190 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



in number, opposite sepals alternating -with stamens round thick 

 rudiment of gynseceum and shortly inserted. Stamens free ; filaments 

 refracted-incurved ; anthers in bud when younger, extrorse ; cells 

 adnate to margin of rather wide connective, scarcely erect, introrse, 

 and finally versatile. Sepals in female flowers 5, longer, deciduous. 

 German 3-looular, surrounded at base by shortly urceolate disk, 

 sometimes furnished with 1-5 staminodes. Style at apex thickly 3- 

 lobed ; lobes short 2 -fid, ovules in cell solitary obturate. Capsule 

 globose 3-coccate. — Trees ; juice milky ; leaves alternate, petiolate 

 2 -stipulate entire, penninerved ; flowers in axUlary and terminal 

 racemose cymiferous clusters, the female in central cymule short 

 and thick pedicellate.^ {North Brazil.^) 



24. Cunuria H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous; sepals 5 in 

 female flower rather thicker, imbricate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate 

 round rudiment of gyneeceum ; filaments connate at base ; the ex- 

 terior shorter ; anther introrse, 2-rimose. Eemale floral disk evo- 

 lute, the margin divided into 6 acuminate teeth (staminodes ?). Ger- 

 men 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle extrorse superior thickly 

 obturated; styles 3 -partite branches thick widely 2-lobed recurved. 

 Fruit capsular, 3-coccate ; seeds exarillate. — A tree (or shrub ?) ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate ; limb entire coriaceous penninerved, 2 -glandular 

 at base ; male flowers pymose, the female congested in glomerules at 

 the apex of the branches involucrate with bracts. (North Brasil}) 



25. Mischodon Thw.^ — Flowers dioecious; receptacle convex. 

 Sepals 6, 2-seriate imbricate. Stamens 6, opposite sepals ; filaments 

 free, inserted outside below rudimentary capitate 3-agonal germen ; 

 anther extrorse or sublaterally 2-rimose. Germen free, 3-locular ; 

 cells 1-ovulate, styles 3-partite lobes dilated at apex sub-2-lobed. 

 Capsule 3-coccate ; seed smooth exarillate. — A ramified tree ; younger 

 branches sub-4-agonal puberulate ; leaves opposite or 3-4-nate 

 simple penninerved petiolate ; male fiowers in slender ramified ter- 

 minal racemes and axillary to the upper leaf ; the female in thicker 

 terminal slightly ramified racemes. {Zeylania.^) 



1 A genus not differing from Elateriospermwn. Bn. loo. cit. — GlusiophyUum Spruceanwn M. Aeg. 



2 Spec. 2, 3. H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 286. loc. cit. 



3 In Adansonia, iv. 287. — M. Ako. Prodr. ^ In Sook. Journ. (1854), 299, t. 10 B; Emm. 

 1123. — Oluaiophyllim M. Ako. in Flora (1864), PI. Zeyl. 275. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 335.— M. Aeg. 

 518. Prodr. 1125. 



* C. Spruceana H. Bn. loc. eit. — Micrandra ' Spec. 1. M. Zeylanieum Th^'. loc. cit. 



Ctmuri H. Bn. loc. cit. — Pogonophora Ctmuri H. 



