238 NATURAL HI8T0RY OF PLANTS. 



{Cluyttandra^) ; receptacle convex or rather concave. Perianth, 

 hypogynous or slightly perigynous, generally 5-merous; sepals 

 imbricated ; petals imbricated or narrow not touching. Glands of 

 extrastaminal disk oppositipetalous, free or connate in membraneous 

 crenate urceolum. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted on receptacle 

 scarcely or not at all elevated above variously shaped rudimentary 

 gynseceum ; filaments free or oftener 1-adelphous ; anthers introrse 

 or lateral ; cells short longitudinally rimose. Germen 3-locular ; 

 cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 3, stigmatiferous, 2-fid or 2-lobed at 

 apex. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds albuminous exarillate. — Shrubs, 

 undershrubs or herbs ; stem erect or decumbent ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate penninerved or sub-3 -nerved ; flowers^ axillary solitary or 

 cymose, more rarely in cymiferous racemes ; female pedicels thicker 

 longer.^ [All warm and temp, regions.^) 



119. Poranthera Eudge.^ — Flowers monoecious ; receptacle sub- 

 plane or rather convex. Sepals 5, imbricated and petals same in 

 number, shorter, imbricated. Glands of disk 5, oppositipetalous, 2- 

 lobed. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments from three laminee 

 under rudimentary gynseceum membraneous subpaleaceous con- 

 stantly obovate, free finally elongated and much incurved ; 

 anthers basifixed; cells 4, shortly subporicide rimose at apex. 

 Germen 3-locular ; cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 3 from base, 2- 

 partite papillose stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds generally 

 6, subglobose foveolate ; semicylindrical cotyledons of terete embryo 

 subequal to or shorter than radicle. — Herbs or cricoid undershrubs, 

 erect or diffuse ramified ; leaves alternate stipulate narrow linear ; 



fig. 29. — Nees, Gen. ii. t. 39. — Endl. Gen. n. whence to Amanoa, differing from the section, 



S841.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 575, t. 27, fig. 18.— M. with hypogynous oppositipetalous glands by 



Arg. Prodr. iZ2.—TelepMoides T. Inst. Cor. 50, hahit. 



t. 485. — Aradme Neck. Elem. n. lliQ.—Erac- * Spec, about 12Lamk. Diet. ii. 212, n. 35 {Cro- 



Kmb PoRSK. Descr. Oeg.-Arah. 208. — Limetm ton). — Spreno. Syii. iii. 884. — Sibth. J';. Grac. 



FoESK. loo. cit. (nee L.). — Masehalanthm x. t. 953. — Eeiohb. 7c. i=Y. Germ. v. fig. 4807. — 



NuTT. J?l. Arkans. (nee Auott.). — Leptopus Done, in Ann. Mm. iii. 484. — Scheele, in 



Dcne. in Votj. Jacqttem. Bot. iv. 155, t. 156. — Limima, xxv. 583 {Cluytia). —&otsj>. in LinncBa, 



Zepidmthus Nutt. MSS. (ex Torr. Mex. Bound. xxiii. 135 {Phyllanthm).—'BQj.. Bnum. PI. Chin. 



Surv. 193). — Phyllanthopsis Scheel. in Linnaa, 59. — Kl. in JFaldem. Sets. 117, t. 24 {Phyllan- 



XXV. 584. — Phyllanthidea Diedb. PI. nonu.. Mm. thm). — Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 365.— Brass. 



hafn. (1853), 29. Dingn. PL Or. vii. 86.— M. Arc. in Zinnaa, 



1 M. Arg. in Seem. Journ. (1864), 328; xxxii. 78.— H. Bn. in^(?a«jio;(ta, iii. 153; vi. 334. 

 Prodr. 225. - In Trans. lAnn. Soc. x. 302, t. 22, fig. 2.— 



2 Small usually greenish yellowish or Ad. Br. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, xxix. 383. — 

 whitish. Endl. Gen. n. 5859.— H. Bn. Euphjrb. 573, t. 



' A genus hence nearly allied to Phyllanthua 25, fig. 1-9. — M. Arg. Prodr. 191. 



