184 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



12. Sarcoclinium Wight i. — Flowers (nearly of Jatropha) 

 dioecious ; male sepals 5 or more rarely 3, 4, valvate. Petals same 

 m number alternate, shorter than calyx, or sometimes twice as 

 numerous as sepals, imbricated. Stamens central, 2-verticillate, 

 twice as numerous as sepals, or more rarely 12-15 ; the more 

 interior alternipetalous ; filaments surrounded at base with 5 alter- 

 nipetalous glands, subfree or offcener connate, Germen 3-locular; 

 cells 1-ovulate;^ style erect, afterwards 2-fid; branches 2-4 -fid, 

 stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule 3-coccous; seeds albuminous 

 exarillate. — Shrubs ; branches thick ; leaves ^ alternate petiolate 

 2-stipulate, penninerved, entire or serrate coriaceous ; flowers axillary 

 or supra-axillary spicate racemose, 2-6-stichous ; bracts alternate 

 imbricated, sometimes scarious, 1-3-flowered; pedicels cymose 

 articulate. {South Asia and trop. West Africa.*) 



13, Galeria Zoll. and Mor.^ — Flowers dioecious ; sepals 5, fi:ee 

 or connate at base, valvate.® Petals 5, alternate, concave or subgaleate- 

 cucullate, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate ; exterior alter- 

 nipetalous ; filaments inserted below rudiment of gynseceum, connate 

 at base ; anthers introrse ; the oppositipetalous nestled in the cavity 

 of the petals ; cells free, introrsely rimose, finally emarginate. 

 Germen 2, 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style afterwards divided into 2, 

 3 lobes 2-partite stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit coriaceous, irregularly 

 compressed, non-valved, l-spermous by abortion; seed albuminous ; 

 cotyledons of transverse embryo flat, wider than radicle. — Small 

 trees J '^ leaves alternate, 2-stipulate entire penninerved veined ; 

 flowers in long pendulous terminal racemes. Male racemes fasciculate 

 cymiferous; female simple.® [Java, Malaisia.^) 



^ Icon. t. 1887, 1888.— H. Bn. Euphorbiac. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. i,\ii. 26^.— £ennettiaH.'B-&.ia 



309, t. 11, fig. 17, 18 ; in Adansonia, xi. 93.— Sorsf. Pl.Jav. £ar. (1852), 249, 50 (nee Mia.).— 



M. Arc. Prodi: 726. — Agroslistachys Dia.z. \a H. Bn. Buphorb. 311. — Schnizl. Iconog. t. 



Sook. Journ. (1850), 41.— H. Bn. Euphorbiac. 172 * *.— M. Aro. Prodi: 10S6.—Cremostachjs 



310.— M. Aeg. op. cil. 725. Tdl. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ber. 3, xv. 259. 



2 Ovnles usually deseendent; micropyle ex- « Not contiguous in young bud," ex direotione 

 trorse superior or sometimes (in S. Hookeri) ipilorum marginum et ex forma imbrioatis." 

 ascendent ; micropyle introrse inferior. (M. Arg.) 



3 Usually large. 7 Indumentum simple. 



' Spec. 5. Tii^'. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 279.— M. ' A genus formerly connected with .Ifii.Wems. 



Arg. in Flora (1864), 534; in Zi;fH««, xxxir. 9 Spec, about 12. Bl. Sijdr. 1124 (Anti- 



144 [Agrostistachys). desma). —Hiq,. Fl.. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 471.— M. 



^ Syst. Verzn. (1846), 19 (nee Heist, nee Arg. in XiHwraff, xxxiv. 204 (.Bwocdif/a). 

 Peest.). — Enbl. Q-en. Suppl. v, 94. — Pl. in- 



