220 NATVBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or 6-8 ; the 2-4 interior, alternating with the exterior ; filaments 

 free inserted round rudiment of gynseceum, entire or rarely 2-3-fld 

 (^Eucephalocrotori^) genuflexo-plicate-produced in bud, finally erect and 

 exserted ; anthers in bud and after unfolding always introrse, longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Female calyx 4-6-fid or partite, imbricated. 

 Germen 3-locular ; glands of hypogynou^ disk same in number, 

 alternating with calyx lobes coloured {Chloradenia^) ox {Eucephalo- 

 croton, Adenochlcena ^) ; cells 1-ovulate ; style branches irregularly 2 

 or 2-3-chotomous ramified ; twigs papillose-stigmatiferous. Capsule 

 3-ooccous ; seeds subglobose exarUlate. — Small trees or shrubs ; 

 indumentum usually stellate ; leaves alternate or subopposite petio- 

 late stipulate reticulated ; male flowers terminal glomerate-capitate ; 

 the female below or at remote axils few solitary or pedunculate. 

 {Trop. Asia, Ind. Arch., Eastern Cont. and Ins. Africa.'^) 



85? Coelodepas Hassk.^ — " Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx 3, 4-fid valvate; the female 4-10-partite. Stamens 6-6; 

 exterior alternating with the sepals ; filaments thick inserted round 

 rudiment of gynseceum; anther cells pendulous, free below, in- 

 trorsely rimose. (jermen 3-locular ; cells l-ovulate ; posterior 2 ; 

 style branches 3, wide, 2-lobed ; lobes inciso-pluridentate palmate 

 expanded. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds exarillate ; embryo (coloured) 

 albuminous." — A Javanese tree ; leaves alternate stipulate simple 

 largly serrate, 2-glandular at base ; flower in slender spikes, some- 

 times ramified at base ; the inferior 1, 2, female ; peduncles stellate- 

 tomentose ; male bracts oo -florous.® {JavaJ) 



86. Symphyllia H. Bn.* — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Cephalo- 

 croton) ; male calyx valvate, 3-6-partite. Stamens same in niunber 

 (of Cephalocroton) alternating with the sepals, inserted below 

 rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers 2-locular ; cells introrsely 

 rimose longitudinally adnate, basifixed imbedded, below to a con- 

 siderable extent free, always erect, emarginate on both sides. 



1 M. Akg. Prodr. 761, sect. 2. Bk. in Admsonia, i. 276. 



■•• H. Bn. Buphorb. ill, t. 19, fig. 24, 25.— M. » In Flora (18fi7), 531 ; in Setzia, 44 ; in 



Aug. Prodr. 760, sect 1. — Adenogymnn Eeichb. Bull Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 713. — M. Aug. Prodr. 



P. et ZoLL. Ov. Soort. v. Rottl. 20 ; in Zinnaa, 759. — Koilodepas Hassk. in Bot. Zeit. (1856) 802. 



xxviii. 325. _ ^ A genus whose flowers are unknown to us, 



' BvN. MSS. ex H. Bn. Euphorb. 472. — M. but from description it might he better reduced 



Aeg. Prodr. 762, sect 3. — Centrostylis H . Bn. to a section of Cephalocroton, differing by partiy 



Euphorb. 469, t. 2, fig. 28, 29. free anther cells. 



< Spec, ad 6. Hassk. Sort. Bog. ed. nov. 28 7 Spec. 1. C. bantamense Hassk. loc. cit. 



(Adenoffynum). —Kjj. in Pet. Mossanib. Bot. 99. a Euphorb. 473, t. 11, fig. 6, 7. — M. Arg. 



Thw. Enmn. PI. Zeyl. 270 {Adenoehlana).—^.. Prodr. 763. 



