204 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



seeds subglobose exarillate. {Asia,, Oceania, Africa and Trop. 

 America}) 



53. Endospermuin Benth. ' — Flowers dioecious apetalous. Male 

 calyx gamophyllus, TineqTiaUy-3-5-denticulate, at first slightly im- 

 bricate. Stamens 6-10, 2-seriate verticillate inserted on erect central 

 column ; filaments free recurved at apex ; anthers extrorse peltate, 3- 

 4-valved. Disk vaginiform clothing base of androceum column. 

 Germen rudimentary placed at summit of column. Calyx unequally- 

 4-5-dentate. Germen 2-locular, outwardly surrounded by hypogy- 

 nous disk ; style afterwards divided into 2 stigmatiferous lobes, diski- 

 form subsessile and alternately connate.. Ovule solitary in cells ; 

 micropyle extrorse superior obtected with marginal denticulate 

 obturator. Fruit 2-merous, indehiscent; mesocarp thin, finally 

 separating from permagentaceous endocarp ; columella ; testa of 

 exarillate seeds hard, outwardly aculeate-rugose. — Trees; leaves^ 

 alternate petiolate ; 2-stipulate, penniaerved or at base sub-3-plinerved 

 reticulate-venose, sometimes below base of limb largely 2-glandidar ; 

 indumentum stellate ; flowers in racemes or spikes axillary elongated 

 cymuliferous. (China, Malaisia, Borneo.'^) 



54. Erismanthus Wall.? — Flowers monoecious, apetalous. Male 

 calyx oblique with compressed receptacle elongated ; folioles 5, very 

 Txnequal imbricated ; the posterior larger. Stamens 8-15; filaments 

 central free ; anthers introrse obtusely marginate ; ceUs adnate, 

 introrsely rimose. " Female sepals 5, widely foliaceous, imbricated. 

 Germen 3-locular ; ovules^ in cells 1, with obturator; style 3-fid; 

 branches 2 -partite stigmatiferous hirtus-papillose at apex. Fruit . . .? " 

 — A shrub, as appears, scandent ; leaves opposite subsessile penni- 

 nerved, male flowers in axils of leaves or at summit of twigs in an 

 ovoid subsessile amentum ; bracts of amentum crowded, imbricate, 1- 

 florous ; flowers shortly pedicellate, laterally 2-bracteolate; " female 

 in axillary peduncles pauoibracteate, terminal and solitary."' (Ins. 

 Penang. ^) 



' Species atout 12, of -which, some six axe 469. 



from warm. S.) Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 209. » Cat. n. 8011.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 669 {Ere- 



— Thw. Rmm. Fl. Zeyl. 272.— Daiz. in Sooh. manthus).-^. Abo. Piodr. 1138. 



Jom-n. (1851), 229 {Mottlera).—H.. Bn. in Adan- « " Omnino euphorbiaceo." (M. Arg.) 



sonia, ii. 218 ; iv. 270 ; xi. 129. 7 Habit scarcely of Euphorbiacea ; the wide 



2 Fl. Konghong. 304.— M. ^sa.FroAr. 1131. unequal base of the leaves does not indicate a 



3 By some referred to Aleurites on account of subauriculate branch. 



entire leaves and nervation. s Spec. 1. B. obliguus Wall. loc. cit. 



* Spec, ad 4, 6. M. Aro. in Flora (1864), 



