EVPHORBIAOE^. 219 



(Ctenomeria) 1, or more rarely few (sometimes 0) female; the I'est 

 male oo . (South Brasil,^ South Africa?) 



82. Bocquillona H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous; male 

 calyx 2-3-partite. Stamens 2, 3, central ; filaments central or in- 

 serted on glandular receptacle, below small rudiment of short 

 gynseceum, connate at base; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Female 

 calyx 4-5-fid or partite ; prsefloration . . . ? Germen 3-looular ; 

 cells 1 -ovulate; style branches 3, sessile or subsessile, carnose-sub- 

 petaloid, 3-angular-obovate, more or less crenate plicate papillose 

 within, sometimes subcarinate. Capsule 3-coccous, often villosulose ; 

 seeds slightly or not arillate at mioropyle. — Trees or shrubs; 

 branches often thick; leaves alternate simple, sometimes penni- 

 nerved, entire sinuate or dentate ; petiole usually short-2 -stipulate ; 

 male flowers small crowded densely glomerulate in wood of branches ; 

 female subracemose or oftener subcapitate, cymose in wood of 

 branches, often shortly pedtmculate.* {N. Caledonia.^) 



83? Cladogynos Zipp.^ — "Flowers monoecious;^ male calyx 

 coloured, 2-3-partite, valvate. Stamens 4, central ; filaments connate 

 at base ; anthers introrsely rimose. Female calyx large foliaceous, 

 6-fid. Germen 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style 3-fid glandular- 

 plumose ramified. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds solitary in cells carun- 

 culate. — An erect simply ramified whitish-tomentose shrub ; leaves 

 petiolate subpeltate repando-dentate sub-3-lobed, reticiilate tomentose 

 below ; male flowers capitate-congested ; female long pedicellate.^ " 

 {Timor ^ Celebes?) 



84. Cephalocroton Hochst.^" — Flowers monoecious apetalous; 

 male calyx valvate, 3-4 -partite. Stamens 4, alternating with sepals 



1 Spec. 1. L. Jiastata Kl. loe. ait. Akg. JProdr. 896. 



2 Spec. 1. L. eapensis M. Aeo. Frodr. 926.— ' " Androgyni," as they say. 



Tragia calends Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 14. — ' A genus quite unknown to us, and of dubious 



Ctenomeria cordata Hakv. loo. cit. — H. Bn. in affinity ; whether a species of Cephaloeroton sect. 



Adansonia, iii. 161.— <7. Kraussiana Hochst. in Ohloradenia, orthe same as Calpigyne'&h. (p. 132, 



Flora (1845), 86. — SoND. in Linnaa, xxiii. 110. not 1, 4°) ? 



' In Adansonia, ii. 225. — M. Auo. Frodr. ' Spec. 1. C. orientalis Zipp. loo. cit. — Gon- 



894. ceveibum tomentosmn Span. loc. cit. (nee. 



* A genus remarkable from its peculiar Spkeng.). 



habit. "* In Plo^i^ (1841), 370.— Endl. Gen. n. 



5 SpeQies yet known 6. M. Arg. in Zinncea, 67961.— H. Bn. Enphorb. 474, t. 18, fig. 24-27 ; 



jcoiv. 166.— H. Bn. op. cit. ii. 226 ; xi. 127. in Adansonia, v. 147.— M. Aro. in linnaia, 



« Ex Span, in JOnnisa, xv. 349.— Endl. xxxiv. 155 ; in Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen. xvii. 460, 



Qen. Suppl. ii. 89.^H. Bn. Euphorb. 468.— M. fig. D, 1-4 ; Prodr. 760. 



