222 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



petiolate, penninerved denticulate ; flowers in axillary and terminal 

 racemes, 2-sexual. [North Brazil}) 



89. Angostyles Benth.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx valvate, 3-4-partite. Stamens co (about 20), inserted on elevated 

 receptacle ; filaments central short, l-adelphous at base ; antbers 

 2-dymous ; connective wide 3 -angular; cells free among themselves, 

 widely adnate to connective, divergent at base. Female calyx 5- 

 partite, quincuncially imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate ; 

 style (much larger than germen) thick obconical ; branches 3, deeply 

 2-partite ; lobes hence 6 inwardly wide papillose-carinate.^ Fruit 

 capsular, 3-coccous ; seed . . . ? — A tree ; leaves alternate, collected 

 at summit of twigs, 2-stipuIate, penninerved denticulate ; below at 

 base marked on both sides with 4-8 glands. Flowers cyraose- 

 racemose on wood of branches of preceding year ; the female solitary 

 in axils of leaves of branches of the present year. {North Brazil.*) 



90. Fragariopsis A. S. H.'^ — Flowers monoecious ; male calyx 

 valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens a: , alternately seriate, sometimes few 

 remote ; anthers extrorse subsessile in hemispherical glandular 

 receptacle ; cells divergent deflexed at base, longitudinally^ rimose. 

 Female calyx 4-partite. Germen sessile ; cells 4, alternating with 

 sepals, 1-oviilate; style (much larger than germen) thickly obovoid, 

 obpyramidal or subcuboid, shortly 4-lobate at apex ; cells cruciate 

 radiant, inwardly sulcate and stigmatiferous. Fruit globose or sub- 

 cuboid, carnose-suberous, 1-4-locular ; seed . . . ? — Scandent shrubs; 

 leaves alternate stipulate penninerved ; base of limb 2-glanduliferous 

 above, glandular- denticulate at margin ; flowers in oppositifolious 

 or extra-axillary racemes ; the inferior in the racemes female ; the 

 others male. {Brazil.^) 



91. Plukenetia Plum.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous (nearly of 



' Spec. 2. M. Ano. loc. cit.—U. Bn. in ■■> A. S. H. Moyphul. Veg. 426 (ex H. Bn. 



Adansonia, v. 307. Euphorb. 497, t. 12, fig. 45 ; t. 13, fig. 29-36). 



2 In Hook. Journ. (1854), 328.— H. Bn. —Vi.. kno. Prodr. m.—Acvia, A., a. H. op.cit. 



Euphorb. 498, t. 9, fig. 8-11.— M. Alio. Prodr. i99.—Jlotri/(!iil!ie Kl. in Eridis. Arch. (1841), 



767. 190, t. 9, fig, B.— Endl. Gen. n. 5784'. 



^ The style hence representing all the corolla, ^ Spec. 1, 2. H, Bn. in Adansonia, v. 317. 



thick tuhular-infundibuUform G-lohed above. 7 Nov. Gen. Aniei: 47, t. 13 j Jc. t. 226. — 



' Spec. 1. A. longifolia Benth. loc. cit.— U. L. Gen. n. 1080.— J. Gen. 392.— Lamk. /«. t. 



Bn. in Adansonia, v. 318. 788.— Pom. Diet. vi. 449 ; Suppl. v. 20.— Endl. 



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