EUPHOBBIAOE^. 21S 



central; filaments free or I-adelphous at base ; anthers introrse or 

 extrorse. Female calyx 4-6 -partite, imbricated. Germen surrounded 

 by cupular disk (or 0) 2-3-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate ; style more or less 

 bigb or nearly to base 2-3-ramose ; branches simple or 2-fld, some- 

 times 2 -partite, more rarely rather wide or subpetaloid,- stigmatife- 

 rous within. Capsule sometimes outwardly rather fleshy 2-3- 

 locular ; seeds smooth or tuberculate, exarillate or scantily arillate. 

 — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate stipulate penninerved or oftener 

 3-5-plinerved, entire or more rarely dentate or crenate ; ^ flowers in 

 cymiferous or glomeruliferous spikes or racemes ; bracts often 2- 

 glandular at base.^ [All hot regions '). 



71. Mareya H. Bn.* — Flower (nearly of Alchornea), monoecious ; 

 male calyx 3-4-partite, valvate. Stamens oo , or 8-20 ; filaments 

 inserted on small glandular receptacle ; anther qells free clavate pen- 

 dulous from glandular connective, finally ascendent, extrorsely 

 rimose ; sepals of female 4, 5 ; the exterior 2, 3, subvalvate ; the 

 interior either 2 or sometimes others smaller, imbricated. Disk 

 hypogynous evolute ; lobes sometimes unequal membraneous alter- 

 nating with germen cells. Germen (in male flower sometimes but 

 rarely rudimentary), sessile 3-locular ; ovules solitary; style branches 

 3, oblong long papillose- stigma tiferous. Capsule 3-ooccous ; seeds 

 smooth ; micropyle not at all or slightly arillate. — A tree ; leaves 

 alternate, petiolate glandular-maculate, 2-stipidate ; flowers crowded*, 

 glomerate-spicate axillary ; the female usually in central glomerules ; 

 others male. {Trop. West Africa.^) 



72? Gephalomappa H. Bn''. — Flowers monoecious apetalous; 

 male calyx obconical, verruculose at apex, unequally 2-4-fid, valvate. 

 Stamens 2-4 (oftener 3) ; iQserted on common central stipes ; other 



• Limb below at base glandular 2-6 macu- Ind. iii. 693 {Sapium). — P(epp. et Exdl. Nov. 



late, bence afterwards often sparingly macu- Gen. et Spec. iii. 18, t. 221. — Casau. JSfov. Stirp. 



late. 24, n. 20. — Bekth. Niger. 607. — Kl. in Sook. 



2 Sect, (ex M. Aro.) 10, soU. : 1. Palissya Joum. (1843), 46.— G^kiseb. M. Brit. W.-Ind. 

 (H. Bn.) ; 2. Wetria (H. Bn.) ; 3. Coticeveiiimi 46. — M. Akg. in Seem. Joum. i. 333 {Lepidotu- 

 (A. Juss.) ; 4. Stipellaria (Benth.) ; 6. Orfilea rus). — H. Bn., in Adansonia, i. 73, 274, 285 

 (H. Bn.) ; 7. Lanrembergia (H. Bn.) ; 8. Sidal- [Palissya) ; v. 307 {Apatristlmim'ni) ; vi. 321 

 ehornea (M, Aug.) ; 9. Cladodes (Loue.) ; 10. (Cladodea) ; xi. 175, u. 76. 



Calebogyne i^TiL.) ; \\. Euakhornea QS.. AvlO). — * In Adansonia, i. 73. — M. Aaa. Prodr. 



To which may be added; 5, Zepidoturus (H. 7s)2. 



Bn.). from its slightly carunculate seed generi- s gmaU, whitish, fragrant. 



oally separated in Prodr. (898) and (better f) ^ One spec. M. leonensis, very variable. — 



12. Alehorneopsiv (M. Arg. Pro*'. 764), an in- M. spicaia, K. Bn, ho. cit.Ti. — M. micrantha 



completely known stirps generically distinct M. Arq. loe. cit. — Aoalypha leonensis Benih. 



by its free anther cells, imequal valves. Niger, 504. — A. micrantha Bbnth. loc. cit, 



3 Spec, ad 40. H. B. PI. ^guin. i. 162, t. 46.— 605. 



Mart, in Flora (1841), ii, Beibl. 31 — Roxb. M. In Adansonia, xi. 130. 



