EUPHORBIACE^. 245 



131. Bicheria Vahl.* — Flowers dioecious apetalous; sepals 3-5, 

 imbricate. Stamens same in number opposite inserted round rudi- 

 mentary gynseceum ; filaments finally long exserted and twisted ; 

 anthers oblong introrse {Guarania"\ or extrorse {Podocalyx^), longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Glands 5, alternating with stamens surrounding 

 base of rudimentary gyna)ceuin. Disk of female flowers usually 

 ui-ceolate. Germen o-locular ; ovules 2-uate ; obturator usually 

 thick ; style branches 3, short, rather wide caniculate within, revo- 

 lute at margin, at apex sub-2-lobed. Capsule 3-coccous ; cocci solute 

 from columella 3 -winged above ; valves dehiscing from base; seeds 

 albuminous. — Trees ; leaves alternate simple peuuinerved, sometimes 

 denticulate above petiolate 2-stipulate ; male flowers * in axillary 

 glomeruliferous spikes or racemes ; female at base of branches 

 spicate. {South America^ Antilles^') 



132 ? Dissiliaria F. Muell.*' — Flowers diœcious (?) ; male oo- 

 androus (?). Female calyx 6-8-phyllous ; folioles 2-seriate im- 

 bricated ; the interior larger. Germen suiTOunded by cupular disk 

 sometimes denticulate at base ; cells 3, 4, opposite exterior sepals; 

 ovules in each 2 ; obturator thick; style branches 3, entii'e or sub- 

 entire recui-ved, inwardly stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-4-coccous ; 

 exocarp thick solubile ; cocci 1-2-spermous ; seeds exarillate albu- 

 minous. Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or more rarely 3-nate, 

 entire or crenulate, penninerved reticulate ; female flowers in 

 terminal simple or cymiferous racemes.'^ [Australia.^) 



133. Hymenocardia Endl." — Flowers diœcious apetalous (nearly 

 of Antidesma or Ajmrosa) ; calyx 5- or more rarely C-7-dentate, 

 valvate or subimbricate. Stamens same in number inserted round 

 base of entire rudiment of gyuteceum ; anthers ovoid introrse ; cells 

 longitudinally adnate, longitudinally rimose. Germen compressed, 

 2-locular ; cells 2-ovulate; style branches 2, subfree elongated long 



» Hcloff. Amer. i. 30, t. 4.— A. Juss. Euphurb. {Guarani a); vi. 16. 



16. — Endl. Ooi. n. 5861. — H. Bn. Enphorh, « Ex H. Bn. in Adansonia, vii. 356, t. 1. 



597. ' Cfr. Choriceras (p. 240, n. 124.) 



2 H. Bn. Euphorb. 598. " Spec. 2, 3. H. Bn. loc. cit. 359.— Benth. 



s Kl. in Erivhs. Arch. (1841), vii. 202 ; in Fl. Austral, vi. 90. 



Sook. Loud. Journ. ii. 52. — H. Bn. Euphorb. ' Geii. n. 1899. — TuL. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 



597. 3, XV. 256.— H. Bn. in Bull. Soe. Bot. de Fr. 



* Small crowded. iv. 994 ; Euphorb. 599, t. 27, fig. 24, 25.— M. 



5 Spec. 2, 3. W. Spec. iv. 1122.— Roem. et Akq. in Flora (1864), 518; Frodr. 476.— 



ScH. Syd. V. 271. — P(Epr. et Endl. Nov. Gen. Samaropyxù Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 464, 



et Spec. iii. 22, t. 226 (4»ia«oo).— Griseb. Fl. 621. 

 Brit. W.-Ind. 31.— H. BN.in Adansonia, v. 347 



