242 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



apetalous ; ^ sepals usually 5, imbricated, sometimes 6, 2-seriate 

 ( Colmeiroa.^) Glands of disk 5, alternating with sepals, free or con- 

 nate in cup or ring. Stamens 5, opposite sepals ; filaments inserted 

 round rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers 2-locular ; cells long adnate 

 introrsely longitudinally [Securinegastrum^) or sublateraUy ((?eZ/^^a*), 

 usually extrorsely (i^tey^ea ®) rimose. Germen 2-3-locular, in male 

 flower rudimentary, 2-3 -partite, sometimes radiate produced between 

 base of stamens (Neoroepera^) , surrounded by disk (sometimes very 

 small) ;''' cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 2, 3, stigmatiferous, 2-fid or 

 2-lobed at apex. Fruit capsular, 2-3-coccus, rarely subfleshy, and 

 finally late or with difiB.culty dehisciag; sometimes more rarely 

 baccate indehiscent; seeds smooth, often 3-agonal; cotyledons of 

 albuminous embryo flat foHaoeous. — Small trees or shrubs ; branches 

 2-stichous, sometimes spiuescent at apex ; leaves alternate stipulate ; 

 flowers ^ axillary in 1-2- sexual cymes or glomerules.^ (JU hot and 

 temp. regions.^°) 



138. Antidesma Burm." — Flowers dioecious, 3-8- or oftener 

 5-merous ; calyx lobes free at varied height, sometimes connate nearly 

 to apex ; prsefloration imbricated. Petals usually 0, rarely more or 

 less evolute {Antipetalum}^) Stamens usually the same in number as 

 calyx lobes, more rarely more numerous or fewer (2-4) j filaments 



1 Petals? sometimes the very minute subu- {Adelia) ; iv. 404, n. 2 {Phyllanthus).—^. 

 late grandvJiform female ones are to be seen in Spec. iii. 758 {Fhyllantkus) ; iv. 761 ; Unum. 

 MeineeMa whicli, as it seems, Aeg. scarcely Fl. Berol. 329 {Xylophylla). — Spebng. Syst. i. 

 denies to be constant, referring tlie genus to 940 ; iii. 902 (Drypetes). — Ait. Sort. Kew. i. 

 Securinega. 376 (Xylophylla). — Blanc. Fl. de Filip. 486 



2 Eeut. in M4m. Soc. Fhys. Qen&ve, x. 240, {Ciceaj. — Ledeb. Fl. Soss. iii. 683 {GeHera). — 



tab. ^Endi. Gen. n. 6865 ' (Coilmeroa). — H. Bl. Bijdr. 680 {Fluggea). — Sohum. et Thonn. 



Bn. Fuphorh. 668, t. 23, fig. 26-28. — Villanova Beskr. 416 {Fhyllanthm). — A. EiCH. Tent. Fl. 



PouKB. (ex CuTAHD. i^";. ilfa<i»-. 695). Abyss, ii. 256.— Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. 281 



3 M. Aug. Frodr. 447, sect. 1. (JPluggea). — Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 116, 116 

 ■• H. Bn. Miphorb. 693, sect. 3. {Neormpera). — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 80 ; ii. 

 5 W. Spec. iv. 767 {Flmgged). — A. Juss. Eu- 41; iii. 164; v. 346. 



phorl. 16; t. 2, fig. 6.— Endl. Qen. n. 6860. — " Thes. Zeyl. 11. — L. Qen. n. 1110 (part.).— 



H. Bn. Euphorb. 696, t. 26, fig. 39-47. — Bessera J. Gen. 443. — GtJERtn. Fruct. i. 188, t. 39. — 



Spkeng. Pugill. ii. 90. — Geblera FisCH. et. Met. Lamk. Diet. i. 206 ; Suppl. i. 402 ; HI. t. 812. — 



Ind. Sem. Sort. Petrop. (1835), 28. — Endi. Gen. Endl. Gen. n. 1892. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 269. — 



n. 59,&5,— MeineeMa H. Bn. Etiphorh. 586. Ttjl. in^««. So. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 182.— Schnizl. 



^ M. Akg. et F. Mtjell. Frodr. 488. Icon. fasc. 6. — H. Bn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. 



1 In Neoroepera the female flower often im- iv. 987 j Euphorb. 611 ; in Adansonia, xi. 95. — 



equaUv 3.grandular. M. Arg. Prodr.- Iii. — Baker, Fl. Mam-it. 305. 



' Very small, usually greenish or whitish. — Stilago Soheeb. in Z. Gen. ed. 8, n. 1381. — 



' A genus differing from Phyllanthm by Minutalia Fenzl. in Flora (1844), i. 312. — 



rudimentary gynseceum and male flowers. Bestram Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 354 (inol. : 



w Spec, about 15, of which 2, 3, are American. Cyathogyne M. Arg. Sieronyma M.ART.Zeptonema 



p ^^, Jam. 365 {Acidoton). — Pom. Diet. A. JvBS. Stilaginella Tvl. Theeaeoris A. Jvas.). 



iv. 463, n. i {Ehamnus) ; Suppl. i. 132, n. 4. " M. Arg. in Flora (1864), 640 ; Prodr. 246. 



