I'll lie U i 



ST1LAGIN \« 1.1. 





Obdbb I. XXXIII. BTILAGIN I 



I n Martiiu HorL Rey. M 



it. ed. '.*. *'■", ,i .'. icvi. ; ileitru i , p 



Diagnosis. Urticai 1. . ith 2~lobed antltera splitting 



ovules, a straight aUmminov 



frees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, Bimple, coriaceous, undivided or toothed, 

 pu] ■ i w in, deciduous. Flowers minute, in axillary scaly Bpikes. Flo 

 Calyx or 5-parted. Corolla 0. J, Stamens 2, <>r 



more, arising from ;i tumid receptacle ; filaments capil- 

 lar) ; anthers innate, usually 2-lobed, with a fleshy con- 

 nective and vertical cells opening transversely. , Ovary 

 , I- 2-celled, often with a conspicuous disk; ovules 

 anatropal, suspended in pairs; Btigma I- 



toothed. Fruit drupaceous. Seed auspended, sometimes 

 perforated by processes of the putamen ; embryo green, 

 with foliaceous cotyledons, lying in the midst of copious 

 fleshy albumen ; radicle short, superior. 



An obscure Order, whose limits are not ascertained. 

 Judging from the genera Stilago and Antidesma,it isverj 

 near Nettleworts, from which it is chiefly distinguished bj 

 a great cushion-shaped disk, unelastic filaments, and 

 .null, ra Bplit into 2 lobes, which burst transversely ;n tlie 

 apex. Bui Falconeria is Baid to have u 2-celled fruit, 

 and therefore would approach verj neai'ly to the Euphor- 

 bia! Alliance. On the other band, Pyrenacantha, referred 

 hither bj EIndhcher, because of its two collateral pendu- 

 lous ovules, is ;i milking plant, and wants the peculiar 

 anthers of Antidesmads ; but its pierced albumen and 

 embryo are so similar to those of Phytocn ne (or Gyno- 

 cephalium), that it had better perhaps be referred to the Artocarpads 

 Antidesmas have much the inflorescence of East Indian Mastworts. 

 res ol the Bast Indies and Madagascar. 



Tin Be plants appear to I"- destitute oi uoxious qualities. Thi ir succulent currant 

 drupes an i aten by the natives of the countries "lure they grow : those ol Ant 

 pubi bci iia an mi ationed bj Roxburgh, who also states that the shining de< p n d fruit ul 

 Stilago Bunius is sub-acid and palatable. The leaves ut that plant are acid and diapho- 

 retic ; and, when young, are boiled with potherbs and givcu in India in «»-> 

 Byphilia The leaves ol Antidesma alexiteria are among the imaginary roi 

 serpent I 



i,i M i; \ 



i . . i \\i\ 



The mali 



Antidosma, /. 



o, / 



- 



N 



Position. — Urticai 



i i ■ i \\ i\ Stilago lanceolata i r flower : 2 I 

 fruitan 1 seed : t. n perpendicular section ol 



