20 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
have small globular succulent fruits, not yet ripe. They were gathered 
by Spruce in the Managuiry-gapo, at the mouth of the Solimoes, from 
shrub known to the natives by the name of Caimbé, and distributed 
with the n. 1635. Being — flower, they cannot be named or pro- 
perly described.—G. BEN 
Fig. 1. Fleshy receptacle, vertical section. 2. A male flower, cut open. 
PLate 1327. 
SCYPHOSYCE MANNIANA, Baill. 
Urricacea, Tribe ARTOCARPES. 
S. Manniana, Baill. Adans. xi. 293. 
Has. West tropical Africa, Sierra del ae G. Mann, n. 1727. 
Frutee humilis, caule simplici 6—9-pollicari nto brevi fusco 
vestito. Folia alterna, breviter petiolata, Sp ean a acuminata, 
infra medium angusti iora, membranacea v. ¢ 
obscure denticulata, pennivenia, glabra v. subtus ad venas parce scabro- 
puberula, 3-5 poll. longa. Stipule liber anguste.  Receptacula in 
axillis superioribus solitaria, pedicello petiolum breviter superante 
falta, tubuloso-cupulata, 14 lin. longa, basi florifera carnosula, parte 
superiore v. limbo cupulato membranacea. margine breviter 4—5-loba. 
Flores @ in fundo receptaculi pluri-seriati, apice exserti. Perianthium 
anguste tubulosum, obtuse minuteque 2—4-dentatum. Stamen 1, fila- 
mento recto; anthera oblonga, erecta, exserta. Ovarii ementam 0. 
Flos 2 in centro rece taculi unicus. Perianthium e segmentis 2 dis- 
nd faced uno alteruam S eiange to involvente, perianthio masculo 
seq, Ovarium superum, sessile; stylus subulatus, primum 
SL Path S denain fere lateralis, ramis stigmatosis exsertis subfilifor- 
mibus; ovulum apice oblique affixum, junio 
ovoideo-globosus, nitidus, receptaculi limbo deciduo denudatus , Teliquiis 
floram masculorum hieyge: 
' This interesting plant, allied in some respects to Bosquiea of Thouars, 
is described on the soliketor’s label as herbaceous, probably from its 
small stature; for the stem, though simple and often not even six 
inches high above the rooting base, saree certainly cauocal and 
woody in the lower portion.—G. Bent 
Fig. 1. Head of flowers, vertical section, para the fleshy base of the —- 
and several male flowers with the central female one, the two perianth segmen 
opened 0 se and partially eut away to show the ovary and style. 2a. Male en 
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