MVPHOBBIACE^. 221 



Female calyx 5-6-partite, imbricated. Germen 2-3-locular ; style 

 branches divaricate-patent, inwardly densely papillose-fimbriate. 

 CapsTile ratber flesby, 1-spermous by abortion, mature ? — Shrubs 

 sub-2-cbotomous ramified ; leaves alternate or collected at summit of 

 twigs, falsely verticillate-stipulate, often subsessUe, entire or 

 denticulate penninerved ; flowers in terminal ramified spikes, usually 

 glomeruliferous ; female in each inferior or in the axils of upper 

 leaves few.i {East India.^) 



87. Sphssrostylis H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious; male calyx 

 valvate, 3-partite; sepals at base inwardly horizontally finally 

 (in false annular disk) plicate-prominent. Stamens 3, alternating 

 with sepals ; filaments central, l-adelphous ; anthers inserted at 

 summit of column, introrse finally subhorizontally-reflexed, longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Female calyx 5-6-partite, valvate or slightly 

 imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; cells opposite exterior sepals 1-ovu- 

 late. Style many times larger than germen globose, fleshy, 3-sulcate 

 at apex ; furrows alternating with cells radiant from centre and 

 stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds smooth. — A scandent 

 shrub ; leaves alterna,te ovate 3-plinerved petiolate ; stipules articu- 

 late ; flowers in spicate axillary or terminal racemes ; male bracts 

 superior oo, 1-florous ; inferior few female. {Madagascar.*) 



88. Astrococcus Benth.^ — Flowers monoecious; male calyx 

 valvate, 4-partite. Stamens 4-8, central inserted in concave receptacle 

 or round rudiment of gynseceum ; filaments free or l-adelphous at 

 base ; anthers introrse emarginate ; ceUs all longitudinally adnate, 

 longitudinally rimose. Disk round urceolate androceum, thick 

 4-agonal, 4-lobed, or {Hcematostemon.") Female calyx 4-7 -partite, 

 imbricated. 'Germen 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style thick obovoid, 

 concave and outwardly unequally- 6-sulcate stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 Capsule horizontally saccate- 1-3-coccous, narrow and subpyramidal 

 at apex ; cocci and back thickly cornute-2-cristate. Seed descendent, 

 more or less oblique, albuminous. — Trees ; leaves alternate ; shortly 



^ A genus allied to Cephalocroton, differing ■• Spec. 1. S. Tulasneana H. Bk. loo. eit. 467 ; 



by constitution of antkers, fruit, habit and in Adansonia, i. 276. 



inflorescence. - In Sook. Journ. (1864), 327. — H. Bn. 



s Spec. 2. Wall. exs. n. 9095 {Clutia).—'^.. Euphori. 476, t, 22, fig. 22-24.— M. Ako. Frodr. 



Aeo. in Linncea, zxxIt. 166. 766. 



3 Hiiphori. 466, t. 21, fig. 19-21. — M. Aug. '^ M. Aug. in Linncea, xxxiv. 167 ; Frodt. 



Prodr. 768. 767, sect. 2. 



