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2-lobed. at apex. Fruit 5-coccoiis. . . . — A glabrous shrub ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate, entire penninerved ; flowers in sbort 

 axillary racemes alternately cymose; cymes in axils of bracts or 

 small leaves 1-2-sexual ; female cymose or central in 2 -sexual cymes; 

 male more numerous slender and shorter pedicellate. [Insular 

 Eastern trop. Africa, India ?) See p. 142. 



114. Savia W.^ — Flowers (nearly of Wielqndia) monoecious or 

 dioecious (Eusavia^)', calyx imbricated. Petals 5, or fewer by 

 abortion, sub-orbiculate(C%«nrfm ^)or narrow [Petalodiscus,'^ Eusavia.) 

 Disk annular {Eusavia), or of 5 glands, short thick [Charidia)^ some- 

 times wide petaloid {Petalodiscus) constant. Androceum of Wielandia. 

 Female perianth and disk as in male flower. Germen 3-locular. 

 Capsular 3-locular ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds exarillate ; cotyledons 

 of albuminous embryo flat or more or less corrugate, wider than 

 albumen. — Small trees or shrubs; leaves alternate stipulate (of 

 Wielandia) ; flowers in racemes sometimes short cymiferous ; female 

 longer and thicker pedicellate than male ; rachis of racemes some- 

 times ancipiti-complanate. ( West. India, Malacassia}) 



115? Actephila Bl.® — Flowers (nearly of Savia) monoecious 

 or dioecious ; receptacle sub-plane or rather convex ; sepals and petals 

 (whence sometimes perigynous) imbricated. Disk extrastaminal, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted round rudiment of 3-lobed gynseceum ; 

 filaments free or more or less high connate ; anthers sub-globose ; 

 cells short long adnata, usually introrsely rimose. Perianth and 

 disk of female flower as ia male. Germen''' 3-locular ; cells 2- 

 ovulate; obturator thick ; style branches 3, 2-fid. Capsule 3-coccate ; 

 cocci 2-valved. Seeds exarillate ; albumen 0, slightly mucous between 

 folds of embryo, radicle short ; cotyledons unequal thick ; one 

 dorsally convex, the other dorsally wide refracted concave at margia, 

 long sub-involved ; or sometimes {lAthoxylon) alternately long 



J Spec. iv. 771 (neo Kapin.). — A. Jues. 32 ; in Nachr. d. Oes. Univ. Qoett. (1865), 163. 



Euphorb. 15, t. 2.— Endl. Oen. n. 5866.— H. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, ii. 33 ; viii. 346. 



Bn. Euphorb. 669 (part.).— M. Arg. Prodr. 228 « Bijdr. 581.— Endl. Gen. n. 6867.— M. Aug. 



(part.). Frodr. 224. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 360, t. 



2 H. Bn. Euphorb. 570, t. 26, fig. 20-23. W.—Lithoxylon Endl. Gen. n. 6863.— H. Bn. 



-' H. Bn. he. cit. 672. Euphorb. 690. — Anomospermum Dalz. in Sook. 



* H.' Bn. loo. oit. 571, t. 22, fig. 11-14. Joiwn. (1851), 228. 



' Spec, ad 12. Sw. Prodr. 100 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. ' Sometimes surrounded at base by sterile or 



1179 [Croton). — Spkeng. Syst. iii. 903. — A. fertile stamens, 1- or few with short filament 



Rich. Cuba, iii. 216, t. 70 {Phyllanthus). — and extrorse anther. {Adansonia, vi. t. 10, 



Gkiseb: pi. Wright. 157 j El- Brit. W.-Ind. fig. 6.) 



