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NATURAL niSrORV OF PLANTf^. 



sometimes truncate, exarillate, smooth or imequally-rugose or 

 tuberculate ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo ovate. — Fruit some- 

 times decumbent, oftener scandent or voluble ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate penninerved or digitinerved, entire, dentate or lobed, some- 

 times compound ; leaves often petiolate ; inflorescence 2 -sexual 

 axillary pedunculate; bracts 2, usually large foliaceous, sometimes 

 coloured,' stipulate ; " female flowers laterally inferior, few (gene- 

 rally 3) cyraose ; male sujserior in terminal contracted cymes ; female 

 cymes surrounded by a special plui'ibractiate involucre ; male above 

 accompanied laterally by fleshy reddish multicristate appendage 

 (sterile bractlets ?^) ; pedicels short articulate.* {All hot regions.^) 



93. Pera MuT." — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 2-5- 

 partite or -fid, valvate, sometimes small or rudimentary. Stamens 

 2-10 often equal in number to sepals ; filaments central, shortly or 

 sometimes long {Schismatopera ^) connate in column ; anthers in- 

 trorsely laterally or extrorsely 2-rimose. Calyx of female flowers 

 short or evolute ; sepals subfi-eo or more or less high connate. Germen 

 central, 3-locular ; ovules solitary in cells ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior obturated ; style short thick, afterwards divided in large 

 entire or more or less deep crcnate. Cajisules 3-coccous ; cocci 

 2-valved ; endocarp usually solute ; micropyle of very albuminous 

 seeds with incrassate fleshy aril. — Trees,*^ glabrous sprinked with 

 fasciculate or lepidote hau-s ; leaves alternate or rarely oi)posite, 

 entire penninerved subcoriaceous exstipulate ; flowers axillary pedi- 

 cellate subsolitary or few cymose included in involucre, involucre 



' Whitish, yellowish, or rather piirpurascent. 



- Small, often whitish. 



•' Anthers (leforraate f (Ako.). 



■' A genus constituting a peculiar sect. [Dele- 

 champiere M. Arg.), formerly part of Enpliorbiece 

 (A. Juss.). We think it allied to Phikeiietia, 

 differing from it hy its abhreviate contracted 

 anthers. 



!> Spec, ad .50. H. B. K. Nur. Gen. ct Spec. 

 ii. 98.— Endl. Audit, t. 20, 21.— Bl. liijdr. 632. 

 —Wight, Icon. t. 1882.— Pojp. et Endl. Nov. 

 Oeii. et Spec. iii. 19, t. 222. — Griseb. in Nadir, d. 

 Wiss. Gmtt (186.5), 181 ; Fl. Brit. W.-Iiiil 51.— 

 Benth. Niffer, oOO. — M. Aug. in Zmiuca, xxxiv. 

 219; in i^fora (1872), 4.5.— H. Bn. in Adnii- 



soiiia, i. 75, 277, 350 ; iii. 161 ; v. 309 ; vi. 16. 



" In Ahh. der Seliwed. Akad. v. (1784), 299, 

 t. 18.— Kl. in Erichs. Areh. (1841), vii. 179.— 

 Endl. Ocn. n. 5768 (Suppl. ii. 87).— H. Bn. 

 Eiiphwb. 433, t. 2, fig. 25-27.— M. Aro. Prodr. 

 1025.— P(TH/tf, ScHRED. (?('«. 70S. ~ Spixiir, 

 Leandr. in Miiiwh. Beiikschr. vii. 231, t. 13. — 

 Pcridium Schott. in Sprenij. Cur. Post. App. 

 410. — Kl. loc. cit. 180, t. 7; in Hook. Journ. 

 (1843), 44.— tY«s<raH//(KsPoiT.MSS. (ex H. Bn. 

 loc. cit.). 



' Kl. loc cit, t. 7. 



s Haliit in some respects that of Monimia- 

 cta, Aiioiiacetc or Ardisiacea, 



