E UPHOBBIA CE^. 181 



usually few, inferior in raceme, or central in smaU cyme ; others 

 male, all sometimes largely bracteate. ( Warm America}) 



8 ? Tannodia H. Bir.^ — Flowers (nearly of Jatropha) monoecious ; 

 male calyx 5-partite, valvate. Petals 6, alternate, imbricated. 

 Stamens 10, 2-seriate verticillate ; filaments connate at base, and 

 surrounded by 5 alternipetalous glands, afterwards free; anthers 

 rimose, 2-locular ; the oppositipetalous shorter introrse ; the 

 alternipetalous extrorse. Female calyx 5-dentate, imbricated. 

 Petals 5, alternate. Disk hypogynous, membranous urceolate. 

 Germen 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle extrorse superior j 

 obturator rather thick ; style branches 3, short, reflexed, 2-fld. 

 Fruit (?) — A glabrous shrub ; leaves alternate petiolate, 2-8tipulate, 

 entire penninerved ; flowers in spike-shaped racemes ; bracts 2- 

 glandular cymose-3-flowered.^ {Malacassia}) 



9. Tournesolia Scop.^ — Flowers nearly of ' Jatropha^ often 

 monoecious, more rarely dioecious ; receptacle convex, or sometimes 

 slightly concave (an insertion whence perianth and disk are sub- 

 perigynous). Male calyx 5- or more rarely 3, 4-partite, valvate or 

 reduplicate. Petals same ia number alternate, finally valvate, more 

 or less evolute, sometimes very small or entire ( Crosophora, Ditaxis^ 

 Philyra^), or crenate-dentate {Speranskia), ' sub-3-lobed or 3-lobed 

 {Argythamnid)^^ sometimes palmate-3-7-fid {Chiropetalum),^^ rarely 

 unequal, imbricated or more rarely contorted, sometimes subvalvate, 

 not contiguous. Glands 5, alternipetalous, more or less distinct, 



' Spec, about 40. L. Spec. 1007 {Jatropha). — Chiropetalum A. Juss. Chlorocaulon Kl. Desfonte- 



PoHL. Fl. Bras. i. 27, t. 10-48. — M. Arg. in nea Vellos. Ditaxis Vahl, Lepidococea Turcz. 



lArmaa, xxxiv. 205. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. Zepidoeroton Presl, Philyra Kl. Fhyhra Endl. 



66, 145, 343 ; iii. 149 ; iv. 276. Sohima Dennst. SeropJiyton Benth. Speran- 



' In Adansmia, i. 251.— M. Arcs. Frod/r. 728. skia H. Bn. Stenonia Didr.). 

 — Tandmiia H. Bn. op. cit. i. 184, t. 7, fig. 1, 2 ^ As to symmetry, mucli smaller however, 



(nee Moa.) ' A. Juss. Euphorb. 27, t. 7, fig. 24. — Endl. 



^ A genus on account of the Eestivation of the Gen. n. 5833. — H. Bn. Buphorb. 298, t. 16, fig. 



calyxaUied to/a<fOi)Aa, andhenoetoyowrTOsoMa, 23-29. — Anacanthiwm (sect.) H. Bn. in Adan- 



approximate as it appears to SarcocUmmi and aoaia, iv. 270. 

 Pausmdra. ' Kl. in Erichs. Arch. (1841), 199.— H. Bn. 



^ Spec. 1. T. cordifolia H. Bn. Uc. cit. Euphorb. 297, t. 12, fig. 16-22.— P%fera Endl. 



s Introd. 243, n. 1097 (1777).— H. Bn. in Gen. Suppl. ii. 91. 

 Adcmsonia, xi. 89. — Crozophbra Neck. Elem. ii. ' H, Bn. Euphorb. 388. 



337, n. 1127 (1790).— A. Juss. Euphorbiac. 27, "P. Br. /am. 339.— Sw.Pcot??-. 39.— A. Juss. 



t. 7. — ^Nees, <?«».. ii. t. 37. — Payer, Orgcmog. . Euphorb. 26, t. 7. — Argyrothamnia M. Arg. in 



526, t. 110.— H. Bn. Euphorbiac 321, t. IS, Linnma, xxxiv. 144; Prodr. 732.— Euargyro- 



fig. 12-22.— Endl. Gen. n.. 5829.— M. Arg. thamnia M. Arg. loc. cit. 148. 

 Prodr. 746 (incl. -. Androphorus Karst. Aphora " A. Juss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. s&r. 1, xxv. 21. — 



NuTT. Argothmrmia Si'reng. ArgyrothamniaM.. Endl. Gen. n. 5830. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 356, t. 



Aro. Argythamnia Sw. Caperonia A. S. H. 15. — CMorocaulonKh.ia Endl. Gen. 8n-ppl.v.S9. 



