320 MENISPERMACE. 
PHYTOCRENE. 
1, Phytocrene stylocarpa, Gr. Pl. CCCCLXXXIX. 
Fructus aggregatus interdum capitis humanifere magnitu- 
dine, breve pedunculatus et quasi sessilis in ramo. 
Drupez plurime oblong, subparallelogrammice sulcato- 
angulate, szepius compresse, 2} unc. long. 1-1} lat. apice 
depresso, stylum proficiente basi cincta et spe cuspidata, 
perigonio albido membranaceo ad medium 4-partito. 
Superficies, pilis deflexis acutissimis rigidis e basi oblonga 
pilos alios plures multo minores gerente ortum ducentibus et 
terminantibus. Substantia, dimidium superius solidum, 
firmum, fibris percursum inferius, exterior pars tenue firma, 
intus carnosa fibrosa, putamini adherens. 
Putamen quasi pendulum, ovatum vel lanceolatum, sepius 
compressum, pulpa gelatinosa vestitum basi excepto qua 
abrasum, osseum, crassum, fragile, scrobiculatum, utrinque 
ad apicem emarginatum, apicis quasi Aili bi-ocellatum, sepe 
hilum versus utrinque lineis 2 parum prominulis cito evanidis 
notatum, brunneum, intus albido-ochroleucum et papillis 
subhemisphericis rugosum. 
Semen solitarium (nondum licuit ovulum alterum dete- 
gere) pendulum conforme. Tegumentum tenuissimum mem- 
branaceum, raphe 1} completa lineata, sepe e maxima parte 
albumine obtecta. 
Albumen e lobulis innumeris conflatum, carnoso-oleosum 
ceseinum, odoris ingrate, lutescens. Embryonis cotyledones 
sigmoideo duplo flexz, foliacez, ochroleuce. Radicula 
brevis, magna, supera. 
he putamen might easily be taken for the seed, for the 
pulp, except at the base, separates apparently, evenly and 
smoothly; but the raphe on the membrance covering the te 
gument shews the real nature, setting aside observations O0? 
the young fruits. i 
Of two specimens one had the drupes more elongated à" 
