Cudrania. | CIX. URTICER. 179 
receptacle. Nuts free but enclosed within the Durex and aas 
immersed in the receptacle, ra ericarp crustaceous. See 
lobular, the testa membranous; albumen very rian or none. ‘Coty: 
edons broad and thick, folded ia over the ias incurved radicle.—More or 
less climbing shrub, often armed with axilla 
aves alternate. Flower-heads axillary. ` 
he genus is probably limited to a single species, Sane from Eastern Africa 
over East India and the Archipelago id north ward to Jap: 
P X: t3 ^ 
C. javanensis, Zrecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 193, "i shrub 
0 
niveined adi aen but the veins pogi not prominent cam 
ing slightly tomentose.—Bureau in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 3 
the several synonyms addu dal; Maclura err Miq.; ume 
e ae ii. 88, t. 31; Morus calcar -galli, A. Cunn : 
and. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. robe P ; Rock- 
hampton, O Shaneey Stewart's Creek, Bowman ; Rockingham Bay, [A wd Mackay 
river, Sutherlan 
; . S. Wales. Cabramatta and Hunter’s river, Woolls ; Sydney woods, Paris Ex- 
| hibition 1855, [on n, 76; Kiama, Harvey. 
6. ANTIARIS, Leschen. 
of several bracts, in irregular rows, adnate ovary and closely 
- combined in an ovoid m ass, the tips alone free, without we E 
1 peus Style divided nearly to the base into 2 long filiform stigmatic 
. branches. Ovule e pendulous. Fruit consisting of the rini more or 
i succulent involucre and pericarp. Seed. pendulous, with a crus- 
testa and no albumen. Embryo straight, with M plano- 
convex cotyledons, and a sh superior radicle. —Trees or shru 
a milky juice. Leaves alternate, distichous. Stipules small, decidtious. 
Bisai axillary. 
The genus consists of few species natives, of tropical Asia and Africa and of the 
ands of the South Y TA 2 ncludes the celebrated Upas ime of the Archipelago. 
ustralian species, in as far as known, appears to be endem 
_ 1. A. macrophylla, R. Br. in Flind. Voy. ii. - t. 5. A tall shrub 
9r very small much branched tree, quite glabrou don es broadly 
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