EVPHORBIACE^. 2l9 



(^Ctenonieria) 1, or more rarely few (sometimes 0) female; the rest 

 male oo , [South Brazil.,^ South Africa?) 



* 

 82. Bocquillona H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male 



calyx 2-3-partite. Stamens 2, 3, central ; filaments central or in- 

 serted on glandular receptacle, below small ru.diment of short 

 gynseceum, connate at base ; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Female 

 calyx 4-5-fid or partite ; j^rasfloration ... ? Germen 3-locular ; 

 cells 1 -ovulate; style branches 3, sessile or subsessile, carnose-sub- 

 petaloid, 3-angular-obovate, more or less creuate plicate papillose 

 within, sometimes subeariuate. Capsule 3-coccous, often villosulose ; 

 seeds slightly or not arillate at micropyle. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 branches often thick ; leaves alternate simple, sometimes penni- 

 nerved, entire sinuate or dentate ; petiole usually short-2 -stipulate ; 

 male flowers small crowded densely glomerulate in wood of branches ; 

 female subracemose or oftener subcanitate, cymose in wood of 

 branches, often shortly pedunculate."* (iV. Caledonia!') 



83? Cladogynos Zipp." — "Flowers monœoious;^ male calyx 

 coloiu-ed, 2-3-partite, valvate. Stamens 4, central ; filaments connate 

 at base ; anthers introrsely rimose. Female calyx large foliaceous, 

 6-fld. Germen 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style 3-fld glandular- 

 plumose ramified. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds solitary in cells carun- 

 culate. — An erect simply ramified whitish-tomentose shi-ub ; leaves 

 petiolate subpeltate repaudo-dentate sub-3-lobcd, reticulate tomentose 

 below ; male flowers capitate-congested ; female long pedicellate.^ " 

 [Timor ^ Celebes.^) 



84. Cephalocroton Hochst."^ — Flowers monœcious apetalous ; 

 male calyx valvate, 3-4-partite. Stamens 4, alternating with sepals 



1 Spec. 1. Z. hastata Kl. he. cit. Arg. Prodr. 895. 



- Spec. 1. L. capeiisis M. Aro. Prodi: 926. — ^ " Androgyni," as they say. 



Tragia capeiisis Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 14. — ' A genus quite unknown to us, and of dubious 



Ctenomeria corduta Harv. loc. cit. — H. Bn. in affinity ; whether a species of Cephalocroton sect. 



Adansonia, iii. 161. — C. Kraussiaim Hochst. in C/iloradeiiia, orthe aa,Tae a.s Calpigi/neBL. (p. 152, 



Flora (1845), 85.— SoND. in Liiinœa, x.xiii. 110. not 1, 4°) ? 



5 In Adansonia, ii. 225. — M. Arg. Prodr. ' Spec. 1. C. orieiitalis Zipp. loc. cit. — Con- 



894. ceveibum tomentosum Span. loc. cit. (nee. 



■* A genus remarkable from its peculiar Spreno.). 



habit. "' In Flora (1841), 370.— Endl. Gen. n. 



* Species yet known 6. M. Aro. in Linnœa, 0796'.- H. Bn. Euphorb. 474, t. 18, fig, 24-27 ; 



xxxiv. 166. — H. Bn. op. cit. ii. 226 ; xi. 127. in Adansonia, v. 147. — M. Abo. in Linnaia, 



^ Ex Span, in Linntea, xv. 349. — Endl. xxxiv. 165 ; in Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen. xvii. 460, 



Gen. Suppl. ii. 89.— H. Bn. Eiiphorh. 468.— M. fig. D, 1-4 ; Prodr. 760. 



