178 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



2. Pedilanthus Neck.^ — Flowers nearly of Euphorhia ; perianth 

 irregular, usually oblique, calciform {Eupedilantlius)^ accrescent at 

 back, with lobe-shaped appendage entire or 2-fid, more rarely 

 {Cuhanthus)j^ subequal-urceolate and accrescent at back, in shield- 

 shaped appendage, sometimes 2-lobed at back ( Calceolastrum).* 

 Glands at the bottom of the appendage 2-6, or more rarely 0. 

 Generative organs and other characters as in Euphorhia ; stipes of 

 germen extrorsely declinate. Fruit capsular, seeds exarillate. — 

 Fleshy shrubs ; leaves alternate ; stipules small, glanduliform, 

 or 0; inflorescence^ and other characters of EuphorUa. — {Trop. 

 America).^ 



II. RicmE^. 



3. Bicinus T. — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; calyx 5-partite, 

 finally valvate. Stamens in male flower on, inserted on rather convex 

 receptacle ; filaments oo, ramified, many times divided above ; 

 anthers small 2-dymo-globose ; cells laterally or extrorsely rimose, 

 longitudinally adnate to thin connective. Germen (in male flower 0), 

 3-locular subsessile; style branches 3, afterwards beyond middle 

 2 -partite, within and on all sides much papillose stigmatiferous (red). 

 Ovules in cells solitary descendent ; micropyle extrorse superior ; 

 obturator thick subhemispherical. Capsule 3-locular ; exocarp finally 

 solute, externally smooth or echinate ; cocci solute from axis. 

 Seeds smooth (more or less spotted) ; aril of exostome depressed, 

 conical, obscurely 2-lobed ; cotyledons of large embryo folia ceous, 

 subelliptical, equal in breadth to albumen — Arborescent or tall 

 herbaceous plants ; leaves alternate stipulate ; petiole long at ventral 

 line, bearing glanduliform tubercles; limb wide, usually peltate, 

 palmatinerved, 7-15-lobed, unequally dentate; flowers in terminal, 

 contracto-ramified. cymiferous racemes ; female superior ; inferior 

 male, 1-bracteate and 2-bracteolate ; pedicels articulate. {All warm 

 regions.) See p. 109. 



1 Elem. ii. 354.— A. Juss. Euphorbiac. 59.— Boiss. loc. cit. 1261, sect. ii. 



Endl. Gen. n. 6765.— H. Bn. EuphorUac. i Flowers often red sometimes spotted with 



56,287, t. 3, flg. 1-15.— Boiss. Prodr. 4, 1261.— red and ^een, or violet. 



Tithymaloides T. Inst. eSi.—Crepidaria Haw. . » Spec, about 18. Spreng. St/st. iii. 802.— 



Si/ii. succ. 67. — IIexadenia'KL.etGRCKY,Tricoee. PoiT. in Ann. Mtis. xix. 388, t. 19. Benth. 



li.—i)iad(nariaKh.etGrRCKi,loc.cit. Siilph. iO, t. 23; in Soolc. /o«j«. vi.r321.— 



"■ Boiss. loc. cit. i, sect. i. Kl. et Groke, Tricocc. 106.— Griseb. in Mem. 



' Boiss. loe. eit. 7, sect. iii. Am. Ac. (1860), 161. H. Bn, in Adansonia, i. 340. 



