74 ICONEK PLANT ARUM, 



duro. Semina oblonga, crassa, l^-poU. longa, medio dorso subcarinata, 

 facie interiore sub apice hilo parvo affixa, testa coriaceo-crustacea 

 nitida. Albumen praeter raembranam papyraceam embryonem incla- 

 dentem. 0. Cotyledones magnee, sequales, crasso-carnosae, radicula 

 minima inter eas retracta. 



Fig. 1. Male fio-vrer with the sepals removed, sho\s4ng the stamens and bud. 2. 

 Female bud. 3. Female flower with one of the sepals turned down, showing the 

 ovary. 4. Ovary, transverse feection. 5. Styles seen from above. 6. Two-valved 

 coccus after dehiscence having expelled the seed. 7. Seed, transverse section. 8. 

 Cotyledon {about one-third nahiral size). 



Blume describes the seeds as ' subpulposo-arillata.' Maingay in his notes says, 

 with a query, * Arillus none?* The dried seeds show no arillus, but in many 

 Euphorbiacese, what is called a pulpy arillus is often the pulpy external layer of the 

 testa, which disappears when dry. In Maingay's specimens, I find a whitish cellular 

 substance lining the testa outside the membrane which encloses the embryo. — 

 G. Bentham. 



Plate 1295. 



PROCRIS LiEVIGATA, Blume 



Ubticace^, Tribe Urtice^. 



P. Iffivigata, Blume, Bijdr, 508, Wedd, in DC, Prod, xvl L 192, 



foliis obliqne oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis snperne pancidentatis, 

 floribus mascnlis capitulisque foemineis ad nodes ssepius defoliates 

 fasciculatis, periantbio foemineo minimo cyathiformi subinteo'errimo, 



Hab. Widely spread over Tropical Africa and in East India, from 

 Ceylon and the Peninsula to Eastern Bengal and Sikkim, chiefly on 

 the trunks of trees. 



Gaules epiphytici, carnosuli, l-|.pedales, simplices v. parce romosi. 

 Folia disticha, 3-6-pollicaria, basi in petiolum brevem contracta, mem- 

 branacea v. crassiuscula, oblique pennivenia, addito sa)pe folio minimo 

 Bubopposito. Flores dioici, pedicelli masculi ad nodos fasciculati, 

 ■nniflori, 1-2 lin. longi. Feriantldum alte 5-fidum. Stamina primum 

 perianthio breviora, antberis supra filamenta inflexis, demum elastice 

 porrecta perianthio longiora. Gopitula foeminea l|-2.1in. diametro, 

 pedunculis fascJculatis vix linea longioribus, receptaculo carnosulo. 

 TeriantJiium minimum vix prominulum. Achcenia omnino exserta, 

 ovata, obtusa y. acutiuscula, vix semilineam longa. 



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Fig. 1. Male perianth opened, showing the stamens with the filaments bent 



