BUPHOBBIAOE^. 805 



55 ? Ditta Geiseb/ — Flowers dioecious ; male . . . ? Disk and 

 calyx of female flowers 0. Germen 2-locTilar; ovule ia cells 1 (of 

 Eupliorbiacese) ; branclies of thick style short, 2-partite ; erect 

 slightly conical. Fruit drupaceous-capsular without columella ; seeds 

 scrobiculate exariUate. — A glabrous resinous shrub ; ^ leaves alternate 

 spathulate-lanoeolate dentate-crenate' penninerved articulate- veined, 

 shortly petiolate, 2-stipulate ; flowers axillary, congesto-glomerulate 

 on common peduncle ; pedicels juibricate-bracteolate below flower ; 

 bracts opposite few, entire or the lower palmate-2, 3-partite.* ( Cuba.*) 



56. Adriana Gaudich.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous eglandular ; 

 male calyx 3-5-partite, valvate. Stamens oo, inserted on shortly 

 conical receptacle ; filaments short erect ; anthers adnate, extrorsely 

 2-rimose, connective produced beyond cells, entire or serrate, acumi- 

 nate. Sepals in female flowers 3-8, imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; 

 ovules soKtary ; branches of scarcely 3-partite style long 2-fid linear 

 densely stigmatiferous. Capsules 3-coccous, verrucose-rough ; seeds 

 arUlate foveolate albuminous. — Shrubs ; indumentum stellate,® some- 

 times scanty; leaves opposite {Trachycaryon''') or oftener alternate 

 {Euadriana ^), entire lobed or dentate ; stipules often glanduliform ; 

 flowers entire lobed or dentate ; stipules often glanduliform ; male 

 flowers interrupted-glomerate-spicate ; female racemose. {Australia.^) 



57 ? Keoboutonia M. Arg.^" — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; 

 male calyx 2-partite, valvate. Stamens oo, central; filaments firee 

 inserted on convex pilose receptacle ; anthers basiflxed ; cells adnate 

 introrse, rimose. Female calyx quincuncially-imbricate. Germen 

 3-locular ; style branches 3, 2-partite. Fruit . . . ? — A tree or 

 shrub (?) ; indumentum stellate radians ; leaves alternate long 

 petiolate, entire or repando-sublobed, 7-9-nerved reticulate veined ; 

 jlowers terminal and axillary ; male " in compound ramified spikes ; 

 female spicate-racemose. {Trop. West. Africa}'^) 



1 PI. Wright. 160. — M. Akg. Proclr. 1138. ^ K.BN.Mphorb. 406 (sect. including 1 species, 



** In some respects with the habit of very variable, F. MuelIi. Trans. Soc. Sot. Edinb. 



Myricaria. vii. 482). 



' A genus of uncertain position placed here ' Spec. 3, v. i, 6. Labul. PI. Nouv.SoU. 



in Prodrom. ii. 73, t. 223 {Croton). — Hook, in Mitoh. Trap. 



* Spec. 1. D. myricoides Qkiseb. he. cit. Austral. 124, 371. — F. Mtjell. in Hook. Journ. 



5 In Ann. So. Nat. sir. 1, v. 223 ; in Freyein. viii. (1856), 209 ; in Tram. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 



Voy. Vran. Bot. 486, t. 116. — Endl. G-en. n. 16. — Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 133.— H. Bn. in 



5820.— H. Bn. Muphori. 405, t. 2, fig. 19-22 ; t. Adanaonia, vi. 311. 



18, fig. 12.— M. Ako. Frodr. 890. " In Seem. Jou/rn. of Bot. i. 336 ; Prodr. 



' In calyx often simple. 892. 



' Kl. in Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. VJ5,—Crototerum " Minute. 



Desvx. herb, (ex H. Bn.). ^ Spec. 1. N. africana M. Aro. loe. eit. 



