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calyx tubular- ventricose, tapering at apex ; mouth contracted sub-4- 

 dentate. Germen included sessile ovoid ; ovale erect ; funicle short ; 

 stigma elongated-filiform, articulate at glabrous base, deciduous, in 

 other parts villous. Achene depressed-conical, often lobulate at 

 base, included in accrete fleshy globuliform calyx; embryo...? — 

 Shrubs; "juice milky;" leaves petiolate alternate equilateral entire, 

 3-ribbed ; cystoliths punctiform ; stipules axillary small ; flowers in 

 axillary, usually few-flowered glomeruli 1 {Sandwich Islands 2 ). 



26. Villebrunea Gaudich. 5 — Flowers dioecious. Male calyx 4- 

 partite ; segments ovate-acute, rather hispid outside, valvate. 

 Stamens 4. Rudiment of gynaeceum obovate-clavate, lanate at base. 

 Female calyx ventricose-tubular ; limb very small, 4-5-dentate. 

 Germen adnate to calyx ; ovule erect ; funicle short ; stigma sub- 

 discoid subpeltate, long papillose-ciliate at edge. Achene subnuca- 

 mentaceous, clothed outside by a fleshy ventricose stratum, obsoletely 

 angulate (formed of adnate accrete calyx and simulating sarcocarp). 

 Seed erect ; albumen not scanty ; cotyledons of rather fleshy embryo 

 elliptical, subequal to radicle. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves alter- 

 nate, entire or crenulate, penniveined or 3-ribbed, glabrous or 

 pubescent ; stipules connate to 1, axillary, 2-fid ; flowers in capitula 

 or dense glomeruli, terminating simple, fasciculate, forked or 2- 

 chotomous peduncles ; bracts numerous involucrant coalite around 

 female flower to finally much accrescent fleshy cupuie {India, 

 Malaysia, Oceania*). 



27. Debregeasia Gaudich. 5 — Flowers monoecious or dioecious. 

 Calyx 3- or more often 4-partite ; segments convex behind, shortly 

 acuminate, valvate. Stamens 3, 4. Rudiment of gynpsceum ellips- 

 oid apiculate, lanate at base. Female calyx ventricose-tubular; 



1 A genus especially distinguished from pre- Abh. d. Math.-Phys. Kl. Akad. fViss., iv. 3 



ceding genus by its early deciduous stigma. (part.). 



'■ Spec. 2. Hook. & Abn., Voy. Beech., Bot. 4 tpec. 6-8. Bl., Bijdr., 506 ( Urtica) ; 



96 (Buehmeria). — Meyen, Beis., ii. 124. — Mus. Imgd.-Bat., ii. 166. — Benth., FL Hung- 



Gaudich., Voy. Bon., Bot., t. 133. kong., 332.— Wedd., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, i. 



3 Voy. Bon., Bot., t. 91, 92. — Wedd., Mon- 195. — Hassk., Hort. Bog., 79 (Boehmeria). 



ogr., 451, t. 15, C ; Prodr., 235 m . — Oreocnide 3 Voy. Bon., Bot., t. 90. — Wedu., Monogr., 



Miq„ PI. Jungh., i. 39 ; Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. ii. 459, 1. 14, 15, A ; Prodr., 235 23 .— Sieb. & Zucc., 



269. Morocarpus Sieb. & Zucc, in Munch. in Munch. Abh. d. Math.-Phys. Kl. Akad. M iss , 



iv. 3 (part.). 



M M 2 



