EUPHORBIACE/E. 249 



or suh-poiisiie à\\vii&à {Stenogijnmn), sometimes reniform-discoid {Hemi- 

 cyclia)^ or more rarely filiform [Dodecastemon). Fruit globose, ovoid or 

 rarely (Jst//lis^) angular, semifleshy, finally coriaceous or subcrusta- 

 ceous, indéhiscent ; endocarp of cells L-5-osseous, coriaceous, or more 

 rarely {Asfijlis) subchartaceous." {All trop, regions?) 



140. Putranjiva Wall.* — Flores diœcious apetalous ; male calyx 

 2-5-partite ; leaves sligbtly or sometimes closely imbricated (Palrnga^) 

 or contorted. Stamens 2,3, alternating with, petals, equal in number 

 to them ; filaments central, free or 1-2-adelphous ; anthers thick 

 subglobose or ellipsoidal, extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 3-6-par- 

 tite ; germen 2-3-locular ; ovules in cell 2-nate descendent ; micro- 

 pyle extrorse rather thick obturated ; style afterwards divided into 

 2, 3, branches stigmatiferous at apex subreniform [Palenga) or wide 

 obversely 3-angidar-dilatcd. Fruit indéhiscent subdrupaceous, finally 

 dry, by abortion 1-loeular ; endocarp bony; embryo of solitary seed 

 copiously albuminous ; cotyledons subplane digitinerved at base. — 

 Trees ; ^ leaves alternate petiolate stipulate penninerved reticulate- 

 venose ; flowers ^ male axillary cymose or glomerate ; female longer 

 pedicellate solitary or few cymose. {East liidia.^) 



141. Longetia H. Bn.^ — Flowers monœcious ; sepals 6, 2-seriate 

 imbricated ; exterior shorter and thicker, sometimes dorsally subcar- 

 niate. Stamens oo , or subdefinite (2-6) ; filaments inserted on rather 

 convex ^° receptacle, central often flexuose or folded, and genuflexo- 

 produced beyond anther ; anthers extrorse ; cells finally discrete 

 above, rimose. Calyx of female flower nearly as in male ; exterior 



' WiOHT, Icon. t. 1992. — Anaua Miq. Fl. Icomgr. t. 19. — Tul. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, 



Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 410. xv. 2.52.— H. Bn. in Bull. Soc. Sot. de Fr. iv. 



- Sect. 6 : 1. Dodecastemon (Hassk.) ; 2. Ci/- 991 ; Etiphorb. 6-11. — Schnizl. lennogr. fasc. 6. 



clostemon Bl.) ; 3. Stenogynium {M.. Aeg.) ; 4. — M. Arc. Prarfj-. 443. — Pongolam VLkbbt). Surl. 



Eudrypetes (H. Bn.) ; 5. Astylis (Wight) ; G. Malah. vii. t. .59. — Nageia RoxB. Fl. Lid. iii. 



Hemicgclia (Wight et Arn.). 766 (nee G^ertw.). 



' Spec, about 34. Sw. Fl. Lid. Occ. i. 329 s Thw. in ffwk. Journ. (1856), 270, t. 7, fig. 



(Sc/iœ/er/n).— Kick. Cuba, 218.— Thw. Fnum. c— H. Bn. Fiqilwrb. 649. 



PI. Zcyl. 286 {Cyclostemon), 287 {Semicyclia).— « Wood hard. 



Griseb. in Nnchr.d. Keen. Oes, Un. Oœtt. (1865), ' Greenish or rather purple. 



165 ; Veg. d. Earaib. 24 ; Fl. Brit. TF.-Lid. 32. s gpgc. 3 v. 4. Wight, Icon. t. 1876.— Royle, 



—Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. p. ii. 360.— M. Arg. in III. Eimal. 347, t. 83 6('*.— Thw. Enum. PI. 



Flora (1864), 517, 531 [Cyclostemon) ; in Linncea, Zeyl. 287. 



xxxii. 81.— Benth. J'/.^îMCTOi. vi. \\1 (Semicy- ' In Ada n soma, ii. 228; vi. 352, t. 9; xi. 100. 



clia). — H.Bn. in Adanson'wi,y\. 330 [Bemicyclia). — M. Arg. Prodr. 244. 



■* Tent. Fl. Wepal. 61. — Endl. Ocn. n. 1894; '" Sometimes pilose at apex. 



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