EUPHORBIACEM. 223 



Fragariopsis) ; male calyx-valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens oo, inserted 

 on more or less convex receptacle, either central or inserted round 

 rudiment of gynseceum; filaments confluent at base; anthers 

 extrorse, 4-lobed ; cells 2, adnate at apex, diverged at base, often 

 deflexed, longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 4-6-partite, im- 

 bricated. Disk urceolar, adhering to calyx, small or 0. Germen 

 3-4-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate, sometimes carinate or thickly subulate 

 at back ; style varied in form, thickly cylindrical or obovoid, or 

 obpyramidal, sometimes sublobose, stigmatiferous, subentire or 

 shortly lobed at apex ; furrows 3, 4, radians tumido-marginate. 

 Fruit capsular ; mesocarp more or less thick or rather fleshy, solute 

 from cells of endocarp finally 2-valved ligneous; seeds exarillate 

 albuminous. — Shrubs usually scandent ; ^ leaves alternate petiolate 

 stipulate penninerved or 3-5-nerved ; limb furnished with at base 

 2 glands and same number of stipels; fiowers in '2 -sexual axillary 

 racemes ; female inferior 1- co ; others male.^ (^All warm regions.^) 



92. Dalechampia Plum.* — Flowers monoecious apetalous; male 

 calyx valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens subdefiuite (5-10) or oftener co ; 

 filaments in central column cylindrical oi- subclavate, long 1- 

 adelphous, finally free ; anther 2 -locular; cells longitudinally adnate, 

 extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 5 -15 -partite; leaves imbricated or 

 valvate, entire or pinnatifid. Germen ^ 3-4-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; 

 style cylindrical or clavate at apex, or laterally more or less hollow 

 below apex inwardly stigmatiferous, entire or 3-6-lobed ; lobes small 

 equal or unequal, opposite cells alternating with them. Fruit cap- 

 sular 3-4-coccous elastically dehiscing ; seeds globose or ellipsoidal 



&m. n. 5784. — A. Juss. Euphorh. 47. — H. Bn. Lpwuea, xxiii. 110. — M. Akg. in Linneea, xxxiv. 



Euphorb. 483. — M. Abg. Prodr. 76S.—Anabcena 137 ; in Flora (1864), 630. Gbisbb. Fl. Brit. 



A. Juss. Euporb. 46, t. 15, fig. 48.— Endl. Gen. W.-Ind. 46. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iii. 160 



n. 5785. — Sajoriiim, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iii. 98, {Sajorium) ; v. 309. 



— H. Bn. Evphorb. 480, t. 21, fig. S, i.—Sedraio- < Nov. Gen. Amer. 17, t. 38.— L. Gen. u. 1081. 



atylus'Bj^sss.. Sort. Bog. M.—PterococeusJikSSS.. — AjtkSB. Earn, des PI. ii. S57. — J. Gen. 392. — 



in Flora (1842), Beibl. ii. 41 (nee Pall.). Lamk. Diet. ii. 256 ; Suppl. ii. 447 ; III. t. 788. 



■ Some parts, especially the flower and fruit, — A. Juss. Euphorb. 55, t. 17, fig. 59. — H. Bn. 



imbued with a purple or subviolet juice. Eivphorb. 58, 486, t. 3, fig. 16-33. — M. Arq. 



2 Sect. 5 : 1. Evplukenetm (M. Abo.) ; 2. Prodr. 1232. — Baker, Fl. Maurit. 316. — Oremo- 

 Cylindrophora (M. Aeg.) ; 3. Anabana (A. Juss); phylliim Schweedl. in Flora (1843), 514 ; in^o*. 

 4. Angostylidiitm (M. Abo.) ; 5. Sedraioslylm Zeit. (1849), 141. — Rhopalostylis Kl. MSS. (ex 

 (Hasbk.). H. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 317). 



3 Spec, about 10. Eumph. Herb. Amboin. i. * In species sect. 1, surrounded with oupuli- 

 193, t. 79 (Sajor).—!!. Spec. 1192. — W. Spee. iv. form disk. Champadelia (H. Bn. Euphorb. 485, 

 614.— Sm. in Nov. Aet. Opsal. vi. 4.— Sond. in t. 3, fig. 31, 32). 



