DRYPETES 
(Vahl.) 
Natural Order , Euphorbiace^: ? (Juss.) Linncean Classifi- 
cation , Dl(ECIA, TeTRANDRIA to OcTANDRIA. 
Dioecious. — Male with the calyx 4 to 6 leaved, and unequal. 
Corolla none. Stamina 4 to 8, exserted. Disk central, 
villous. — Female, with the flower as in the male. Ovary 
free, subovate, villous, 2-celled, or by abortion 1-celled; ovules 
2 in each cell, pendulous. Styles 2, or by abortion 1, short; 
stigmas capitate, villous. Drupe subovate, villous, dry, 1- 
celled, 1-seeded, rarely 2-celled, 2-seeded. Seed filling up 
the cell of the fruit; albumen large and fleshy; embryo large, 
inverted, straight; cotyledones foliaceous. 
Trees of the tropical parts of America with alternate, nearly 
exstipulate leaves, and axillary clusters of small herbaceous 
flowers. 
SMALL FLOWERED DRYPETES. 
DRYPETES crocea, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 
integerrimis nitidis , flore masculo 4-6-andro, femineo 
distylo . 
Drypetes crocea, foliis oblongis , integerrimis , nitidis , flore 
masculo 4-5-andro, femineo distylo . Poiteau, Annales du 
Museum Hist. Nat. (3d series,) vol. 1. p. 159. tab. 8. 
Schjeffera lateriflora, floribus lateralibus apetalis. 
Swartz, Flor. Ind. Occident., vol. 1 . p. 329. 
This plant, at Key West, in East Florida, (according 
