252 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



male in densely composite-ramified racemes ; female in a cusMon 

 shortly petiolate. {South Africa}) 



145 ? Daphniphyllum Bl.^ — Elowers dioecious apetalous ; calyx 

 3-10-partite, imbricated ; male deciduous. Stamens oo (5-20) ; fila- 

 ments free central, radiate ascendent from base (subumbellate) ; 

 antbers usually compressed, sometimes 4-agonal ; cells longitudinally 

 adnate, sublaterally rimose. Germen sometimes surrounded by 4-6- 

 glandular disk, 2-locular ; oyules 2-nate descendent ; micropyle ex- 

 trorse superior ; obturator rather thick ; style branches usually very 

 short ; disk-shaped-reniform, stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit more or 

 less fleshy or subbaccate ; endocarp sometimes chartaceous or fibrous ; 

 seeds 1,2, exarillate ; cotyledons of much shorter albuminous embryo 

 narrow subplane or semicylindrical shorter than radicle. — Trees or 

 shrubs; leaves alternate petiolate simple entire or dentate penni- 

 nerved reticulate-veined ; stipules small or inconspicuous ; flowers 

 axillary racemose; male pedicels articulate, deciduous.^ [Asia and 

 N. warm Oceania, trap. W. Africa}) 



146. Phyllanthus L.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; sepals 

 usually 5, 6, more rarely 4 {Cicca,^ Epistylium,^ Ikiococcus^ Scepasma ^), 

 or 7-9, free or more or less high connate, 2-3-seriate imbricate. 



* Spec. 1. S. globosa Vahi et Lame. loo. cit. Agyneia L. (not Vent.), Anisoneina A. Ju6B. 



— H. Bn. in Adansonia, iii. 163. — Croton Buem. Ardinghelia Commeks. Asterandra Kj.. Brad- 



Afr. 122, t. 45. — Jatropha globosaGrJES.TS. Fruet. hya Gjestn. Bnynia Foest. (part.), Galacoecits 



ii. 122, t. 109, fig. 3. — Toxicodendron capense KuBz, Chorimndra Wight, Gicca L. Bichalac- 



Thunb. loo. cit. Una Hakce, Biasperus L. Emllica GrXRTS. JEpi- 



2 Bijdr. 1163. — Bndl. Gen. n. 5755. — H. Bn. stylium Sw. Eriococeas Hassk. Genesiphylla 

 JEuphorb. 564, t. 21, fig. 25-27. — M. Arg. in Lhek. Glochidion Fobst. Glochidionopsis Bl. 

 BC. Prodr. xvi. sect. i. 1. — Qoughia Wight, Glochisandra Wight, Qynoon A. Juss. Semi- 

 Icon, t. 1877, 1878. — Ghyrandra Wall. Cat, n. cicca H. Bn. Margaritaria L. (part.), Meborea 

 8020 (nee Geis.). Aubl. M/marda Commees. Nymphanthus Lour, 



' A genus distinct from Euphorbiaceco on Orbicularia H. Bn. Peltandra Wight, Pleioste- 



account of sliort embryo and other characters,' mon Sond. Prosorus Dalz. Meidia Wight, MAo- 



with some constituting a separate order {.Daph- pium Schbeb. Scepasma Bl. Staurothylax Gbifp. 



niphyllaoees M. AeG.), formerly doubtfully re- Synostcmon F. Muell. Tricaryum Lottb. Wil- 



i.ViC6i.io Bhamnaeeee (Bl.). Uamia'K. Bn. Wurtzia H. Bn. Xylophylla L. 



^ Spec. 12, 13. Benth. Fl, Hongk, 316. — M. Zygospermum Tww, Bakeb, Fl. Manrit. 308). 



Abg. in Zinn/ea, xxxIt. 76; in Flora (1864), ^ L. Mantiss. i. 17. — J. Gen. 386. — Lamk. JW. 



636. — Kttrz, in Teysm. PL Nov. Sort. Bog. 37. t. 757. — A. Juss. Fuphorb. 20, t. 4.— Jacq. 



— MiQ. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 129. Sort. Schcenbr. t. 294. — Ehdl. Gen. n. 6851. — 



» Gen. n. 1060.— J. Gen, 386.— Lamk. III. t. H. Bn. Fuphorb. 617, t. 24, fig. 28-33. 



766, 757.— PoiB. Bict. v. 295 ; Suppl. iv. 401. 7 Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1095, t. 22.— A. Juss, 



— Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 1101.— A. Juss. Fuphorb. Fuphorb. 17, t. 3, fig. 8. — Endl. Gen. n. 6858. 



21, t. 6, fig. 16.— Endl. Qen. n. 5847.— H. Bn. — H. Bn. Fuphorb. 646. 



Fuphorb. 621, t. 22, fig. 16-36 ; 23, fig. 1-21 ; 8 Habsk. Cat. Sort. Bog. 242. 



24, fig. 1-9, 15-33; 26, fig. 10-15, 22-24; 27, » Bl. Bi/jdr. 682.— H. Bn. Fuphorb. 648, t. 



fig. 6, 6, 9-17.— M. Abg. Prodr. 274 (incl. ; 26, fig. 10-16. 



