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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



convex central receptacle sometimes Q-glaudular at base ( Convccibea ^) ; 

 filaments imequal ; the exterior shorter erect ; the interior elongate, 

 contorto-plicate or corr\igate in bnd ; some central anthorless ; 

 anthers nsually introrse or partly extrorse ; sometimes all extrorse 

 (Vcconcibea^), short rimose, sometimes coanective produced above 

 beyond cells. Female calyx 5-10-partite, imbricate; the exterior or 

 all the leaves furnished outwardly at base with 2 thick glands 

 (like bracts). Germen .3-locular ; ovules solitary ; styles thick 

 short erect, afterwards in three lobes, dilatato-reflexed, stigmatiforous 

 2-dentate or 2-fid at apex. Fruit capsular, 3-agonal ; exocarp thick ; 

 cocci liguescent subcrustaceous, l-si^ermous ; seeds arillate at 

 micropyle. — -Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate, stipulate subentu-e, 

 penninerved or at base 3-5-plinerved, coriaceous reticulate- veined, 

 stellate-pubescent below and fuscate-glandular-punctate ; flowers 

 terminal ; the male in ramified glomeruliferons spikes ; the female 

 in thicker spikes, sometimes glomeruliferous ; bracts laterally thickly 

 2-glandulifcrous. {Trop. America^ Troj), W. Africa.*) 



63 ? Gavarretia H. Bn.'^ — Flowers diojcious (nearly of Conccveiba); 

 the male unknown. Female calyx gamophylloiis urceolate strictly 

 encircling long germen truncate at mouth, entire or obscurely 4- 

 dentate, valvate. Germen 2-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle 

 obturated ; style erect nearly from base 2 -partite ; lobes 2 -fid recurved 

 patent subulate papillose subequal to germen. Fruit . . . ? — A 

 tree (?) ; leaves alternate petiolate stipulate obovate, minutely glan- 

 (luliferous on both sides below ; female flowers in terminal spikes ; 

 bracts 1 or few flowered, minutely 2-glandular at base." [2{orth 

 Brazil?) 



64. Macaranga Dup.-Th. — Flowers dioscious apetalous ; male 

 calyx valvate. Stamens co, sometimes few or subsolitary ; filaments 

 central situated on rather convex eglandular receptacle; anthers 



1 M. Arc. in Flora (1864), 530. 



- M. Aeo. in Limiten, xxxir. 167. 



' Spec. 4. SpHENo. Syst. iii. 901 {Conce- 

 rrihimi). — Benth. loc. cit. 332. — H. Bn. in 

 Adansonia, v. 221. 



•■ Spec. 1. C. Africana M. Aro. in Flora 

 (1864), 630; Pndr. 897, n. 7. 



5 In Adaiisonia, i. 185, t. 7, fig. 3, 4. 



« A genua reduced by Aro. to a section of 

 Concemiba. Whether sufiSciently distinct f 



' Spec. 1. G. terminnlis H. Bn. loe. cit. 

 — Coiicereiha termitiaUs 51. Ako. in Linncea 

 xxxiv. 167 ; Frodr. 897, n. 5. 



3 Gen. Nov. Madag. 26, n. 88.— A. Juss. 

 Fiiphorb. 43. — E.ndl. Gen. n. 5789.— H. Bn. 

 EiiphorHZl, t. 21, fig. a-9.— M. Aro. Prodr. 987 

 (incl. : Adeiwccras Reichb. f. et Zoll. Adisca 

 ZoLL. Mappa A. Juss. Mecosti/lis Kuhz, Par/ii/- 

 stcmon Bl. Panhopia Nor. Psendo-Pottlera Zoll. 

 et Reichb. p.). — Baker, FL Mam-it, 306, 



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