EUPHORBIAOE^S. 226 



bud-shaped or sacciform, 1-2-brokenly-rimose, 1-2-valved, surrounded 

 at the base with 1 or few unequal bractlets ; ^ male flowers surrounded 

 within the involucre by a few rudiments (various in form) of female 

 flowers.^ ( Warm Americu?) 



IV. CEOTONE^. 



94. Croton L. — Flowers monœcious or more rarely diœcious, 4-6, 

 generally ô-mcrous; male sepals valvate or more or less imbricate. 

 Petals imbricate or oftener finally sub-valvate, sometimes not touch- 

 ing. Glands of disk free alternipetalous. Stamens either sub- 

 definite or definite, sometimes 10, 2-seriate or 5-8, oftener 15-co , 

 CO -seriate ; filaments free inserted in convex often villose receptacle, 

 infracto-incurved in the bud ; anthers introrse (on account of the in- 

 curvation of the filaments extrorse in the bud), finally oscillating- 

 erect. Germen rudimentary, sometimes 0. Glands of hypogynous 

 disk free or connate, often thick. Germen 3- or more rarely 2- or 

 4-locular ; ovule in cell 1, descendent; micropylo extrorse superior, 

 obtccted by obturator ; style from base or more or less high 3-lobed 

 or partite ; branches simple 2- or 3- co-fid incurved or involute 

 stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule usually 3-coccous, sometimes with 

 difficulty or late dehiscing ; cocci 2-valved ; seeds arillate at micro- 

 pyle ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo foliaceous, much wider than 

 radicle. — Trees, shrubs or undershrubs, or more rarely herbs ; indu- 

 mentum usually stellate or lepidote ; leaves alternate or sub-verti- 

 cillate, entire or variously incised or lobed, penninerved or digiti- 

 nerved at base ; stijniles lateral, entii-e or more or less divided, some- 

 times glanduliform ; inflorescence terminal; flowers in racemes or 

 spikes, simple or more or less ramified ; female in 2 -sexual inflo- 

 rescence inferior 1 or few, sometimes co ; others male superior soli- 

 tary, in axils of bracts or few oo, cymose or glomerate. {All Jiot 

 regions.) See p. 129. 



1 Often corresponding to clefts of involucre. ' Spec. 16, 17. Schrank in Obserr. Acad. 



^ A genus remarkable for its enormous bud- Miinch. vii. 242 (^Spixia). — ? H. B. K., Nuv. 



like inflorescence, formerly constituting a family Gen. et. Spec. vii. 191 [Myristiea). — Mart. Herb. 



or section of Prosopidoclbieœ, (Kl.). Now 5 sect. : Fl. Bras. 270 (Spij-ia). — Benth. in Hov/i. Joui-ii. 



1. Eupera (H. Bn.) ; 2. Neopcra (Griseb.) ; 3. (1854), 322 (P«W/kh().— Griseb. in Nachr. d. 



Spixia (Leandr.) ; 4. Pmrfiwrn (Sohott), 5. inss.Gœtt.{l%&b),\iO;Fl.Brit.W.-liid.6l.— 



Schismatopeia (Kl.). H. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 222. 



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