236 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



spirally many times convolute. — Trees or small trees ; leaves 

 alternate penuinerved entire stipulate ; flowers proceeding from 

 axillary buds ; male cymose few or ; female longer and thicker 

 pedicellate mixed with male few or solitary cymose.' {South Asia 

 and trop. Oceania?) 



116 ? Discocarpus Kl.'^ — Flowers diœcious (nearly of Actephila); 

 receptacle slightly concave. Sepals 5, sub-perigynous/' imbricated. 

 Stamens inserted round rudiment of gynteceum not produced; 

 anthers introrse oblong, afterward exserted- Female calyx 5-phyllous. 

 Petals evolute, rudimentary or partly wanting. Extrastaminal disk, 

 staminodes gynseceum ovules and capsule of Jctejfhila ; seeds mem- 

 braneous-arillate ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo foliaceous 

 plicate or sub-convolute. — Trees ; twigs spinescent at apex ; flowers 

 axillary; male glomerulate; female flowers cymose very shortly 

 pedicellate.^ {Trop. South America ") 



117. Amanoa Acbl.' — Flowers monoecious or more rarely 

 diœcious 5-mcrous rarely 3-6-merous; receptacle more or 

 less sometimes little {Euamanoa,^ Stcnonia,^ Pentahrachium^^) 

 concave and cupvilar. Perianth inserted at margin of re- 

 ceptacle more or less high perigynous ; sepals much imbricated 

 or obliquely cut at margin sub-valvate {Euamanoa, Pcntabra- 

 chium), oftener all valvate {Bridetia,^'^ Lcbidieropsis,'^'- Stenonia, 



1 A genus much allied to fSavia (of which it Bid. i. IH ; III. t. 767. — Ami. Juss. Euphorh.lb, 

 might be a section P), differs by usually slight t. 2,fig. 6. — Endl. Gch. n. 58G2. — '3..'&îi.Euphorb. 

 perigynous character, albumen scarcely mucous 679, t. 26, fig. 48-50; in Aclaiisoi/ia, xi. 115. — 

 or 0, cotyledons large plicate or large and M. Aug. Pi-odi: 219, 1269 (incl. : Bridelia W. 

 spirally convolute. Ciindctabria Hochst. Clcistaiitlms Hook. r. 



2 Spec, ad 8. Wight, Icon. t. 1910. — Mia. Zcl/itlieni K.^iti. LcbittieropsisM. Aro. Lciopi/xis 

 Fl. Iiid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 356. — Thw. £iium. I'l. MiQ. Micropctalum Poit. Nanopetalum Hasbk. 

 Zci/l. 280.— Has.sk. Horf. Bog. 243 {Savia). — Pentabruchiuit M. Arg. Pciitamcria Kl. Slenonia 

 LiNDL. Coll. t. 9 [Seciirineija). — H. Bn. Euphorh. H. Bn. Zaicoa, Llan.). 



571 (.S<«i«). — M. Arg. in Liiuicca, xxxii. 77; ^ H. Bn. Evphorb. 580, sect. 1. — Amanoa 



xxxiv. 65 (i/(/«(.ryfo«).— Benth. Fl. Austral. M. Plug. Prodi: 219. 



vi. 88.— H. Bn. m Adaiisonia, yi. ZZO. " H. Bn. Euphorb. 578, t. 22, fig. 2-9; in 



3 In Erichs. Arch. yii. 201, t. 9, fig. C; in Adiummia, x\. 116.— M. Arg. Prodr. 511. 

 Soolc. Jonrn. (1843), 62.— Endl. Geii. n. 5864'. '" M. Aug in Flora (1864), 632 ; Prodr. 223. 

 — H. Bn. Eiiphorli. 585, t. 22, fig. 1.— M. Aito. " W. Sjjcc. iv. 979.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 26, 

 Prodr. 223. t. 7, fig. 22 (i?/ infe//ff).— Endl. Gen. n. 5839.— 



■• Usually unequal. H. Bn. Euphorb. 582, t. 25, fig. 25-33.— M. 



' A genus much bettor made a section of Arg. I'rodr. 492. — Zarcoa Llan. in Mem. Ac, 



Actipldla or referred to Amanoa. Cieiie. Madrid, iv. 501. — Candelabria Hochst. in 



* Spec. 2. M. Arg. in Zinnœa, xxxii. 78.— Flura (1843), i. "id.—Pentameria Kl. ex H. Bn. 



H. Bn. in Adun.ionia, v. 346. in Adonso/iia, ii. 39. 



' Giiian. i. 256, t. 10. — J. Ge/i. 437. — Lamk. '^ M. Arg. in Liiinaa, xxxii. 79 ; Piudr. 609. 



