EUPHOBBIAOEM. 191 



26. "Codissum Eumph.^ — Flowers monoecious, 6- or more rarely 

 4-6-mero-as ; sepals and petals sometimes small in female flower 

 (Blachia^), minute or 0, imbricate. Glands same in number, alterni- 

 petalous or connate in annular lobed disk. Stamens oo, inserted in 

 tbe centre of conical receptacle ; filaments free or more or less 1-adel- 

 pbous; antbers iatrorse, lateral, or most usually extrorse; cells 

 adnate to tbe connective in tbeir wbole length {Phyllaurea ^), some- 

 times at tbe apex, or more or less bigb to tbe middle or more rarely 

 to tbe base free (5afo^to,* /S'^e«^m«,^). Germen 3, 4-locular; style 

 brancbes same in number simple {Tylowpalum^ Synaspisma,'' Os- 

 todes,^ Phyllaurea) or 2-fid or partite {Baloghia)^ more rarely pluri- 

 partite {Steigeria) ; ovule solitary in cell ; obturator usually ratber 

 tbick. Fruit capsular; exoearp more or less flesby or coriaceous 

 tbick, sometimes ligneous-capsular ( Ostodes) ; cotyledons of albu- 

 minous embryo -foliaceous; exostome ricbly or. sparsely {Ostodes) aril- 

 late. — Trees or sbrubs ; leaves alternate or opposite entire penni- 

 nerved; flowers in racemes 1, 2-sexual, terminal or axillary some- 

 times iimbelliform. ( Warm Asia and Oceania.^) 



27. Ricinocarpus Desf.^" — Flowers monoecious (of Codiceum, 

 sect. Baloghia) ; sepals imbricated or twisted, sometimes but rarely 

 {Apetalidion^^). Glands alternate 5, free or adbering to interior of 

 sepals (Jnomodtscus^^). Stamens go, 5-nate, inserted on central 

 columella ; antbers extrorsely rimose, more or less emarginate on 

 botb sides. Female calyx 5, 6-merous, Glands of bypogynous 



1 Beri. Amioin. iv. 65, t. 25-27.— A. JuSB. « Bl. £ijdr. 619.— Endl. Gm. n. 5803.— H. 

 Ikphorb. 33, t. 9, fig. 30. — Endl. G-m. u. 5818. Bn. Euphorb. 391 ; in Adansonia, xi. 78. — M. 

 — H. Bn. Suphorb. 384, t. 16, fig. 26-35; in Aug. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 214; Frodr. 1114.— 

 Adansonia, xi. 73-80. — M. Aro. Prodr. 1116. — Desmoatemon Thw. Enam. PI. Zeyl. 278. 



? Fahrenheitia Ebiohb. f. et Zoll. in lAnnma, ' Spec, about 20. Poest. Prodr. 67 {Orotori). — 



xxviii. 599. — M. Arg. Prodr. 1256 (incl. :-Ba- Spreng. jSysi. iii. 906 {Trewia). — Labill. jS«?-<. 



loghia Endl. Blaohia H. Bn. Desmostemon Thw. Caled. 77, t. 76 {Orozophora). — W. Spee. iv. 545 



Junghunia Mia. Ostodes Bl. Phyllaurea Locr. {Orotori). — Wight. Icon. t. 1874 [proton). — 



Synaspisma Endl. Steigeria M. Arg. Tylosepa-^ Eoxe. Fl. Ind. iii. 680 [Groton). — Mia. Fl. Ind.- 



lum KuRz). liat. i. p. ii. 384 (Ostodes). — H. Bn. iaAdansonia, 



2 H. Bn. Muphorb. 385, t. 19, fig. 18-20. i. 345 (Baloghia), 251, 348 ; ii. 214 [Baloghia], 



3 Lour. M. Coehinch, (ed. 1790), 515.— Eu- 218 [Synaspisma) ; vi. 296 [Baloghia), 303. 

 coditetm M. Aro. Prodr. 1119 (sect. i).—Jung- ^" In M4m. Mus. iii. 459, t. 22.— A. Jdbs. 

 hmia Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii, 412. Euphorb. 36.— Endl. Qen. n. 6812 ; leonogr. t. 



■* Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 84 ; Gen. u. 6811 ; 125 {Ricinocarpus).— R. Bn. Mtiphorb. 343, t. 12, 



Icoii. t. 122, 123.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 344. fig. 39-44.— M. Arg. Prodr. 20i.—Boeperia 



* M. Arg. in Linncea, xxxiv. 215 ; Prodr. Spreng. Syst. iii. 13 (neo A. Juss.). — Echino- 



1121. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, xi. 74. sphcera Sieb. MSS. (ex Sond. in Linncea, xxviii. 



' KuRZ. in Teysm. et Binn. PI. Nov. vel Min. 562). 



Cogn. Sort. Bog. 36. " M. Arg. in Linneea, xxxiv. 59. (A legiti- 



' Endl. Gen. n. 5775. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 387. mate species of this genus P) 



— M. Arg. Prodr. 1120, sect. 5. '^ M. Arg. loc. cit. 59. 



