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elevatus. Ovarium 7-10-loculare ; stigmata jn medio disco sessilia, parum distincta. Fructus 
globosus, exoearpio carnoso; pyrens plano-eompresss. —Semen...—Arbores inermes 
glabre v. partea juniores tomentosm. Folia pinnata, foliolis integerrimis. Stipul» . 
Umbellule in. paniculam terrinalem dispositee. Braetec inconspicus. Pedicelli cum 
flore continui. 
'. Species 2, altera. ins. Sandvicensium ineola, a nobis non vim, Walp. Ann. v. 82; &lera in Nova 
: Guinea. et. ins. freti Sundaici crescens.  AMig. im Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 4.— Genus à Plerandra 
potius foliis quam floribus diversum. Stamina in speeie Sandwicensi.ex &. Gray, numero petalo- 
rum quadrupla, l-seriata, in 7. paucidentaia ex Miquelio 20-24, in fore a nobis examinato ultra 
40, 3-4 seriata invenimus, 
28. "Tupidanthus, Hook. f. et Thoms. i in Bot. Mag. t. 4908. — Calycis margo obsoletüg. 
' Pelala in calyptram coriaceo-carnosam arcte connata, suturis inconspieuie. Siamina 20, 
irregulariter 2-oo.seriata, filamentis crassiuscule filiformibus ; antheris ovato-oblongs. 
Discus convexus. Ovarii loculi permulti; stigmata. sessilia radíantia, circa. medium disci 
in lineam irregulariter sinnosam arcte approximata at distincta. Fructus coriaceo-carno- 
sus, eubglobosus ; pyrent cartilagirtog v. crustacec. plano-compressse. Semen . . .— Frutex 
arboreus, glaber, junior erectus, demum altissime scandens. Folia ampla, digitatim 
. composita, foliolis coriaceis integerrimis. Siipulz intr& petiolum in laminam brevem con- 
natm. Umbellule in pauiculam brevem v. umbellam compositam dispositee. Bractese 0, 
Pedicelli cum flore continui, peduneulique crassi. Flores et fructus in Ordine magni. 
Species 1, in sylvis Khasis orescens.— Genus Plerandre a(lne, in hac tamen. sutura petalorum 
semper conspicua est, et petaía etjam in P, Piokeringii et P. Grayi, basi sepe solvuntur, dum in 
Tupntantho omnia in calyptram integram arcte conferrumInata sunt. Stigmatum series in icone 
eitata falso depicta est, nunquam lineam simplicem eentralem- formant ; in quoque flore vltra 90 
enumeravimus, 
Onpo LXXXIIT. CORNACEZE. 
renta Endl. Gen. Pl. 798 ;. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 782. AIANGIEA, Endl. 1. c. 1184; Lindl,1.c. 
719. GamnvAcEX, Endl.|.c. 288) Lindl.l.c. 295. "NxssAcER, Endl. 1. c. 328. 
- Fares unisexuales v. hermapbroditi, regulares. Calycis tubus ovario adnatus ; limbus 
0, v. eupularis truncatus 4-5-dentatus v. lobaius, persistens, sestivationo upertus v. valvatus. 
Petala 0 v. 4-5, rarius co, basi disci epigyni insert imbricata v. valvata. Sfamina cum 
petalis inserta, et iis isomera, rarius numero 2- v. 4-pla; (ilamenta brevia v. elongata, fili- 
formis subulata v. complanata.. Anthere breves v. elongatis, basi v. dorso affix:e, loculis 
conneetivo adnatis v. fere liberis, antice v. lateraliter dehiscentes. Discus epigynus v 
centro fl.,j, sepius pulvinaris, angulatus crenatus v. lobatus, rarius annularis v. breviter 
tubulosus. Ovarium inferum, 1-4-loculare. Stylus brevis v. elongatus ; stigma mune 
capitatum truncatum v. lobatum nunc 2-3-(iduim, r&mis intus stigmatosis recurvis. Ovula 
in loculis solitaria, rarissime 2, &b apicé loculi pendula, anairopa, raphe laterali y. dorsali ; 
integumenta cum nucleo conferruminata. Fructus ssmpissime drupaceus, putamine 1-4- 
loculari, rarius pyrenis 2 0s5eis v. erustaceis. — Semina oblonga. pendula; testa membrana- 
' pea v. tenuiter coriacea ; "raphe tenuis; funiculus sepe crassiuseulus, interdum elongatus; 
albumen ropiosum, earnosum. Embryo i in axi slbuminis, parvus v. amplus, cylindriens v. 
sepius cum albumine fere x»quilatus; cotyledones swpius tenuiter foliacem ; radicula teres. 
Frutices v. arbores, glabre v. gericeo- pilos, siccitate ape fuscescentes v. nigricantes; 
Folia opposita v. alterna, sepissime petiolata, coriaoes, rarius membranacea, integerrima v. 
in paucis. lobata angulata v. serrata, non raro basi inzqualia. Stipule 0. Flores parvi v. 
inter minores, in cymas, paniculasve terminales v. axillares dispositi, interdum fusciculati - 
pemiacn, v. capitali et involuerati. 
. Bpecies ad 75, per orbem terrarum sparss, in regionibus temperatis hemisphari borealis maxima 
ME vigentes. . 
Ordo rodatuat arcte affinis, nee differt nisi petalis liberis v; 0; inler Polypetàlas Araliaceis 
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