196 STATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



36. Echinus Loue.^ — Flowers monoecious or more rarely dioecious 

 (nearly of Sumbavia) apetalous; male calyx 2-5-partite, valvate. 

 Stamens co, inserted on central elevated subdilated eglandular re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments free or connate at base ; anthers introrse or more 

 rarely extrorse; cells rimose adnate or free below (Podadenia^), 

 sometimes inserted below dilated connective, discrete. Female calyx 

 3-G -partite, valvate or . more rarely more or less imbricated. Ger- 

 men free, 3-locular or rarely 2-5-locular, surrounded by hypogynous 

 disk of varied form {Melanolepis^ Blumeodendron,'^)., or oftener ; cells 

 1-ovulate; style branches simple, sometimes more or less dilated, 

 largely and thickly papillose within. Stamiaodes hypogynous oo,^ 

 or much oftener 0. Fruit capsular, 2-5-cocoous, more rarely with 

 difficulty or scarcely dehiscing (Coccoceras^) and subfleshy (Poda- 

 denia\ unarmed or sometimes echinate {RoUleropsis,'' Melanolepis) 

 or aculeate {Axenfeldia ^), more rarely dorsally carinate or more or 

 less sometimes long horned ( Cordemoya^ Coccoceras) ; seeds exarillate 

 or more rarely at micropyle slightly carunculate ( Coccoceras). — Trees 

 and shrubs; leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, 2 -stipulate, 

 penninerved or digitinerved, sometimes peltate, entire dentate or 

 lobed, oftener below spriniled with dusky or yellow glands ; iadu- 

 mentum simple, stellate or 2-morphous. Flowers terminal, axillary or 

 lateral, racemose or spicate ; spikes or racemes subsimple or oftener 

 ramified, beariag glomerules or cymes ; calyx generally ecalyculate or 

 sometimes {Diplochlamys^^) m female flower bracts 5, m. iavolucrum 

 representing external calyx.^^ {Asia, Warm Asia, Oceania and Africa}^) 



> Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 633.— Endl. Gen. Prodr. 949.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, xi. 89. 



n. 5887. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, xi. 130, not. — ? M. Ahg> Prodr. 957 (sect. 2). 



Mallotus. Lour. op. cit. 636. — M. Akg. in Lin- ^ H. Bn. Euphorb. 419. — Sancea Seem. Voi/. 



niea, xxxiv. 184 ; Prodr. 956. — RottUra Koxe. Herald, Bot. 409, t. 96. 



PI. Coromand. i. 36, t. 168. — A. Juss. Huphori. ' H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 255. — M. Aeg. 



32, t. 9.— H. Bn. Euphorh. i21.—Adisca Bl. Prodr. 960 (sect. 4). — Boutonia Boj. SoH. Maur. 



Bijdr. 609. — Plagianthera Eeichb. p. Zauh. Oi). 282 (uec. DC). — Bout. Trav. Soc. Hist. Nat. 



Soort V. Eottlera. 19. — Behinocroton F. Mceli,. Maur. (1846), 51. 



Fragm. i. 31 (inel. : Axenfeldia H. Bn. Boutonia '° M. Abg. in Flora (1864), 639 ; Prodr. 1023. 



Boj. Coccocerai Miq. Cordemoya H. Bn. Piplo- " Seot.igit. 9: 1. Emchinus {RottUra 'B.otlb.). 



thlamys M. Arg. Hancea Seem. Melanolepis — 2. Rottleropsis (M. Arg.). — 3. Blumeodendron 



Reich, f. et Zoi,l. Podadenia Thw. (M. Arg.)— 4. Axenfeldia (H. Bn.)— 6. Cordemoya 



2 Thw. Enrnn. PI. Zeyl. 273.— M. Aeq. Prodr. (H. Bn.).— 6. Melanolepis (Reichb. p. et ZoLl.) 

 791. 7. Podadenia (Thw.). — 8. Coccoeeras (Mjq.)— 9. 



3 Reichb. f. et Zoll. in Zinncea, xxviii. 324. Piphchlamys (M. Arg.). 



— H. Bn. Euphorb. 398.— M. Aeg. Prodr. 957. "^ Spec, ad 76. L. Spec. 1005 {Croton).— 



4 M. Arg. Prodr. 956 (sect. l).—Elateriosper- Thunb. Fl. Jap. 270, t. 28, 29 (Cro«o») .—Lour, 

 mum (part.) Bi. Bijdr. 621. Pl. Coehineh. (ed. 1790), 586 (ieicmMs).- Vahl, 



s Sometimes antheriferous (H. Bn. Euphorb. Syinh. ii. 97 {firoton). — Geis. Orot. Monogr. 13 



t. 19, fig. 31; in Adansonia, vi. 370). (Croton), 81 (Aletirites).—W. Spec. br. 667 {Ri- 



« lIiQ. Fl, hid.-Bat. Suppl. 465,— M. Asa. «"«««).— Spbeng. Syst. iii. 878 



