242 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



apetalous;^ sepals usually 5, imbricated, sometimes 6, 2-seriate 

 ( Cohiciroa.'^) Glands of disk 5, alternating with sepals, free or con- 

 nate in cup or ring. Stamens 5, opposite sepals ; filaments inserted 

 round rudiment of gynteceum ; anthers 2-locular ; cells long adnate 

 introrscly longitudinally [Securincgastrum'^) or sublaterally ( Gelfuga^\ 

 usually extrorsely (i^fer^//ca^) rimose. Germen 2-3-locular, in male 

 flower rudimentary, 2-8-partite, sometimes radiate produced between 

 base of stamens [Neorœpera'^)^ surrounded by disk (sometimes very 

 small) ;''' cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 2, 3, stigmatiferous, 2-fid or 

 2-lobed at apex. Fruit capsular, 2-3-coccus, rarely subfleshy, and 

 finally late or with difficulty dehiscing ; sometimes more rarely 

 baccate indéhiscent ; seeds smooth, often 3-agonal ; cotyledons of 

 albuminous embryo flat foliaceous. — Small trees or shrubs ; branches 

 2-stichous, sometimes spinescent at apex ; leaves alternate stipulate ; 

 flowers ^ axillary in 1-2- sexual cymes or glomerules.^ [All hot and 

 temp. rcgions.^°) 



128. Antidesma Burm." — Flowers dioecious, 3-8- or oftener 

 5-merous ; calyx lobes fi-ee at varied height, sometimes connate nearly 

 to apex ; prtefloration imbricated. Petals usually 0, rarely more or 

 less evolute {Antipetalum}'^) Stamens usually the same in number as 

 calyx lobes, more rarely more numerous or fewer (2-4); filaments 



1 Petals f sometimes the very minute sutu- {AdeUd); iv. 404, n. 2 {Phyllanllmsj.— 'W, 



late granduliform female ones are to be seen in Spec. iii. 758 (F/iyllant/ius) ; iv. 761 ; JEiium. 



Meineckia which, as it seems, Arg. scarcely PI. Berol. 329 {Xijlophylla). — Spreno. Syst. i. 



denies to be constant, referring the genua to 940 ; iii. 902 (Dri/pctes). — Ait. Sort. Kew. i. 



Securinega. 376 {Xylopf,i/lla).—'Bi,Aiic. Fl. de Filip. 486 



- Reut. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève, x. 240, (Cw»).— Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 583 [GeHera].— 



tab. Endl. Gen. n. 6865' [Coilmeroa). — H. Bl. Bijdr. 580 {Fhtggea). — Schum. et Thônn. 



Us. Euphorb. 668, t. 23, fig. iQ-2&.— ViUanova Bcskr. 416 {PhyUaHthus).—K. Rich. Tent. Fl. 



PouRR. (ex CuTAND. Fl. Madr. 595). Abyss, ii. 256.— Thw. Emmi. PI. Zeyl. 281 



3 M. Arg. Frodr. 447, sect. 1. (i^/!(^/7m),— Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 115, 116 



■* H. Bn. Euphorb. 593, sect. 3. {Neora'pcm) . — H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, i. SO ; ii. 



5 W. Spec. iv. 757 {Fluyyen).—A. Juss. Eu- 41; iii. 164; v. 346. 

 phorb. 16; t. 2, fig. 6.— Endl. Gen. n. 5860.— " Thes. Zeyl. 22.— L. Gen. n. 1110 (part.).— 



H. Bn. Euphorb. 596, t. 26, fig. 39-47. — Besscra 3. Gen. 443. — G-jertn. Fruet. i. 188, t. 39. — 



Spreno. Pugill. ii. 90. — Oeblera Fisch. et. Mey. Lamk. Bid. i. 206 ; Suppl. i. 402 ; III. t. 812. — 



Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. (1835), 28. — Endl. Qen. Endl. Gen. n. 1892. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 259. — 



n. 5865, Meineckia H. liN. Eiiplwrl. 586. TuL. in Ann. Sc. JS'at. sér. 3, xv. 182. — Schnizl. 



^ M. Arg. et F. Muell. Prodr. 488. Icon. fasc. 6. — H. Bn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. 



' In Ncorœpera the female flower often un- iv. 987 ; Eiipliorh. 611 ; in Adansonia, xi. 95. — 



cquallv 3-grandular. M. Arg. Prodr. 247. — Baker, Fl. Maurit. 305. 



' Very small, usually greenish or whitish. — Stilago Schrbb. in L. Gen. ed. 8, n. 1381. — 



' A genus diftering from Pliyllaiit/ius by Minutalia Fenzl. in Flora (1844), i. 312. — 



rudimentarj' gyna;ceum and male flowers. Bestram Adaks. Fam. des PI. ii. 354 (incl. : 



1° Spec, about 15, of which 2, 3, are American. Cyathogyne M. Auo. Sieronyina MART.Zcptonema 



p, Br. Jam. 355 [Acidoton). — PoiR. Bid. A. Jcs.s. Stilaginella TuL. Thecacoris A. Juss.). 



iv. 463, n. 4 {Rhamnus); Suppl. i. 132, n. 4. '^ M. Aro. in Flora (1864), 640; Prodr. 246. 



