252 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



male in densely composite-ramified racemes ; female in a cushion 

 shortly petiolate. {South Africa}) 



145 ? Daphniphyllum Bl.- — Flowers diœcious apetalous; calyx 

 3-10-partite, imbricated ; male deciduous. Stamens oo (5-20) ; fila- 

 ments free central, radiate ascendent from base (subumbellate) ; 

 anthers usually compressed, sometimes 4-agonal ; cells longitudinally 

 adnate, sublaterally rimnse. Germ eu sometimes sui-rounded by 4-6- 

 glandular disk, 2-locular ; ovules 2-nate descendent ; micropyle ex- 

 trorse superior ; obturator rather thick ; style branches usually very 

 short ; disk-shaped-reniform, stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit more or 

 less fleshy or subbaccate ; endocarp sometimes ehartaceous or fibrous ; 

 seeds 1,2, exarillate ; cotyledons of much shorter albuminous embryo 

 narrow subplane or semicylindrical shorter than radicle. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate simple entire or dentate penni- 

 uerved reticulate-veined ; stipules small or inconspicuous ; flowers 

 axillary racemose ; male pedicels articulate, deciduous.^ [Asia and 

 N. warm Oceania, trop. W. Africa}) 



146. Phyllanthus L.'^ — Flowers monœcious apetalous ; sepals 

 usually 5, 6, more rarely 4 [Cicca^ Epistylium^ Eriococcus,^ Scepasma^)^ 

 or 7-9, free or more or less high connate, 2-3-seriate imbricate. 



1 Spec. 1. S. globosa Vahl et Lamb. loo. cit. Agyneia L. (not Vent.), Aniêonema A. Juss. 



— H. Bn. in Adansonia, iii. 163. — Croton Burm. Ardinghelia Commerb. Asterandra Kl. Brad- 



Afr. 122, t. 45. — Jatropha gloliosaOrJERTN. Fnut. lei/a G.tîrtn. Bnyiiia Fokst. (part.), Calaeoccus 



ii. 122, t. 109, fig. 3. — Toncodendron capense Kt'Rz, Chori.^aiidrii Wight, Cicca L. Diehalac- 



Thunb. loc. cit. tina Hance, Diaspcnis L. Embliea G.drtn. Epi- 



- Jiijdr. 11S3. — Endl. Gen. n. 5755. — H. Bn. stylium Sw. Eriocnccus Hassk. Gencsiphylla 



Euphnrb. 664, t. 21, fig. 25-27. — M. Arg. in LnÉR. Glochidimi Foust. . Gloehidionopsis Bl. 



BO. Prodi: xvi. sect. i. 1. — Omighia Wight, Glochismdra Wight, Oynoou A. Juss. Semi- 

 Icon, t. 1877, 1878. — Gyrandra Wall. Cat. n. • cicca. H. Bn. Margaritnria L. (part.), Meborea 



8020 (nee Geis.). Aubl. Menarda Commers. Nymphanthiis Lour. 



'^ A genus distinct fi'om Enphorhiacca> on OvbictUaria H. Bn. Peltaiidra Wight, Pleioste- 



account of short embryo and other characters, mon Sond. Prosorus Dalz. Eeidia Wight, Sho- 



with some constituting a separate order [Daph- pitim Scheeb. Scepasina Bl. Staurotliylax Gb,it¥, 



niphyllnceœ M. Arg.), formerly doubtfully re- SyiwHemoii F. Muell. Tricaryam Lour. Wil- 



iuced to a hamnacete (Bl.). liamia H. Bn. TFtirtsia H. Bn. XylophtjUa Ii. 



3 Spec. 12, 13. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 316.— M. ZyffospermumTKW. Bak-eu, Fl. Maimt. SOS). 



Arg. in linncca, sxxiv. 76 ; in Flora (1864), » L. Mantiss. i. 17.— J. Gen. 386.— Lamk. III. 



636.— KuRZ, in Teysm. PI. Nov. Hort. Bog. 37. t. 767.— A. Juss. Enphorb. 20, t. 4.— Jacq. 



— MiQ. in Ann. Mm. luyd.-Bnt. iii. 129. Eort. Schœnbr. t. 294.— Endl. Gch. n. 6851.— 



* Gen. n. 1050.— .T. Gen. 386.— Lamk. III. t. H. Bn. Euplmrb. 617, t. 24, fig. 28-33. 



766, 767.— PoiR. Diet. v. 295 ; Suppl. iv. 401. 1 Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1095, t. 22.— A. Juss. 



— Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 1101.— A. Juss. Euphorb. Enphorb. 17, t. 3, fig. 8.— Endl. Gen. n. 5868. 



21, t. 5, fig. 16.— Endl. Gen. n. 5847.— H. Bn. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 646. 



Euphorb. 621, t. 22, fig. 15-36 ; 23, fig. 1-21 ; ^ Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bog. 242. 



24, fig. 1-9, 16-33; 25, fig. 10-16, 22-24; 27, ' Bl. Bijdr. 582.— H. Bn. Enphorb. 648, t. 



fig. 5, 6, 9-17.— M. Arg. Prodr. 274 (inch : 25, fig. 10-15. 



