EUPHORBIACÉES. 295 
1-2-rimoso rumpente, 1-2-valvi, basi bracteolis 4  v. paucis inæqua- 
bus cincto ; floribus masculis rüdimentis fæmineorum paucis (forma 
variis) in rer cinctis ?. (America calid.?) 
IV. CROTONEZÆ. 
94. Croton L.— Flores monœci v. rarius diœci, 4-6-, sæpius 5-meri ; 
sepalis masculis valvatis v. plus minus imbricatis. Petala imbricata 
v. Sæpius demum subvalvata, nunc haud inter se contigua. Glandulæ 
disei liberæ alternipetalæ. Stamina aut subdefinita definitave, nunc 10, 
2-serlata, v. 5-8, aut sæpius 15-œ , œ-seriata; filamentis liberis rece- 
ptaculo convexo sæpe villoso insertis, in alabastro infracto-incurvis ; 
antheris introrsis (in alabastro propter filamenti incurvationem extror- 
sum spectantibus), demum oscillando-erectis. Germen rudimentarium 
plerumque 6. Calyx fœmineus 5-6-fidus v. partitus ; laciniis æqualibus 
v. rarius inæqualibus, valvatis v. imbricatis. Petala evoluta v. rudimen- 
laria, nunc 0. Disci hypogyni glandulæ liberæ v. connatæ, sæpe crassæ. 
Germen 3-v. rarius 2- v. 4-loculare; ovulo in loculis 1, descendente : 
micropyle extrorsum supera, obturatore tecta ; stylo e basi v. plus minus 
alte 3-lobo v. partito; ramis simplicibus, 2- v. 3- œ-fidis, apice 
incurvo v, involuto stigmatosis. Capsula sæpius 3-cocca, nunc ægre 
V. tarde dehiscens; coccis 2-valvibus; seminibus ad micropylem aril- 
latis; embryonis albuminosi cotyledonibus foliaceis radicula multo latio- 
ribus. — Arbores, frutices, suffrutices v. rarius herbæ ; indumento sæpius 
Stellari v. lepidoto: foliis alternis v. subverticillatis, integris v. varie 
incisis lobatisve, penninerviis v. basi digitinerviis; stipulis lateralibus, 
integris v. plus minus divisis, nune glanduliformibus ; inflorescentiis 
terminalibus ; floribus in spicas v. racemos simplices v. plus minus 
'amosos dispositis; fæmineis in inflorescentiis 2-sexualibus inferioribus 
lv. paucis, nune « ; cæteris masculis superioribus, in axillis bractea- 
rum solitariis, paucis v. © , cymosis v. glomeratis. (Or4. tof. reg. calid.) 
Fa To \ 
l. Involucri rimæ sæpe he Münch., NW, 242 (Spirta), — ? H,B. K., Nov: 
2. Gen. ob infloresc. ingen. alabastr. figur. gen. et spec., sg 191 (yristica) — mo 
Conspic.,fam. v. sect. Fe Cher clim Herb. Fi. bra ; 270 (Spriria). — BENTH., in 
Conslit. (KL.). Sect. nune 5 : 1. Eupera (Be. Bx) ; : ts (1854), 392 (Per sp — GRI 
2. Nepera (GRISEs.) ; 3. Spicia (LEANDR. ); 4. Pe- achr. d, is. œtt. (1865), 180 : 
ridium (ScHorT) , 5. Schismatopera (KL ). F. Brit. We, .— %. BN, in Adanso- 
+ Spec. 16, 17. Scuranxk, in Observ, Acad.  nia, V, 222. 
