224 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes truncate, exarillate, smooth or unequally-rugose or 

 tuberculate ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo ovate. — Fruit some- 

 times decumbent, oftener scandent or voluble; leaves alternate 

 stipulate penninerved or digitinerved, entire, dentate or lobed, some- 

 times compound ; leaves often petiolate ; iuflorescence 2 -sexual 

 axillary pedunculate ; bracts 2, usually large foliaceous, sometimes 

 coloured/ stipulate ; ^ female flowers laterally inferior, few (gene- 

 rally 3) cymose ; male superior in terminal contracted cymes ; female 

 cymes surrounded by a special pluribractiate involucre ; male above 

 accompanied laterally by fleshy reddish multicristate appendage 

 (sterile bractlets ?^) ; pedicels short articulate.* {All hot regions J") 



93. Pera Mux.® — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 2-5- 

 partite or -fid, valvate, sometimes small or rudimentary. Stamens 

 2-10 often equal in number to sepals ; filaments central, shortly or 

 sometimes long {ScMsmatopera '') connate in column ; anthers in- 

 trorsely laterally or extrorsely 2-rimose. Calyx of female flowers 

 short or evolute ; sepals subfree or more or less high connate. Germen 

 central, 3-locular ; ovules solitary in cells ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior obturated ; style short thick, afterwards divided in large 

 entire or more or less deep crenate. Capsules 3-coccous; cocci 

 2-valved ; endocarp usually solute ; micropyle of very albuminous 

 seeds with incrassate fleshy aril. — Trees,^ glabrous sprinked with 

 fasciculate or lepidote hairs ; leaves alternate or rarely opposite, 

 entire penninerved subcoriaceous exstipulate ; flowers axillary pedi- 

 cellate subsolitary or few cymose included in involucre, involucre 



' Whitisli, yellowish, or rather purpurascent. sonia, i. 75, 277, 360 ; iii. 161 ; v. 309 ; vi. 16. 



2 Small, often whitish. ^ InAbh. der Sehwed. Ahad. v. (1784), 299, 



3 Anthers deformate ? (Aug.). t. 18.— Ex. in Erichs. Arch. (1841), vii. 179.— 

 * A genus constituting a peculiar sect. {Bele- Endl. Gen. u. 5768 (Suppl. ii. 87). — H. Bs. 



ehampiete M. Abo.), formerly part of Huphorbiea Eitphorb. 433, t. 2, fig. 25-27. — M. Aug. Prodr. 



(A. Juss.). We think it allied to Flukenetia, 1025. — Ferula, Schheb. Gen. 703. - 



differing from it hy its abbreviate contracted Leandr. in Muneh. Denkscfir. -ni. 231, t. 13.- 



anthers. Periditmi Sohott. in Spreng. Cwr. Post. App. 



6 Spec, ad 50. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 410. — Kl. he. cit. 180, t. 7 ; in Hook. Journ. 



ii. 98.— Endl. Ataht. t. 20, 21.— Bl. Bijdr. 632. (1843), ii.—Clisiranthus Poit.MSS. (ex H. Bn. 



— Wight, Icon. t. 1882. — P(ep. et Endl. Nov. loe. eit.). 

 Gen. et Spec. iii. 19, t. 222. — Griseb. in Naohr. d. ' Kl. loc cit, t. 7. 



Wiss. Gcett (1865), 181 ; Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 61.— s Habit in some respects that of Monimia- 



Benth. Niger, 600. — M. Arg. isiIAnneea, xxxiv. eeee, Anmacecs or Ardisiacece. 

 219 ; in Flora (1872), 46.— H. Bn. in Adm- 



