EUPH0RB1ACE3:. 223 



Fragariopsis) ; male calyx-valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens cc, inserted 

 on more or less convex receptacle, either central or inserted round 

 rudiment of gyneeceum ; filaments confluent at base ; anthers 

 extrorse, 4-lobed ; cells 2, aduate at apex, diverged at base, often 

 deflexed, lougitudiually rimosc. I'emale calyx 4-6-partite, im- 

 bricRted. Disk urceolar, adhering to calyx, small or 0. Germen 

 3-4-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate, sometimes carinate or thickly subulate 

 at back ; style varied in form, thickly cylindrical or obovoid, or 

 obpyramidal, sometimes sublobose, stigmatiferous, subentire or 

 shortly lobed at apex ; furrows 3, 4, radians tumido-margiaate. 

 Fruit capsular ; mesocarp more or less thick or rather fleshy, solute 

 from cells of endocarp finally 2-valved ligneous; seeds exarUlate 

 albuminous. — Shrubs usually scandent ; ^ leaves alternate petiolate 

 stipulate penninerved or 3-5-nerved ; limb furnished with at base 

 2 glands and same number of stipels ; flowers in 2 -sexual axillary 

 racemes; female inferior 1- co ; others male.^ [All loarm regions.^) 



92. Balechampia Plim.* — Flowers monœcious apetalous; male 

 calyx valvate, 4-5-partite. Stameus subdefinite (5-10) or oftener co ; 

 filaments in central column cylincb-ical oi' subclavate, long 1- 

 adelphous, finally free; anther 2 -locular; cells longitudinally adnate, 

 extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 5-l5-partite; leaves imbricated or 

 valvate, entire or pinnatifid. Germen*^ 3-4-locular ; cells 1-ovulate; 

 style cylindrical or clavate at apex, or laterally more or less hollow 

 below apex inwardly stigmatiferous, entire or 3-6-lobed ; lobes small 

 equal or unequal, opposite cells alternating with them. Fruit cap- 

 sular 3-4-coccous elastically dehiscing ; seeds globose or ellipsoidal 



Oe». n. 5784. — A. Juss. Euphorb.il. — H. Bn. Lmiitea, xxiii. 110. — M. Abg. in Liiinma, xxxiv. 



Euphorb. 483.— M. Aeg. Prodr. 768.— Aiiabœna 157 ; in Flora (1864), 530. Griseb. Fl. Brit. 



A. JxTSS. EmjDo;*. 46, t. 15, fig. 48.— Exdl. Gen. W.-Iiid. 46. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iii. 160 



n. 57S5.—SttJorium, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iii. 98. {Sajorium) ; v. 309. 



— H. Bn. Euphorb. 480, t. 21, fig. Z,i.—Hedraio- " Nov. Gen. Amer. 17, t. 38.— L. Gen. n. 1081. 



atylusTAAS&K. Hort. Bog.Zi. — P<éTow(r»sHASSK. — Adans. .Faw. desPl.u.iôl. — J. Gch. 392. — 



in Flora (1842), Beibl. ii. 41 (nee Pall.). Lamk. Diet. ii. 256 ; Suppl. ii. 447 ; III. t. 788. 



' Some parts, especially the flower and fruit, — A. Juss. Euphorb. bb, t. 17, fig. 59. — H. Bn. 



imtued with a purple or subviolet juice. Euphorb. 58, 485, t. 3, fig. 16-33. — M. Arg. 



2 Sect. 5 : 1. Euplukenetm (M. Arg.) ; 2. Prodr. 1232.— Baxer, Fl. Maurit. 316. — Cremo- 



Cylindrophora (M. Arg.) ; 3. Anabœna (A. Juss); phyllum Schweidl. in Flora (1843), 514 ; inBot. 



4. Aiigostylidium (M. Arg.) ; 5. Hedraiostylus Zeit. (1849), 141. — Rhopalostylis Kl. MSS. (ex 



(Hassk.). H. Bn. in Adansoina, v. 317). 



' Spec, about 10. Eumph. Herb. Amboin. i. * In species sect. 1, surrounded with cupuli- 



193, t. 79 (6ff/oj-).— L. Spec. 1192.— W. Spec.iv. form disk. Champadelia (H. Bn. Euphorb. 485, 



614.— Sm. in Nov. Act. XTpsal. vi. 4.— Sond. in t. 3, fig. 31, 32). 



