220 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or 6-8 ; the 2-4 interior, alternating with the exterior ; filaments 

 tree inserted round rudiment of gynœceum, entire or rarely 2-3-fid 

 {Eucephalocr^ton^) gemiflexo-plicate-produced in bud, finally erect and 

 esserted ; anthers in bud and after unfolding always iutrorse, longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Female calyx 4-6-fld or partite, imbricated. 

 Germen 3-locular ; glands of hypogynous disk same in number, 

 alternating with calyx lobes coloured {Chloradenia'^) or {Eucephalo- 

 croton^ Adenochlœna ^) ; cells 1-ovulate ; style branches irregularly 2 

 or 2-3-chotomous ramified ; twigs papillose-stigmatiferuus. Capsule 

 3-coccous ; seeds subglobose exarillate. — Small trees or shrubs ; 

 indumentum usually stellate ; leaves alternate or subopposite petio- 

 late stipulate reticulated ; male flowers terminal glomerate-capitate ; 

 the female below or at remote axils few solitary or pedunculate. 

 (Trop. Asia, Ind. Arch., Eastern Cont. and Ins. Africa.'^') 



y5 ? Coelodepas Hassk.'' — " Flowers monœcious apctalous ; male 

 calyx 3, 4-fid valvate; the female 4-10-partite. Stamens 5-6; 

 exterior alternating with the sepals ; filaments thick inserted round 

 rudiment of gynseceum ; anther cells pendillons, free below, in- 

 trorsely rimose. (lermen o-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; posterior 2 ; 

 style branches 3, wide, 2-lobed ; lobes inciso-pluridentate palmate 

 expanded. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds exarillate ; embryo (coloured) 

 albuminous." — A Javanese tree ; leaves alternate stipulate simple 

 largly serrate, 2-glandular at base ; flower in slender spikes, some- 

 times ramified at base; the inferior 1, 2, female; peduncles stellate- 

 tomentose ; male bracts œ -florous." {Java.') 



86. Symphyllia H. Bn.* — Flowers monœcious (nearly of Ccphalo- 

 croton) ; male calyx valvate, 3-6-partite. Stamens same in number 

 (of Cephalocroton) alternating with the sepals, inserted below 

 rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers 2-locular ; cells introrsely 

 rimose longitudinally adnate, basifixed imbedded, below to a con- 

 siderable extent free, always erect, emarginate on both sides. 



1 M. Aro. Frodr. 761, sect. 2. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 276. 



^ H. BxV. Eiiphorh. ill, t. 19, fig. 2i, 25.— M. * In Flora (1867), 531 ; in Retzia, 44; in 



Akg. Frodr. 760, sect 1. — Adcnogymim Reichb. Bnll Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 713. — M. Aeg. Frodr. 



F. et ZoLL. Oi'. Soort. v. Fottl. 20 ; in Liimœa, 769.—Koilodepas Hassk. in Sot. Zeit. (1856) 802. 

 xxviii 325. • c A genxia whose flowers are unknown to us, 



' BvN. MSS. ex H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 472. — M. Ijut from description it might he better reduced 



Aro. Frodr. 762, sect 3. — Centrosti/lis H. Bn. to a section of Cephalocroton, àiSeriag hy jiaxtlj 



Euphorb. 469, t. 2, fig. 28, 29. free anther cells. 



< Spec, ad 6. Hassk. Sort. Bon. ^^- "o'^- 28 7 Spec. 1. C. bantamenseHiaiii.. loc. cit. 



{Adetio(/!/iiwit).— Kl. in Fet. Mossnmb. Bot. 99. s Euphorb. 473, t. 11, fig. 6, 7.— M. Arg. 



Thw. Emm. PI. Zeijl. 270 {Admoc/il(em).—Il. Frodr. 763. 



