02 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



than long. — Unarmed shrubs or spinescent at apex of twigs ; leaves 

 alternate penninerved, entire or dentate pellucid punctulate ; axil of 

 secondary nerves depressed-glandular below, and pilose ; flowers in 

 fasciculate axillary pulvinules. ' (Trop. N. and S. America. ^) 



49. Bernardia Hotjst. ^— Flowers monoecious or dioecious 

 (nearly of Bicinella), 3-6-merous ; male calyx valvate ; female im- 

 bricate. Stamens =o ^ central free ; anthers 2-locular ; ceUs subglobose 

 short more or less adnate to receptacle, introrsely or laterally rimose. 

 Germen (in male flower rudimentary minute or 0) 3-locular ; cells 

 alternatiag with interior sepals, 1 -ovulate ; style discrete at base and 

 inserted round subhians vertex of germen, stigmatiferous 2-fld at 

 apex. Fruit capsular ; seeds exarillate. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; 

 indumentum simple or stellate ; leaves alternate, sometimes minute 

 squamiform, 2-stipulate ; flowers spicate or subsolitary axillary ; spikes 

 simple or oftener the male alternate cymiferous or glomeruliferous, 

 sometimes shortly subcapitate j bracts often closely imbricated ; 

 female 1-florous ; male co -florous pedicels articulate. * {Trop. 

 America N. and S.^) 



50. Adenophaedra M. Aug.® — Flowers dioecious (nearly of 

 Bernardia) generally 3-merous ; male receptacle eglandular. Stamens 

 3, alternating with valvate sepals (or more rarely 6); filaments 

 inserted below small rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers short, 2- 

 rimose ; connective at apex bearing large glands. Other characters 

 of Bernardia. — Trees and shrubs ; indumentum simple ; leaves alter- 



\ A. geims3\i\ei.toAcido(!roton&uA. Bernardia, 504.— PassiEsH. Bn. Suphorh. 607, t. 18, fig. 



and hence to TournesoUa, Echinus, ' and 28-35. — Alevia H. Bn. op. cit. 508. 



Acalypha. * Allied to preceding genus differing by the 



' Spec. 7, 8. L. Amoen. y. 410 {Adelia). — P. insertion of the style.— Sect. 6, soil. : 1. Tyria 



Bk. Jam. 361 {Bernardia 2). — Lamk. Diet. i. 40 (Kl.). — 2. Polyhaa (Kl.).— 3. Phyllopassaa (M. 



{Adelia). — Eioh. M. Cab. 210 (AdeUa). — Akg.). — 4. Tragcaithus (Kl.).— 5. Passeea (H. 



ScHLTL. in Zinniea, vi. 362 {Adelia). — Soheble, Bn.). — 6. Alevia (H. Bn.). 



in Linntea, xxv. 581 {Tyria). 5 Spec, ad 20. L. Spec. ed. 3, 1473 {Oroton). 



3 Jam. 361 (part, nee Vill.).— Adanb. Fam. — Geis. Crot. Monoyr. 15, 60 (Ooio»).— jAca. 



dfs PI. ii. 366. — M. Arg. in Zinncea, xxxiv. 171 Sel. Stirp. Amer. 254 {Acalyplia). W. Spec. iv. 



(part.) ; Prodr. 916 (part.).— H. Bn. in Adan- 663 (Cj-o^ore).— Kl. in Sooh. Jowm. (1843), 46 



sonia, xi. 102.— iffeim L. n. 1137 (part.).— J. {Traganthus).~RooTL. et Ani. Beech. Voy.Bot. 



Gte. 388 (part.).— H. Bn. Hiiphorb. il7 {-pait.). 309 (^srmesiB ?).— Schltl. in Ltnnaa (1832), 



—BtvoniaSpssNe. N.Phtid. U.1U {neo DC.).— 386 {Acalypha).— A.. Ricb.. Cuba, 209 {Adelia). 



Traganthus 'Kl. in Erichs. Arch. (1841), 188, t. — Griseb. PZ. Wnght. 159; Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 



9 A.— H. Bn. Muphorl. 503.— Tyria Kl. ex 46.— H. Bn. in Adanaonia, iv. 372, t. 10, 11 



Endl. &en. Suppl. iv. 88, n. 57S7>,—Phtedra 11 {Adelia). 



Kl. ex Endl. loc. cit. n. 5767.^.— Polybaa Kl. s In Mart. Fl. Bras. Euphorb. (afterwards 



e? Enpl. loc. cit. n. 67856. — H, Bn, Euphorb, taken out of common order). 



