Pseudolmedia 



MORACE^ 



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receptacle within the involucre, intermixed with narrowly stalked 

 spathulate scales. Female flower : perianth tubular with a small 

 toothed opening at the apex. Ovary enclosed, adnate at the 

 base on one side ; style with two stigmatose exserted branches ; 

 ovule pendulous. Fruit ovoid, enclosed by the increased some- 



Fig. 13 



A, Male shoot. 



B, Male inflorescence with involucre 



C, Stamen. 



Pseudolmedia spuria Griseb. 



D, Spathulate scale from the receptacle. 



E, Female shoot. 



F, Female inflorescence. 



what fleshy perianth. Pericarp crustaceous. Cotyledons thick, 

 fleshy, very unequal. 



Species 5, in the West Indies, Central America and on the 

 Andes. 



P. spuria Griseh. FL Br. W. Lid. 152 (1859). P. havanensis 

 Tree, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 130, t. 5,/. 149-154; Pittier 

 in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. xiii. 432. Arbor foliis etc. Browne 

 Hist. Jam. 369. Brosimum spurium Sw. Prodr. 12 (1788), FJ. 

 Ind. Ore. 20 ct Ic. ined. t. 27. (Fig. 13.) 



Bastard Breadnut, ^lilkwo.od. 



Wright ! Browns Town, Prior ! Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama. 



