ULMAGEjE. 195 



leaves alternate, entire or rarely lobate, stipules, dioecious and 

 anient ous, hence glomerulate flowers and other characters of Morns 

 or Ampalis,^ [Australia^ Polynesia.^) 



in. Trophis P. Br.^ — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 4-partite 

 or 4 -fid, valvate. Stamens 4 (of Morus)^ inserted under obpyra- 

 midal rudiment of gynaecium. Female calyx perigynous, inserted 

 in margin of concave cupular- saclike receptacle subovoid and 

 gamophyllous, at contracted apex 4-lobed or 4-dentate. Germen 

 semi-inferior ; style, cell and descending ovule of Moms (or Ampalis), 

 Fruit semi-inferior or inferior, crowned with persistent calyx, 

 drupaceous ; putamen thin parchment-like. Seed sub-globular ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo hemispherical fleshy ; radicle 

 conical very small superior. — Lactescent unarmed trees or shrubs; 

 leaves alternate, 2-stichous, petiolate; stipules lateral small, cadu- 

 cous ; flowers glomerulate ; inflorescence spikelike or racemiform 

 glomerulate ; racemes (spurious) simple or compound. [Both trap. 

 Americas.'^) 



17. Broussonetia Vent.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Moms) ; 

 male sepals 4, free or connate at base, valvate. Stamens 4 ; fila- 

 ments elastically exsilient ; anthers short introrse.^ Female calyx 

 membranous obconico-urceolate, denticulate at apex. Germen stipi- 

 tate, 1-locular ; style lateral to apex subulate-filiform exserted 

 stigmatose; micropyle of descending ovule extrorsely superior. 

 Fruit stipitate to elongate gynophore girt at base with persistent 

 calyx, drupaceous ; mesocarp very thin at both faces, at base and 

 margins on both sides thick fleshy ; putamen crustaceous or osseous, 

 finally free from exocarp )^ testa of descending seed thin ; cotyledons 



1 A genus of doubtful autonomy and very Wright. Mem. Jtner. Acad. ser. 8 (1860), 173; 

 probably hereafter to be reduced to a section of Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 153 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 58.— 

 Ampalis. Schltl, Linncea, vi. 357. — Liebm. Vidensk, 



2 Spec. 1. very various in form, as P. Bruno- SelfsJcr, Kjoben. (1851), ii. 315, 335 {Sorocea). — 

 niana BUR. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 372. — Seem. Bonplandia, v. 74. 



Benth. fl Austral, vi. 181. — Morus Brunoniana '" Tabl. iii. 547. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon^ xi. 49. 



ExDL. Atakta^ t. 32.— Jf. pendulina F. Bauer, — Endl. Gen. n. 1858. Payer, Fam. Nat. 



Ic. ined. PL Norfolk, t. 186, Exdl. Prodr. FL 172.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 223.— Papi/ritis Poir. 



Norfolk. iO.—Streblus Brunoniana F. Muell. Dict.y. 3.— Lamk. III. t. 762 —Stromadendrum 



Frag. vi. 192. — S. pendulina F. Muell. loc. eit. Pav. Herb, ex Bur. Adansonia, x. 734. 



3 mst. Jam. 357.— L. Sgst. n. 1103 (part.).— e Pollen granular in B. paptjrifera s^heTical 

 J. Gen. 442 (part.).— Poir. Diet. viii. 122 (part.) . with 2 thick polar papillae. (H. Mohl. Ann. Sc. 

 — ExDL. Gen. n. 1871 (part.). — Trec. Ann. iVi?^. ser. 2, iii. 313. 



Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 146.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 252. 7 And by the elasticity of the fork formed 



Bucephalon Plum. PL Ainer. (ed. Burm.), 55.— from the thick margins of the sarcocarp after 



— L. Spec. ed. 3, 1661. the rupture of its surfaces projected to a less or 



■» Spec. 2, 3. Sw. Ob.s. 372.— W. S.jcc. ii. 733. greater distance. (Cfr. H. Bn. Compt. Ttend Iii. 



—MiQ. Mart. FL Bras. Urtic. 159.— Griseb. PL 19 ; Adansonia, i. 226, t. 8. 



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