EUPHORBIAOE^. 249 



or subpeltate dilated (/S^^ewo^ywmw), sometimes reniform-discoid {Hemi- 

 cycUa), or more rarely filiform {Dodecastemon). Fruit globose, ovoid or 

 rarely [Astylis ^) angular, semifleshy, finally coriaceous or subcrusta- 

 ceous, indehiscent ; endocarpof cells I-5-osseous, coriaceous, or more 

 rarely {Astylis) subchartaceous.^ {All trop. regions.^) 



140. Putranjiva Wall.* — Flores dicecious apetalous ; male calyx 

 2-5-partite ; leaves slightly or sometimes closely imbricated {Palenga^) 

 or contorted. Stamens 2, 3, alternating -with petals, equal in number 

 to tbem ; filaments central, free or 1-2-adelphous ; anthers thick 

 subglobose or ellipsoidal, extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 3-6-par- 

 tite ; germen 2-3-loeular ; ovules in cell 2-nate descendent ; micro- 

 pyle extrorse rather thick obturated ; style afterwards divided into 

 2, 3, branches stigmatiferous at apex subreniform [Palenga) or wide 

 obversely S-angular-dUated. Fruit indehiscent subdrupaceous, finally 

 dry, by abortion 1-locular ; endocarp bony; embryo of solitary seed 

 copiously albuminous ; cotyledons subplane digitinerved at base.— - 

 Trees ; ^ leaves alternate petiolate stipulate penninerved reticulate- 

 venose ; flowers ' male axillary cymose or glomerate ; female longer 

 pedicellate solitary or few cymose. {East India.^) 



141. Longetia H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious ; sepals 6, 2-seriate 

 imbricated ; exterior shorter and thicker, sometimes dorsally subcar- 

 niate. Stamens co , or subdefinite (2-6) ; filaments inserted on rather 

 convex ^^ receptacle, central often flexuose or folded, and genufiexo- 

 produced beyond anther ; anthers extrorse ; cells finally discrete 

 above, rimose. Calyx of female flower nearly as in male ; exterior 



1 Wight, Icon. t. 1992. — Anaua Mia. Fl. Icomgr. t. 19. — Tui. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, 



Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 410. xv. 252.— H. Bn. in hull. Soc. Sot. de Fr. iv. 



^ Sect. 6 : 1. Dodecastemon (Hasbk.) ; 2. Cy- 991 ; Euphorb. 641. — Schnizl. Icomgr. fasc. 6. 



clostemon Bl.) ; 3. Stenogynmm (M. Arg.) ; 4. — M. Arg. Frodr. 443. — Pongolam Eheed. Hort. 



Ettdrypetes (H. Bn.) ; 5. Astylis (Wight) ; 6. Malah. vii. t. 59. — Nageia Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 



Semicyclia (Wight et Akn.). 766 (neo Gt^eetn.). 



3 Spec, alout 34. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 329 « Thw. in Hook. Journ. (1866), 270, t. 7, fig. 



z).— EiCH. Cida, 218.— Thw. Flmtm. c.—U. Bn. Ewphorb. 649. 



PI. Zeyl. 286 {Oyclostemon), 287 {Semicyclia). — ' Wood hard. 



Gbiseb. in Nachr.d. Keen. Chs. Tin. Q-oett. (1866), ? Greenish or rather purple. 



165 ; Veg. d. Karaih. 24 ; Fl. Brit. W.-lnd. 32. « Spec. 3 v. 4. Wight, Icon. 1. 1876.— Eoyle, 



— MiQ. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. p. ii. 360.— M. Akg. in III. Bimal. 347, t. 83 iw.- Thw. Enum. Fl. 



Flora (1864), 617, 631 {Oychstemon) ; in Linnaa, Zeyl. 287. 



xxxii. 81. — Benth. Fl. Austral, ti. 117 {Hemicy- ' In Adansonia, ii. 228 ; vi. 362, t. 9 ; xi. 100 . 



clia). — H.Bn. in Aclansonia,\i. 330 {Semicyelia). — M. Arg. Prodr. 244. 



* Tent. Fl. '^epal. 61. — ^Endl. Oen. n. 1894 ; '° Sometimes pilose at apex. 



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