224 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes truncate, exarillate, smooth or uuequally-rugose or 

 tuberculate ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo ovate. — Fruit some- 

 times decumbent, oftener scandent or voluble ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate penninerved or digitinerved, entire, dentate or lobed, some- 

 times compound ; leaves often petiolate ; inflorescence 2 -sexual 

 axillary pedunculate; bracts 2, usually large foliaceous, sometimes 

 coloured,' stipulate ; ^ female flowers laterally inferior, few (gene- 

 tally 3) cymose ; male superior in terminal contracted cymes ; female 

 cymes surrounded by a special plm-ibractiate involucre ; male above 

 accompanied laterally by fleshy reddish multicristate appendage 

 (sterile bractlets ?^) ; pedicels short articulate."* {/ill hot regions.^) 



93. Pera Mut,^ — Flowers diœcious apetalous ; male calyx 2-5- 

 partite or -fid, valvate, sometimes small or rudimentary. Stamens 

 2-10 often equal in number to sepals ; filaments central, shortly or 

 sometimes long {Schismatopera ') connate in column ; anthers in- 

 trorsely laterally or extrorsely 2-rimose. Calyx of female flowers 

 short or evolute ; sepals subfree or more or less high connate. Germen 

 central, 3-locular ; ovules solitary in cells ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior obturated ; style short thick, afterwards divided in large 

 entire or more or less deep crenate. Capsules 3-coccous ; cocci 

 2-valved ; endocarp usually solute ; micropyle of very albuminous 

 seeds with incrassate fleshy aril. — Trees,* glabrous sprinked with 

 fasciculate or lepidote haii-s ; leaves alternate or rarely opposite, 

 entire penninerved subcoriaceous exstipulate ; flowers axillary jJedi- 

 cellate subsolitary or few cymose included in involucre, involucre 



' Whitish, yellowish, or rather purpurascent. soiiia, i. 75, 277, 350 ; iii. 161 ; v. 309 ; vi. 16. 

 = Small, often whitish. ° In Abh. der Schwed. Akad. v. (1784), 299, 



:< Anthers deformate ? (Arg.). t. 18.— Kl. in EHchs. Arch. (1841), vii. 179.— 



< A genus constituting a peculiar sect. [Dele- Endl. Oeit. n. 5768 (Suppl. ii. 87). — H. Bn. 



chnmpieœ'iil. K'B.a.), îoTmeï\ypaxi 0Î Euphorbieœ Euphorb. 433, t. 2, fig. 25-27. — M. Ailo. Prodr. 



(A. Juss.). We think it allied to Plukeiietia, 1025. — Ferula, Schreb. Oeii. 703. — Spixia, 



differing from it by its abbreviate contracted Leandr. in Munch. Denkschr. vii. 231, t. 13. — 



anthers. Peridium Schott. in Spreiig. Cur. Post. App. 



5 Spec, ad 50. H. B. K. Nov. Oen. et Spec. 410.— Kl. loc. cit. 180, t. 7 ; in Hook. Journ. 



u. 98.— Endl. Atakt. t. 20, 21.— Bl. Bijdr. 632. (1843), ii.—Clistraiilhus Poit. MSS. (e.x H. Bn. 



— Wight, Icon. t. 1882. — Pœp. et Endl. iVot'. loc. cit.). 



Oen. et Spec. iii. 19, t. 222. — Griser, in Nachr. d. ' Kl. loc cit. t. 7. 



Wiss. Gœtt (1865), 181 ; FI. Brit. W.-Ini. 51.— 8 Habit in some respects that of Motiimia- 



Benth. Niger, 500. — M. Arg. inii«««!«, xxxiv. ceœ, Anonaccce or Ardisiacete. 



219; in Flora (1872), 45.— H. Bn. in Adcut- 



