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CLXXXV. MONIMIACE^. 



7. Cynocrambt. 

 Young flower with 

 bractedeB (mag.). 



T. Cynoci-ambt. 



Full-grown flower 



(mag.). 



T. Cynocrambe. 



Ripe flower 



(mag.). ' 



T. Cynocrambe. 

 Base of stipulate leaf. 



T. Cynocrambe. 



Fruit, entire and with vertical and transverse 

 sections (mag.). 



T. Cynocrambe. 

 Seed stripped of its 

 integuments (mag.). 



T. Cynocrambe. 

 Embryo 

 (mag.). 



anterior and 2 lateral bracteoles. PERIANTH excentric, tubular, sub-clavate, 

 3-lobulate, traversed by the style, becoming lateral by the enlargement of the ovary. 

 OVAET 1 -celled ; style lateral ; stigma clavate, undivided ; ovule solitary, basilar, 

 campylotropous. FRUIT a drupe. SEED horseshoe-shaped ; testa membranous. 

 EMBRYO hooked, in the axis of a sub-cartilaginous albumen j cotyledons linear, in- 

 cumbent ; radicle cylindric, inferior. 



ONLY GENUS. 

 Thelygonum. 



This genus approaches Urticcts and Cannabinea; in diclinism, its single perianth, 1-celled 1-ovuled 

 ovary, basilar ovule, chalaza corresponding to the hiluin, fleshy albumen, and stipulate leaves; but in 

 Urticece the ovary is free and the fruit an achene. It also recalls the apetalous Cyclospermea, and especially 

 the Tetrayoniea, the ovary of which is inferior; but it differs in the number of stamens, linear anthers, 

 basilar ovule, not farinaceous albumen, &c. 



Thelygonum is a plant of the Mediterranean region ; it is slightly acrid and purgative, and might be 

 used as an inferior potherb. 



CLXXXV. MONIMIACE^E. 



(URTICARUM genera, Jussieu. MONIMIE.E ET ATHEROSPERME.E, Br. MONIMIACE.E, 



Endl., Tulasne.) 



FLOWERS diclinous, apetalous. SEPALS 4 or more, imbricate. STAMENS oo , in- 

 serted on an open or urceolate receptacular cupule. CARPELS oo , I-celled, 1-ovuled, 

 sunk in the cupule, or seated on it ; OVULE anatropous. FRUIT a drupe or nut. SEED 



