238 NATURAL IflSTORY OF PLANTS. 



(Chit/tiandra^) ; receptacle convex or rather concave. Perianth 

 hypogynous or slightly perigynoris, generally 5-merous ; sepals 

 imbricated ; petals imbricated or naiTow not touching. Glands of 

 extrastaminal disk oppositipetalous, free or connate in membraneous 

 crenate urceolum. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted on receptacle 

 scarcely or not at all elevated above variously shaped rudimentary 

 gynteceum ; filaments free or ottener l-adelphous ; anthers introrse 

 or lateral; cells short longitudinally rimose. Germen 3-locular; 

 cells 2-ovulate; style branches 3, stigmatiferous, 2-fid or 2-lobed at 

 apex. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds albuminous exarillate, — Shrubs, 

 imdershrubs or herbs ; stem erect or decumbent ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate penninerved or sub-3 -nerved ; flowers^ axillary solitary or 

 cymose, more rarely in cymiferous racemes ; female pedicels thicker 

 longer.^ (JIl warm cmd temp, regions:'^) 



119. Poranthera Eudge.^ — Flowers mouœcious ; receptacle sub- 

 plane or rather convex. Sepals 5, imbricated and petals same in 

 niimbcr, shorter, imbricated. Glands of disk 5, oppositipetalous, 2- 

 lobed. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments from three laminae 

 under rudimentary gyna^ceum membraneous subpaleaceous con- 

 stantly obovate, free finally elongated and much incurved ; 

 anthers basifixed; cells 4, shortly subporicide rimose at apex. 

 Germen 3-locular ; cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 3 from base, 2- 

 partite papillose stigmatiferous. (Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds generally 

 6, subglobose foveolate ; semicylincb-ical cotyledons of terete embryo 

 subequal to or shorter than radicle. — Herbs or cricoid undershrubs, 

 erect or diffuse ramified ; leaves alternate stipulate narrow linear ; 



fig. 29. — Nees, Gen. ii. t. 39. — Endl. Gm. n. whence to Amanoa, diflcniig from the seetion, 



5811. — H. Bn. Euphorh. bib, t. 27, fig. 18.— M. with hypogynous oppositipetalous glands by 



Arg. Prod/r. 232.— Telephioides T. Inst. Cor. 50, habit. 



t. 485. — Arachne Neck. .Efcm. n. lli^.—Erac- ■• Spec, about 12 La.mk. i?(>^ ii. 212, n. 35 (CVo- 



/m« FoKSK. Dcscr. Oeij.-Arub. 20S.—Limetim ton).— Si'iœna. Si/xl. iii. SSi.SiBTH. Fl. Grœc. 



FoBSK. loc. cit. (nee L.). — MaschaUiUhus x. t. 953. — Kbichb. Ic. Fl. Girm. v. tig. 4807.— 



NuTT. Fl. Arkaiis. (nee Auctt.). — Leptopus Done, in An». Mus. iii. 484. — Schbele, in 



Done, in Voy. Jacquem. Bot. iv. 155, t. 156. — Liuncca, xxt. 583 {Cluytia). — Sond. in Ziniicea, 



Lcpidanthus Nutt. MSS. (ex Tokr. Mex. Bound. xxiii. 135 {Fki/llant/ms) .—BoE. Enum. PI. Chin. 



Sttrp.l9S).—Phi/l/ant/wpsisScuEEL.iaLinn(C(i, 59.— Kl. in Waldem. Reh. Ill , t. 2i {Flii/llan- 



XXV. 584. — FhijUnnthidiii Diedr. Fl.nonn. Mus. 1/in.i). — Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 365. — Boiss. 



hafn. (1853), 29. Dirigii. PI. Ur. vii. 86.— M. Arg. in Linnœa, 



'M. Arg. in Seem. Jumn. (1864), 328; xxxii. 78.— H. Bn. in^(fa»5o«!«, iii. 153; vi.334. 



Frodr. 225. i> In Trans. Liim. Soc. x. 302, t. 22, fig. 2.— 



2 Small usually gi-eenish yeUowish or Ad. Br. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 1, xxix. 383. — 



whitish. Endl. Gen. n. 5859.— H. Bn. Euphorh. 573, t. 



' A genus hence nearly allied to Phyllanthm 25, fig. 1-9. — M. Arg. Prodi: 191. 



