EUPHORBlACEm. 245 



131. Richeria Yahl.^— Flowers dicecious apetalous; sepals 3-5, 

 imbricate. Stamens same in number opposite inserted round rudi- 

 mentary gyngeceum ; filaments finally long exserted and twisted ; 

 anthers oblong introrse (Guarania^), or extrorse {Podocalyx^)^ longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Glands 5, alternating with stamens surrounding 

 base of rudimentary gynseceum. Disk of female fiowers usually 

 urceolate. Germen 3-locular ; ovules 2-nate ; obturator usually 

 thick ; style branches 3, short, rather wide oaniculate within, revo- 

 lute at margin, at apex sub-2-lobed. Capsule 3-coccous ; cocci solute 

 from columella 3 -winged above ; valves dehiscing from base ; seeds 

 albuminous. — Trees ; leaves alternate simple penninerved, sometimes 

 denticulate above petiolate 2-stipulate ; male flowers * in axillary 

 glomeruliferous spikes or racemes ; female at base of branches 

 spicate. {South America, Antilles.^} 



132 ? Dissiliaria F. Mxjell.^ — Flowers dioecious (?) ; male oo- 

 androus (?). Female calyx 6-8-phyllous ; folioles 2-seriate im- 

 bricated 5 the interior larger. Germen surrounded by cupular disk 

 sometimes denticulate at base ; cells 3, 4, opposite exterior sepals; 

 ovules ia each 2 ; obturator thick ; style branches 3, entire or sub- 

 entire recurved, iawardly stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-4-coccous; 

 exocarp thick solubile ; cocci 1-2-spermous ; seeds exarillate albu- 

 minous. Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or more rarely 3-nate, 

 entire or crenulate, penninerved reticulate; female flowers in 

 terminal simple or cymiferous racemes.'' {Australia.^) 



133. Hymenocardia Endl.' — Flowers dioecious apetalous (nearly 

 of Antidesma or Aporosa) ; calyx 5- or more rarely 6-7 -dentate, 

 valvate or subimbricate. Stamens same in number inserted round 

 base of entire rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers ovoid introrse ; cells 

 longitudinally adnate, longitudinally rimose. Germen compressed, 

 2-locular ; cells 2 -ovulate ; style branches 2, subfree elongated long 



* Eclog. Amer. i. 30, t. 4. — A. Svss.Euphorb. (Guarania); vi. 16. 



16. Bndl. Gen. n. 5861. — H. Bn. Euphorb. ' Ex H. Bn. in ^rfansom'a, vii. 356, 1. 1. 



597. ' Gfr. Chorioeras (p. 240, n. 124.) 



2 H. Bn. Euphofd. 598. » Spec. 2, 3. H. Bn. loc. cit. 359.— Benth. 



3 Kl. in EHvhs. Arch. (1841), vii. 202 ; in Fl. Austral, vi. 90. 



Sooh, Land. Journ. ii. 52. — H. Bn. Slwphorb. ' Gen. n. 1899. — Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. B&\ 



59?. 3, XV. 256.— H. Bn. in £ull. Soc. Sot. de Fr. 



* Small crowded. iv. 994 ; Euphorb. 599, t. 27, fig. 24, 25.^M. 

 6 Spec. 2, 3. W. Spec. iv. 1122.— EceM. et Akq. in Flora (1864), S18; Frodr. 476.— 



ScH. S^st. V. 271. — P(EM'. et Endl. Nov. Gen. SamaropyxU Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 464, 



et Spec. iii. 2i, t. 226 {Amanoa).—Ga.igEB. Fl. 621. 

 £rit. W.-Ind. 31. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 347 



