EUPRORBIAOEJE. t>83 



cells 1 -ovulate; style cylintli-ical or long conical; branches 8, 

 usually short recurved, 2-lobed at apex ; inwardly sulcate and 

 papillose-stigmati ferons. Capsule 3-coccous; cocci 2-valved, 1- 

 S2)ermoiis ; seed subterete or aucipiti-compressed, arillate at micropyle ; 

 cotyledons of coj^iously albuminous embrj^o foliaceous, sometimes 

 lateral, — Trees ; juice milky ; leaves alternate penninerved coria- 

 ceous ; stipules caducous ; flowers in short terminal or oftener 

 axillary ramified cymifcrous racemes ; each cyme sub-capituliforra, 

 female flower central, finally laterally dejected iuvolucellate terminal. 

 Bracts of involucel generally 4, furnished at base mth lateral sessile 

 discoid glands, fijially lateral. Male flowers in axil of each bract 

 cymose ; cymes 1-parous ; pedicels articulate below calyx ; bracts 

 below inflorescence all lateral ; ' each stipate from an axillary glan- 

 duliforra^ bud. {West. trop. Africa, Madagascar?') 



VI. DICHAPETALE^. 



110. Dichapetalum Dup.-Th. — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous 5-merous ; receptacle convex, more rarely slightly or 

 sometimes much concave ; perianth and hence androceum superior, 

 more rarely semi-iuferior or all inferior. Sepals free or connate at 

 base, subequal, imbricated. Petals alternate fi-ee equal, cuculate- 

 2-fld or 2-lobed at apex, furnished at middle within with an inflexed 

 tongue or rather prominent vertical rib, induplicate valvate or sub- 

 imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments free ; anthers in- 

 trorse ; connective rather thick ; cells longitudinally riraose. Glands 

 of hypogynous disk 5, oppositipetalous, subentire or 2-lobed, free or 

 connate. Germen free, sometimes partly or all inferior and adnate 

 to concave receptacle, 2-3-locular ; ovules in cell 2, collaterally 

 descendent ; micropyle extrorse superior ; obturator small, sometimes 

 rather thick, or ; style divided above into 2, 3, branches, inwardly 

 stigmat itérons at apex. Fruit dry, coriaceous or drupaceous ; 

 putamen 1-3-locular, indéhiscent ; exocarp more or less fleshy, 

 longitudinally cut between cells. Seeds 1-3 ; cotyledons of thick 

 fleshy embryo jjlano- convex ; radicle short superior. — Small trees or 



' Cùmmon involucre (A. Juss.). ' Spec. 3. H. B.v. in Atlansonia, i. 78 j 



* Taken for glands of involucre (A. Juss.). 32 ; v. 366, not. 



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