. 



Arq.) ; 5. Affirta (H. Bn.) ; 6. Lciccaiidra (Kl ) ; ■• Somewhat allied to gen. Tragia, sect. Bia, to 



7. Bia (Kl.) ; 8. Admotragia (M. Arg.); 9. be distinguished from it on the same ground as 



Leptobotrijs (H. Bn.). from Leptorachis. 



" Spec. 45-50. Rheede, So;-*. Malab. ii. 72, ' Spec. 1. Z.cordata, H. Bn. loc. cit. — Tragia 



t. 39 (Schorigeram). — Sw. Obs. 353. — jAca. Ic. Hail/oniana M. Arg. in Liiinaa, xxxiy. 178 ; 



Mar. t. 190. — H. B. K. Nn-. Qen. et Spec.'û. Prodr. 927. In habit similar to American Pfa- 



92. — Vellos. Fl. Fiiim. x. t. 6.— MicHX. Fl. kenctia. 



Bor.-Am. ii. 176.— Pœpp. et Endl. \ov. Gai. « In Erichs. Arch. (1841), 189.— Endl. Oen. 



et Spec. iii. 20, t. 223.— Bl. Bijdr. 630.— Benth. Suppl. ii. 89.— H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 495.— M. Aeg. 



Niger, 501. — Sond. in Linnœa, xxiii. 107. — Prudr. 925. 



Geiseb. in Nachr. d. Oes. Wiss. Gœtt. (1866), ^ Harv. in Hook. Jnnrii. (1842), 29.— Endl. 



176 ; Fl. Brit. W.-Iiid. 48.— M. Aro., in Flora Gen. Suppl. iii. 98.— II. Bn. Eiiphorb. 494. 



(18G4), 436, 538 ; in Seem. Joiirn. i. 333.— H. 8 Between this genus and Tragia. 

 Bn. in Adansonia, 75, 275, 276 (Lassia) ; iii. 



