338 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLAN18. 



shortly racemose ; each pedicel of female flower short rather thick ; 

 of the male much elongated filiform,^ articulate at base and there 

 furnished with a short" 3-5-fid epicalyx. [Trap. Asia and Oceania?) 



62. Sarcostigma Wight and Aen.* — Flowers dioecious ; leaves of 

 perianth 4, 5, subpetaloid, valvate, finally patent or reflected. Sta- 

 mens 4, 5, alternate ; filaments short ; anthers iutrorse subversatile. 

 Germeu (in long conoid efi'ete male flower) 1-locular, 2-ovulate, sur- 

 rounded by sterile staminodes ; style very short thick depressed 

 globose or obliquely reniform stigmatiferous. Fruit drupaceous, sur- 

 rounded at base with persistent perianth ; flesh scanty ; putamen 

 subligneous ; testa of seed thin ; cotyledons of fleshy thick exalbu- 

 minous embryo plano-convex, sheathing at base a short thick supe- 

 rior straight radicle. — Scandent volubilc shrubs; wood rather hard; 

 leaves alternate entire very much reticulate-veined ; flowers in elon- 

 gated spikes, and in them interruptedly glomerate or fasciculate ; 

 pedicels short, articulate at base, inserted in more or less pro- 

 minent 'callus ; bracts 4, 5, connate in short calyciform^ subentireor 

 unequally-dentate involucre inserted rather remotely from perianth 

 and at base of pedicel. [Trop. Asia and OccaniaS-) 



63. Natsiatum. Ham7 — Flowers dioecious ; leaves of perianth 

 4-6, valvate. Stamens 4 6, alternate (rudimentary in female flower); 

 filaments short dilated inserted below rudiment of emargiuate or ob- 

 scui'ely lobed gynseceum ; glands same in number between these ; 

 anthers iutrorse ; cells rimose ; connective produced beyond cells into a 

 short (transparent) point. Germen sessile villous, surrounded at base 

 with 4, 5, oppositipctalous simple or 2-nate glands, 2-ovulate ; style 

 short apical ; lobes 2, 3, linear divergent ; unequal-capitellate stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. Drupe unequally-ovate rather compressed ; flesh 

 scanty ; putamen crustaceous ; coat of descendent seed thin ; albumen 

 fleshy; radicle of subequal embryo superior conical; cotyledons orbi- 



' " Corollarum luliia" (Auctt.). Gcii. 35-4, n. 33. — H. Bx. Adansonia, iii. 3G5 ; x. 



'- " Calyce" (Auctt.). 282; Pyw^c. xvii. 16. 



•' Spec, about 5. Wight, IU. ii. 02 {Phytn- * "Calycem'' (Avctt.). 



cccHc).— Wall. Cat. n. 124 {Arnliacia).—^'i-\^l. ' Spec. 3. R, Bii. Bcnn. PI. Jav. liar. 241, t. 



Fl. hid.-Bat. i. p. i. 797.— Bl. Mm. Lwjd.- Bat. 47.— Miq. Ft. Iiid.-Bat. i. p. i. 795. 

 i. 42, t. 3.— Bedd. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 211, ' Wall. Cat.n.4252.—Aus. Ediiili. New Phil. 



t. 23. . /o!(r«. xvi. 314.— Endl. G««. n. 4697.— B. H. 



•• Edinh. New Phil. J('"(». xiv. 299.— Endl. Gen. 355, n. 34.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 357; 



Gen. n. 2107'.— Miers, Ann. Nat. Mist. scr. 2, x. 267; Prodr. xvii. l7.~Nansiatum Haji. (ex' 



X. 116; Contrib. i. 103, t. 18 (part.).— B. H. R. Bb. Bcnn. PI. Jav. Sar.2V<). 



