PIPERACEJ1. 



475 



III. CHLORANTHUS SERIES. 



CMorcmthus' (figs. 516-519) lias small flowers axillary to opposite 

 bracts on the rachis of a spike. Each has a one-celled ovary, sur- 

 mounted by a short style, more or less irregularly dilated at its 



Chloranthus inconspicuns. 



Fro. 516. 

 Flowering branch. 



Fig. 517. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 518. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



stigmatiferous apex. Inside is inserted on the wall of the 

 ovary, usually close to its apex, 2 a single descending orthotrop- 

 ous ovule, with its micropyle inferior. 3 This ovary must be 



1 Sw., in Phil. Trans., lxxvii. 354 ; Prodr. Fl. 

 Ind. Occ, 84.— J., Gen., 423.— R. Be., in Bot. 

 Mag., fc. 2190. — Lindl,, Teg. Kingd., 519, fig. 

 355. — Endl., Gen., n. 1819. — Payee, Organog., 

 422, t. 90. — C. J. i>e Coedem., in Adansonia, 

 iii. 295. — H. A. de Solms, in DC. Prodr., xvi. 

 sect. i. 473.— Lem. & Dcne., Tr. Gen., 504. — 

 Schnizl., Iconogr., t. 80. — H. Bn., in Adan- 

 sonia, x. 134. — Nigrina Thitnb., Nov. Gen., 58; 

 Fh Jap., 65 ; in Act. Upsal., vii. 142. — Lamk., 



III., 294.— Poie., Dict.,\v. 489.— Creodus Lor/E., 

 Fl. Cochinch., 112. — Peperidia Reichb., Consp., 

 212. — Cri/phcea Hamilt., in Brewst. Fdinb. 

 Journ. So. (1825), 11. — Stropha Noeonh., mss. 



2 Sometimes lower down. We have seen it 

 occasionally inserted a little above the middle of 

 the posterior wall, and in that case nearly hori- 

 zental. (See Adansonia, x. 141.) 



3 It has two coats. 



