340 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



gyuous perianth, accrescent in sacciform gamophyllous calyptra coni- 

 cal or long produced beyond pericarp in tube 4 -dentate at apex, 

 style apiculate, outwardly rugose-setaceous ; mesocarp thin ; piita- 

 mcn outwardly rugose-setaceous ; mesocarp thin ; putamen out- 

 wardly foveolate, inwardly produced into woody prickles penetrating 

 the seed ; seed and embryo of Pyrenacantlm. — Scandent hirsute 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate simple petiolate penninerved ; female 

 flowers capitate or shortly spicate ; receptacle of capitule hard thick ; 

 capitnles pedunculate lateral solitary or racemose ; bracts longer 

 than floAver reflexed.^ (Troj). Jfn'ca.''^) 



OG. lodes Bl.^ — Flowers dioecious ecalyculate {Gt/mniodes *) or of- 

 tener calyculate (Uviodes,^ Lasiodes ") ; lobes of gamophyllous perianth 

 sometimes (Z«s2orfes) surrounded at base by a dense crown of hairs, 3 or 

 oftener4, 5, valvate, outwardly densely villous, finally expanded, re- 

 flexed or revolute persistent round fruit. Stamens 3-5, alternate; 

 filaments free, sometimes complanate, usually short, inserted below 

 rudiment of gynteceum ; anthers straight (Lasiodes, Eviodes) or 

 more rarely (G//ni?iiodes) cochleate-reflexed, introrse, 2-rimose. Gor- 

 men inserted in dilated receptacle 2-ovulate ; obturator small; style 

 sessile, afterwards thick discoid dilated or subreniform; concave 

 radiate - oo - sulcate at apex, more rarely laterally obovate excentric. 

 Drupe siuToundcd at base by perianth and sometimes by calycule ; 

 mesocarp thin ; seed albuminous ; cotyledons of embryo rising one 

 half above the albumen, foliaceous; radicle short superior. — Shrubs; 

 usually high scandent, villous or tomentose ; leaves opposite entii-e 

 penninerved ; inflorescence pedunculate cymose-racemose ; male 

 flowers very ramose abundant ; peduncles axillary or with 1, 2 buds 

 elcvate-supra-axillary sometimes lateral to leaves, slender or thick 

 ligneous ; inferior often changed into tendrils ; flowers (small) villose- 

 ciliate articulate at summit of pedicel, or calyculate [Fviodcs, 

 Lasiodes) ; epicalyx minute xmequally-dentate, or ( G//nuiiodes) ecaly- 

 culate. (Jsia, Oceania and Trop. Africa and Madagascar?) 



67 ? Cardiopterys Wall.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite regular ; 



' A genus ilifi'eiing mainly from allied 262 ; Prodr. 22. 

 Pyrenacantlm by inferior fruit, enclosed ty ■• H. Bn. Prodr. 23, sect. 2. 



accrescent perianth. * H. Bti. Adansoiiia, x. 267; Prodr. sect. 1. 



2 Spec. 2. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 359 {Phyto- « H. Bn. Adansonia, x. 268 ; Prodr. sect. 3. 

 crene f). ' Spec. ad. 6 Pl. Hool;. Jourii. v. 247 {Naii- 



3 Pijdr. 29.— E. Bit. in Benii. PI. Jav. Par. siatum) .—'iiiQ.. Fl. Ind.-Pat. i. p. i. 795.— Oliv. 

 243, t. 48.— Endl. e««. n. 4689.— B. H. aeii. Fl. Trap. Afr. i.SoS.—K.Bti. Adansonia, ix.H6. 

 36.5, n. 35.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 364; x. ' Cat. n. 8033.— Lind. Introd. 82.— R. Bn. 



