UBTICACEJE. 527 



III. BCEHMERIE.E. 



17. Bcehmeria Jacq. — Flowers monoacious or dioecious. Male 

 calyx 4-partite or 4-lobed (very rarely 3- or 5-partite) ; lobes leafy 

 ovate, subaouminate or mucronate under apex, valvate. Stamens as 

 many superposed ; inserted under clavate or subglobose rudiment of 

 gynseceum, glabrous or shortly lanate at base. Female calyx 

 tubular, compressed or ventricose, 2-4-dentate at contracted mouth. 

 Germen included, free or coherent with calyx, sessile or stipitate ; 

 style elongated filiform, on one side papillose-stigmatose ; ovule 

 suberect or ascending. Fruit included in marcescent calyx ; pericarp 

 crustaceous thin or nucamentaceous ; albumen of suberect seed more 

 or less copious ; cotyledons of rather fleshy embryo elliptical, usually 

 a little longer than conical radicle. — Small trees, shrubs, or under- 

 shrubs, usually downy ; leaves opposite or alternate, either equi- 

 lateral homomorphous, or more or less nnequilateral 3-morphous, 

 variously dentate (very rarely unequal-2-lobed), 3-ribbed petiolate at 

 base ; cystoliths minute punctiform ; stipules axillary, free or more 

 or less highly connate, commonly deciduous ; flowers glomerulate 

 shortly scarious-bracteate ; glomeruli axillary in spikes or branching 

 racemes {All Tropical and subtropical regions). Seep. 502. 



18. Pouzolsia Gaudich. 1 — -Flowers monoecious or more rarely 

 dioecious. Male calyx 4, 5-lobed or partite, rarely 3-partite ; lobes 

 ovate-acuminate, convex at back (neither mucronate, nor transversely 

 infract), valvate. Stamens 3-5. Rudiment of gynseceum obovate 

 or clavate-glabrous or lanate. Female calyx tubular, often ovate 

 ribbed ; mouth contracted, 2-4-dentate. Germen sessile included, 

 usually free, more rarely more or less adnate to calyx ; ovule erect 

 or ascending ; stigma filiform, articulate at base and usually falling 2 

 before ripeness of fruit, sometimes laterally villous. Achene clothed 

 with marcescent calyx (almost unchanged, or accrete with ribs or 



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1 Voy. Uran., Bot , 503. — Wedd., Monogr., ii. 211. — Margarocarpus Wedd., in Ann. Sc. 



389, t. 13, A; Prodr., 219. — Leptocnide Bl., Nat., ser. 4, i. 203, 205. 



3Ius. Lugd.-Bat., ii. 193. — Stachyocnide Bl., 2 Detained inside the now elongated neck of 



l^c. cit. — Leucococcus Liebm., in Keen,. Dansfc. calyx, and wrougly said to be persistent at top of 



Vid. Selsk. Skr., 5 Reekie. Nat. og Mat. Afd„ achene. 



