33fi NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



at the apex ; autkers extrorse ; cells lougitudiually rimose. Female 

 calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, alternate, slightly longer, at apex acute or 

 obtuse pubescent ciliolate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous sterile ; fila- 

 ments very short erect ; anthers basifixed extrorse effete. Germen 

 inserted in pateriform central receptacle, free long exserted elon- 

 gate-cylincb-ical straight or arched, ^^roduced to a point at the apex, 

 surrounded at base with papillose orbicular disk; cell 1, 2-OYulate ; 

 ovules 2-nate collaterally dbscendent ; micropylo introrse superior ; 

 fiinicle iucrassate. Fruit (nearly of Kumuiericv) drupaceous elliptical 

 auticipiti- compressed obscurely ribbed ; flesh scanty ; putameu thin 

 hard ; one seed rudimentary, the other perfect pendulous ; albumen 

 fleshy copious ; cotyledons of minute subapical oblique embiyo 

 obovate shorter than conical radicle. — A glabrous tree ; ^ leaves 

 alternate ^^etiolate-entire membranous or subcoriaceous pcnninerved ; 

 primary nerves parallel ; flowers crowded axillary or terminating short 

 axillary branches bearing 1 or 2 leaves at the base, and disposed in 

 many times ramified cymiferous racemes. [Malacca.-) 



V. PHYTOCEENE^. 



GO. Phytocrene Wall. — Flowers dioecious ; male perianth 

 (corolla) 3, 4-partite ; leaves valvate, more or less coherent at base, 

 finally solute and slightly recurved at apex. Stamens same in 

 number alternate ; filaments free inserted round stipitate-cylindi-ical 

 clavate and hispid rudiment of gynajceum ; anthers introrse ; cells 2, 

 parallel discrete, inserted on margin of rectangular connective, longi- 

 tudinally rimose, finally subvcrsatile. Parts of female perianth 3, 4-val- 

 vate, more or less persistent. Staminodes same in number or 1, 2, very 

 small dentiform alternate. Germen sessile, villose at base, 1-locular ; 

 style of germen subequal tliick erect, cylinthical or subclavate villose, 

 hollow tubular or very narrow iufundibuliform, at apex stigmatose 

 unequally capitate, 2-i-lobed or sub- 2 -labiate. Ovules m cell 2-nate 

 collaterally descendent ; micropylo introrse superior. Drupes oo , col- 

 lected in large globose capitule, villose or echiuate ; spines inserted in 

 hollows of putamen, finally solute ; putameu hard ligneous, replete at 

 apex with resinous vesicules, at base 1-locular, 1-spermous ; mesocarp 



' Habit that of some Artocarpiis. ■ Spec. 1. O. myriantliea H. Bn. loc. cit. 



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