CXVII. EUPHORBIACE^. 1431 



22. BISCHOFIA, Blume. 

 (After M. Bischof). 

 Male flower : Sepals 5, concave, obtuse, imbricate, concealing the anthers. 

 Disk none. Stamens 5, filaments short ; anthers large, cells parallel. Pistillode- 

 short, broad. Female flower : Sepals ovate, caducous. Staminodes 5, small,. 

 or none. Ovary exserted, 3 to 4-celled ; styles long, linear, stout, entire ; ovules 

 2 in each cell. Fruit globose, fleshy, with 8 to 4 cells lined with a parchment- 

 like 2-valved endocarp. Seeds turgidly oblong, testa fibro-crustaceous, albumen 

 fleshy; cotyledons broad flat, radicle straight elongate. — A glabrous tree. 

 Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets often crenate. Flowers in axillary or 

 lateral paniculate racemes, minute, dioecious, apetalous : males scattered or 

 clustered, females longer, pedicellate. 



1. B. javanica (of Java), Blume; Hook. Fl. of Brit. Incl. v. 345. A 

 round-headed, more or less deciduous glabrous tree, 30 to 40ft. high. Bark 

 smooth. Leaves very variable ; petiole 1 to 6in. long; leaflets 3 to 5in., from 

 ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, repand-toothed, petiolules 6 to 9 lines.. 

 Panicles very slender, flowers green. Male minute on short slender pedicels. 

 Female 2 lines diameter, on stout pedicels. Fruit fleshy, on long thickened 

 pedicels, smooth, size of a pea, blue-black. Seeds smooth, shining, testa splitting- 

 longitudinally, dark-brown. — B. trifoliata , Hook. Ic. PI. t. 844 ; Micnebts: 

 Boeperianus, Wight. Ic. t. 1880. 



Hab.: Bockingham Bay. 



23. APOROSA, Blume. 



Flowers minute, dioecious, rarely monoecious, apetalous ; males most minute in 

 axillary catkin-like spikes ; female sessile or shortly pedicellate in very short, 

 bracteate spikes. Male flower : Sepals 4 (3 to 6), membranous, imbricate. 

 Stamens 1 to 5 in the centre of the flower, filaments capillary ; anthers didymous,. 

 Pistillode minute or none. Female flower : Sepals of the males but larger. 

 Ov.ary 2 (rarely 3) celled ; stigma small, plumose, short, spreading or recurved^ 

 simple or 2 to 4-cleft, rarely elongate and 2-partite ; ovules 2 in each celL 

 Fruit globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, bursting irregularly, or partially 2 to 4 valved 

 from the base upwards, epicarp thin or thick and spongy or fleshy, endocarp thin^ 

 often separable ; cells glabrous or hairy within, especially on the septum. Seeds 

 oblong or suborbicular, usually plano-convex, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad^ 

 flat. — Tree. Leaves alternate, quite entire, rarely sinuate-toothed, penninerved. 



1. A., australiana (Australian), F. v. M. Syst. Cens. PI. (name only). 



I have never seen specimens of this plant, and so far as known F. v. Mueller never published a. 

 description or placed specimens in the Nat. Herb. Melbourne. 



24. ANTIDESMA, Linn. 



(From aiiti, like, and desmos, bond ; the bark used in rope making.) 



Flowers dioecious, the males in dense or interrupted spikes or catkins, the- 

 females in spikes or racemes. Male flower very small : Perianth of 3 to 5 seg- 

 ments, slightly imbricate tn the bud. Stamens 2 to 5, opposite the perianth- 

 segments, round a central rudimentary ovary. Anthers 2-celled, the cells 

 separated by and terminating the thick more or less 2-lobed connective. Glands 

 alternating with the stamens and often concrete with the rudiment of the ovary 

 in a depressed lobed mass. Female flower : Perianth of the male. Glands more 

 distinct and usually flattened. Ovary 1-celled or rarely 2-celled (in the very 

 young state 8-celled ?) with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 3, very short, usually 

 2-lobed. Fruit a small more or less oblique drupe. Seed usually 1 only, without 



