EUPHOBBIACE^. 197 



37 ? Gheilosa Bl.^— Flowers (nearly of Echinus) dioecious ; 

 calyx subvalvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens inserted round 

 rudimentary gyneeceum free ; anthers introrse ; cells adnate rimose. 

 Disk 10-glandular ; glands 2'plicate alternating in series. Germen 

 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style branches 3, shortly 2-M, stigmati- 

 ferous at apex. Fruit capsular ; exocarp thick ; seeds exarillate. 

 Other characters of Echinus.^ — A tree ; leaves alternifoliate penni- 

 nerved ; flowers in axillary cymiferous racemes. (Java?) 



38. Epiprinus Gefff.* — Flowers monoecious. Male calyx naked, 

 4-partite, valvate. Stamens oo , usually few ; filaments free inserted 

 round base of rudimentary gynseceum, iu bud 2-plicate; anthers 

 introrse, 2 -rimose. Female calyx 6 -partite ; leaves reduplicate, 

 after florescence much foliaceous accrescent, surrounded outside 

 by bracts same in number, shorter alternate (of involucre). Germen 

 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style straight afterwards transversely 

 3-lobed beyond articulation ; leaves thick 2-fid ; divisions inciso- 

 papillose. Fruit capsular 3-dymous, surrounded at basewith accres- 

 cent perianth and involucre. Seed ? — A tree; leaves alternate 

 petiolate entire penninerved large ; flowers racemose, axillary to 

 upper leaves ; female pedicels finally long, calyculate ; ^ lobes of 

 epicalyx alternating with those of calyx, smaller, distinctly 2-gland-- 

 ular.^ (Malaisia.'') 



39. Garcia Eohe.^ — Flowers monoecious ; receptacle convex. 

 Calyx gamophyllus, valvate, unequally or subequally broken (2-4- 

 partite). Male petals to 10, female to 8, 2^seriate, verticillate, 

 strong, outwardly and at margin sub-imbricate, much sericeo-villose. 

 Disk in both sexes shortly urceolate, deeply pectinate-dentate. Sta- 

 mens 00, free; the receptacle dilated between them in ciliate unequal 



SoHUM. et Thonn. Bes&u. 410 {Acalt/pha).— Sort. Bog. 232.— Mia. P^. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



EoXB. Fl. Ind. iii. 828 (JJo«&ra).— Sieb. et 410. 



Zucc. Fl. Jap. t. 79 (-Ko«Ze>-a-).— Bbnth. Niger, * Posth. Pap. 487.— M. Arg. in Linnisa, 



606 [Claoxylon) ; Fl. Austral, vi. 138 {Mallotus). xxxiv. 144 ; ProOr. 1024. 



ZoLL. et MoE. Verzn. 17 (jlfa?»pa).— Thw. * After the maimer of Sibiseus. 



Emm. PL Zeyl. 272 {Rottlera), 273 {Podadenia). * Much better made a sect, of Fchinus ? 



— H. Bit. in Adamonia, i.' 69, 259 ; ii. 223 (JJo<- ' Spec. 1. E. MalayoMus Gbifp. loc. cit. 



iy_ 313. 8 In Act. Soc. JSist. Nat. Safn. ii. 217, t. 9.— 



dr. 613.— Endl. Gen. n. 5821.— H. Bn. Vahl, Symb. Sot.ui.99. — A. JusB. Fuphorb. 41, 



Euphorb. 420.— M. Aeg. Prodr. 1123. t. 13, fig. 40.— Endl. Qen. n. 6797.— H. Bn. 



2 To which genus it is undoubtedly allied. Euphorb. 392, t. 14, fig, 28-38.— M. Aro. Prodr. 



3 Spen. 1. C, Montana Bl. loc. cji.— Hassk. 721. 



