EUPHORBIAOEJE. 179 



4. Homonoya Loue.^ — Flowers (nearly of Ricinus) monoecious 

 or dioecious; male calyx 3-partite, valvate. Stamens co, polya- 

 delphous (of Ricinus) ; more interior filaments antherless ; cells of 

 subglobose anthers confluent, shortly rimose. Calyx of female 

 flowers 5 partite, imbricated, Germen 2-4, oftener 3-locular ; ^ 

 style branches same in number, simple, densely papillose. Germen 

 and ovule, as in Ricinus. Capsule small ; seeds smooth membra- 

 nous-arillate. — Virgate-ramose • shrubs ; leaves alternate sessile 

 or petiolate, 2 -stipulate penninerved entire or dentate coriaceous ; 

 inflorescence spicate or racemose axillary, sometimes 2-sexual, 

 floriferous at base, not ramified ; bracts usually 1-flowered. (South 

 West. Trop. Asia, cont. and ins.^) 



5. Goelodiscus, H. Bn.* — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 

 4-5-partite, valvate. Stamens co, round central concave glandular 

 disk ; filaments more or less high polyadelphous ; anthers introrse, 

 2-rimose. Female calyx 3-5-fld, hence deeply open. Germen 

 3-5-oCTdar ; cells 1 -ovulate ; styles 3-5, simple, stigmatiferous 

 within. Fruit ...? Trees (?) or shrubs; * leaves alternate or opposite, 

 palmate-3-nerved petiolate exstipulate (?); flowers in axillary 

 racemes, 1, 2-sexual, glomerulate or cymulose. [Eastern India.^) 



III. JATEOPHE^. 



6. Jatropha L. — Flowers monoecious or more rarely dioecious, 

 generally 5-merous ; calyx imbricated. Petals imbricated, free or 

 connate in gamopetalous corolla, discrete, imbricated or contorted 

 more rarely 0. Glands of disk alternipetalous, free or connate in 

 orbicular disk. Stamens generally 10, 2-verticillate, or more 

 rarely 11-30, 3-6-vertioillate; filaments more less high connate 

 in central column, more rarely inserted round minute rudiment of 

 gynseceum; exterior 5, oppositipetalous ; anthers 2-locular introrse 



1 Fl. CocUnch. (ed. 1790), 636. — Endl. Qen. Uoi-is. Nov. PI. Sp. 375 {Adelia}.— Wight:, leoii. 



n. 3885.— M. Aug. in Linnom, xxxiv. 200 ; t. 1868, 1869 {AdeUaj.—Kkss-K.. Sort. Beg. 237, 



Prodr. 1022.— Spathiostemon Bl. Sijdr. 621. — 264 (Ricinus).— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 452 

 Endl. Qen. n. 6810.— H. Bn. Fuphorb. 292.- 



Iwinamja Blasco, Fl. Filip. 82l.Swmato- ^ Fuphori. 293.— M. Arg. Prodi: 758. 



spermum Wall. Cat. n. 7963. — Lindl. Nat. '" Habit of Echinus. 



St/St. 116. " Spec. 3. Wail. Cat. n. 7723 {Groton), 7728 



2 Anterior cells, 2. (iJ/cwMs).- M. Aug. in Linniea, xxxiv. 154. 



' Spec, about 3. G-Eis. Crot. Mon. 6 [Croton). — 



