630 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



valvate. Stamens 4. Rudiment of gynawenm obovoid, glabrous 

 except at sparingly hairy base. -Female calyx tubular-ventncose ; 

 mouth contracted, 2-4- unequal-dentate. Germen included, free 

 from or scarcely adhering to calyx, sessile oblong ; ovule suberect ; 

 stigma filiform much incurved; convexity hairy or subplumose. 

 Achene obovoid or ellipsoid, sometimes lenticular, clothed with 

 accrete, baccate or rather fleshy, compressed or angulate calyx; 

 pericarp crustaceous, hence often thickened under apex. Seed sub- 

 erect ; albumen not scarce; cotyledons of rather fleshy embryo 

 elliptical, a little longer than radicle.— Small trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate, usually inequilateral and heteromorphous, den- 

 tate-serrate ; cystoliths punctiform ; stipules free axillaiy-lateral, 

 deciduous; flowers glomerate; glomeruli axillary, 1 -sexual or more 

 rarely androgynous capituliform ; females very dense, finally 

 amplexicaul; bracts go, scarious 1 {Oceania, Malaysia"). 



24. Touchardia Gaudich. 3 — Flowers dioecious. Male calyx 

 nearly of Cypholophus, 5-merous ; rudiment of gynseceum shortly 

 clavate glabrous. Female calyx subcampanulate, 4-lobed ; lobes 

 more or less unequal, angulate, sometimes cucullate, rather fleshy. 

 Germen subequal to calyx, ovoid straight ; ovule oblique more or 

 less inflexed on ascending funicle ; stigma spathulate, on one face 

 and edges rather long-papillose. Achene ovoid ventricose smooth, 

 for a long time clothed with accrete fleshy calyx. — A shrub ; leaves 

 alternate crenate, 3-ribbed ; cystoliths punctiform ; stipules axillary 

 broad entire, subpersistent ; flowers crowded pedicellate in capitula 

 terminating an axillary simple forked or 2-chotomously branching 

 peduncle ; bracts linear 4 {Sandwich Islands 5 ). 



25. Neraudia Gaudich. 6 — Flowers dioecious. Male calyx 4- 

 partite ; segments ovate-acute rather fleshy, valvate. Stamens 4. 

 Rudiment of gynaeceum narrowly conical densely lanate. Female 



1 A genus with aspect of Bahmeria, also 3 Toy. Bon., Bot„ t. 94. — Wedd., Monogr., 

 allied by its inflorescence to Touchardia, but 441, t. 13, C ; Prodr., 235 13 . 



owing to its distinct stigma, and its fructiferous 4 A genus by its inflorescence strongly allied 



baccate calyx, placed among Sarcochlamydece. to Ci/pholophvs, by its female calyx (rather 



2 Spec. 9. Seem., Fl. Vit, 242, t. 62 (Bath. young) to Sarcoehlamys. 



meria). — Be, Hius. Lugd.-Bat., 207 (Boehmeria). 5 b'pec. 1. T. latifolia Gaudich., loc. cit. 



— Miq., Fl. hid. Bat., i. p. ii. 209, 251 (Bah- 6 Voy. JJran., But., 500, t. 117.— Wedd. 



meria), 262. Monogr., 437, t. 12, A ; Prodr., 235 lfi . 



