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14. Johannesia Ybllos.^ — Flowers monceoious ; calyx gamo- 

 phyllous, shortly 3-5-dentate at apex, valvate. Petals 3-5, imbri- 

 cated or contorted. Glands alternipetalous 3-6. Stamens 8-10, 

 2-seriate, of which 5 are shorted exterior oppositipetalous ; others 

 longer 3-5, alternipetalous ; filaments all connate at base in central 

 column ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose, finally versatile extrorse. Sta- 

 minodes in female flower 3-5, shortly tongue-shaped, or sometimes 0. 

 Germen 2- or more rarely 3-locular ; ovules solitary in cells ; micro- 

 pyle extrorse superior obturated ; style 2, 3-partite ; branches twice 

 2-ohotomous, 2-lobed, stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit capsular, fleshy ; 

 cocci 2 J 3 with difficulty separating; cocci outwardly at apex porous ; 

 seeds albuminous. — A large rather milky tree ; indumentum simple ; 

 leaves alternate digitate-compound, 3-7-foliolate ; petiole at apex 

 2-glandular ; secondary petiole naked ; folioles penninerved ; stipules 

 linear-lanceolate; flowers in compound axUlary corymbiform cymes ; 

 female in each cymule central; bracts often 2 -glandular at base. 

 {Brazil"^) 



15. Aleurites Foest.^ — Flowers monoecious ; calyx valvate, un- 

 equally broken. Petals 5, contorted or imbricated. Male glands 5, 

 sub-free or connate iu urceolum, alternating with petals. Stamens oo, 

 inserted on conical receptacle, 2-oo -verticillate ; filaments sub-free or 

 synadelphous towards base ; anthers introrse or more rarely extrorse,* 

 2-rimose. Perianth of female flowers as in male, but longer. Glands 

 hypogynous 5, alternipetalous. Staminodes 0, or more rarely few.^ 

 Germen free, 2-5-locular ; ^ style branches same in number, stigma- 



1 Alograf. (1798), 199. — M. Akg. Frodr. 715. in Ann. Mus. viii. 69, t. 32. — Vernicia Lour. Fl. 

 — Joannesia GoM. Obs. Med. Sot. 2, t. 1 (part. Coehinch. (ed. 1790), 686. — Telopea Soland. (ex 

 nee Pbks.). — Anda A. Juss. JSuphorb. 39, t. 12, Gjertn. Fruet. ii. 195). — Garda Noronh. (ex 

 fig. 37. — Mab.t. Amwn. Monac. t. 1. — Endl. (?e«. Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bog. 236). — Ambinux Com- 

 n. 6801. — H. Bn. Buphorh. 316, t. 12, fig. 38- mers. (ex J. Qen. 389). — Fl<sococca Commers. 

 34. — AndiscmYMVLOs. Fl. Flum. ii. t. 86. (ex A. Jusb. Fuphorb. 38, t. 11). — Endl. Oen. 



2 Spec. 1. /. princeps Vellos. loe. cit. — Anda n. 5804. — H. Bn. Fuph^rb. 318, t. 12, fig. 33-36. 

 Q-omesii A. Juss. loc. cit. — A. S. H. PI. XFs. Bras. — Elieococcits Speeng. Syst, iii. 884. — Camirtum 

 t. 54, 55. — A. Brasilienais Badd. Mem. Quar. Rumph. Serb. Amboin. ii. 180, t. 5. — G.;ertn. 

 Plant. Bras. 25. — Andisona pentaphylVut Vel- Pruot. ii. 194, t. 125. 



LOS. Fl. Flvm. ii. t. 86.—Aleurites pentaphylla * In A. Trisperma (Blano. Fl. d. Filip. ed. 1. 



Wall. Gat. n. 7959 (ex H. Bn. Fuphorb. 317 ; 755.— M. Arg. Prodr. 724, sect. 3 {Seutiales).— 



in Adanaonia, iv. 284). A. Saponaria Blanc, op. cit. ed. ii. 619). 



3 Cliar. Gen. (1776), n. 66.— J. Gen. 389. — ' Sometimes but rarely fertile ; hence a few 

 Lamk. Diet. i. 80 ; Suppl. i. 289. — A. Juss. Eu- flowers are hermaphrodite. 



phorh. 38, t. 12, fig. 36.— Endl. Gen. n. 5802.— ^ Stellate indumentum entangled soluhile 



— H. Bn. Euphorb. 345, t. 11, flg. 19, 20, t. 12, from seed, and often (ex M. Arg.) taken for 



fig. 1-15. — M. Arg. Prodr. 722. — Dryandra sacciform disk. 



Thunb. Fl. Jap. 267, t. 27 (nee E. Br.).— Oorr. 

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