248 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



inwardly stigmatiferous, and sulcate afterwards strictly reflexed to 

 germon. Fruit . . . ? — A tree (?); leaves ^ alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate 

 digitate ; folioles 3, subsessile penninerved, subentire or crenulate ; 

 male flowers in slender ramified spikes axillary or springing from the 

 wood of the branches of the preceding year ; branches of spikes fili- 

 form puberulate rather remotely glomeruliferovis ; the female in simple 

 short few flowered rather thick spikes in the axils of the leaves of the 

 preceding year ; all bracteate and bracteolate. (North Brazil.^) 



138 ? Freireodendron M. Arg.^ — " Flowers diœcious apetalous; 

 calyx 5-fid, imbricated. Stamens 10, the exterior opposite calyx lobes 

 inserted under margin of central disk ; the interior filaments as if per- 

 forating ex tr or sely projecting disk ; anthers basifixed introrsely rimose. 

 Germen 1-locular, 2-ovulate ; stigma sessile wide siibpeltate. Fruit 

 drupaceous, by abortion 1-spermous ; seed exarillate ; cotyledons of 

 copiously albuminous embryo 3-angular-ovate penninerved, cordate 

 plane at base, longer than radicle, — A medium sized tree ; leaves 

 alternate slightly petiolate penninerved serrate-dentate ; stipules 

 deciduous ; flowers axillary glomerate ; female in glomerules as if 

 radians." (Brazil^) 



139. Drypetes Vahl.^ — Flowers diœcious apetalous; calyx 4-6- 

 partite imbricated. Stamens equal in number to petals (4-6) or twice 

 more, oftener oo ; filaments evolute, inserted round rudiment of ger- 

 men ^ or wider disciform ''' (Hemici/clia,^ Cydostemon '■') or free ; anthers 

 2-locular ; base of long adnate and introrse or laterally rimose cells 

 always inferior. Germen surrounded by hypogynous usually cupular 

 disk; cells 1 {Hemici/clia)^ or 1, 2 {Ci/dostcmon, Stcnogijnium^^), or 3, 

 4 (Dodecastcmon^^), 2 ovulate ; style branches short thick [Eudrypetes) 



' Nearly of Siitaceœ, Zanthoxylon. ' DnjpeUs Auctt. 



' Spec. \. P. trifoUolata H. Bn. loc. cit. ' " Discus mtrastaminalis " (M. Arc). 



3 Prodr. 244 (whence the characters have ^ 'W\owTai Kuif.m. Ediiib.ii. Pliil.Jouyn.-xlx. 



been selected by authors from representations). 297. — Endl. Gen. n. 5816. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 



* Spec. 1. F. MsMiflorwn M. ARa.—Dri/petes 562, t. 27, fig. 7, 8.— M. Alio. Prodr. 485. 



sessiliflora Allem. in Bol. Zeit. (1854), 459. ' Bl. Bijdr. 697.— Endl. Geii. n. 5837.— H. 



A genus badly known. Bn. Euphorb. 661, t. 23, fig. 22-26.— M. Akq. 



' Eihg. Amcr. ui. (1796), 49. — PoiT. in Mém. in Liniiaa, xxxii. 81 ; Prodr. 482. — Sphragidia 



Mus. i. 152, t. 6-8. — A. Juss. Euphorb. 12.— Thw. in Sook. Journ. (1855), 269, t. lO.—Pi/eiio- 



Endl. Gen. n. 6874. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 606, t. saiidra Bl. Mus. Lugd.-JSat. ii. 191. (fl. masc). 



24, fig. 34-40 ; in Adansonia, xi. 98. — M. Arq. '" M. Ako. in Linnaa, xxxii. 81. 



Prodr. 463 (incl. : Anaun MiQ. AstijUs Wight, " Ha.ssk. in Bol. Zeit. (1856), 803 ; in Bull. 



Cydostemon Bl. Dodecastemoii Hassk. Eemicy- Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 716. — Pycaosaiidra Bl. (fl, 



clia Wight et Arn. Ziparene Poit. Pcripkxis fœm.). 

 Wall. Pycnosandra Bl. Sphragidia Thw.) 



