200 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



racemose spikes; female spicate; spike branches 1-fl.orous at apex 

 composed of lateral and flowerless bracts ; male bracts l-5-fl,orous; 

 pedicels articulate.^ (Cuba.^) 



44? Pseudocroton M. Aeg.^ — "Flowers dioecious; male calyx 

 4-partite, valvate. Petals 4, imbricate. Glands of extrastaminal 

 disk 4, free alternipetalous. Stamens 16-20; filaments free short 

 inserted round distinctly entire rudimentary gynseceum; anthers 

 always erect, 2-rimose; cells adnate longitudinally to connective. 

 Female flower. . . ? — A shrub (or tree ?) ; leaves alternate petiolate 

 minutely 2-stipulate penninerved veiaed, below, or the entire plant 

 protected by ferruginous angular scales ; male flowers subterminal 

 abbreviate racemulose.* (Guatemala.^)" 



45. Suregarda Roxb.^ — Flowers monoecious or offcener dioecious 

 apetalous; receptacle rather convex. Sepals 4, 6, imbricate, un- 

 equal; the exterior sometimes {Ceratophorus) dorsally cucullate. 

 Stamens oo, free; filaments erect; the receptacle between their 

 bases outwardly sometimes slightly glandular thickened; anthers 

 adnate, extrorsely 2-rimose. Germen surrounded by base of disk 

 shortly urceolate,- and often with oo stamiuodes, unequal acute, 

 2-3-locular ; style short, afterwards divided into thick short stigma- 

 tiferous lobes, 2-4-fid ; ovule in cell solitary. Fruit capsular, sub- 

 drupaceous or fleshy, with difficulty or easily dehiscing ; seed albu- 

 minous exarillate, generally smooth. — Small trees or shrubs gene- 

 rally glabrous ; leaves alternate or opposite simple coriaceous penni- 

 nerved veined ; stipules 2 ; cicatrice sometimes linear ; petiole short ; 

 flowers axillary or oftener oppositifolious, terminal or fasciculate 

 cymose. {Trop. Asia and Oceania^ South and East Africa Ins. and Cont?') 



46. Elateriospermum Bl.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; 



' Eesembling the genus Iticinella and nearly (1803). — A. Juss. Euphorb. 60. — Endl. Gm. n. 



allied to tte American sect. TournesoUa. 5883. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 395 ; in Adausonia, xi. 



^ ^^ea.Z.Q:B.issB.loc.cU.;iiiNachr.d.K(xnigl. 92. — Gelonium RoxB. in W. Spec. PI. iv. 831 



Gesellsch. d. Wiss. d. Univ. QwU. (1865), 175.— (1806) ; M. Ind. iii. (1832), 829, neo G.EIITN.). 



M. Arg. Trodr. 756. — A. Juss. he. cit. 34, t. 10. — Endl. Gen. n. 



3 In i?;ora (1872), 24. 5817.— M. Akg. Prodr. 1126.— Eiythroearpus 



* " Gen. juxta Leuroerotonem inserend. a quo Bl. Bijdr. 604. — Ceratophortts Sond. in Linnaa, 

 prseter petala evoluta et flor. 4-meroa char, gra- xxiii. 120. — H. Bn. in Adanaonia, iii. 164. 

 vior. seq. differt : reoept. baud elevat. nidim. ' Spec, ad 12. Wight, Icon. t. 1867 [Gelo- 

 ovarii evolutum infundo oalycia intra stam. lib. niwn). — Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 462 (Qelo- 

 nee in columna stam. insert. Habit, et prsea. niwm). H. Bn. in Admsonia, i. 252, 349 ; iii. 184. 

 lepid. ferr. Crotonem simaM,, aed authersD in ala- ^ Py'dr. 620 (part.). — Endl. Gen. n. 8800. — 

 bastr. ereotaS et circa rudim. sitae." H. Bn. EwpTwrb. 397, t. 19, fig. 26, 27 (neo 28). 



* Spec. 1. P. tinetm-ius M. Arg. he. cit. — M. Akg. Prodr. 1130. 

 " Ex W. in Act. Soe. Cur. Nat. Berol. iv. 206 



