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bricate or sub-valvate. Stamens 3,4; anthers short introrse ; cells 

 snbglobular rimose. Female calyx urceolate, at apex shortly or very 

 shortly 4-dentate, sometimes hence fissous. Gynsecium sessile; 

 germen 1 -ovulate; style erect, presently divided into 2 branches, 

 equal or unequal {Allceanthus\ filiform papillose. Fruit sessile, 

 enclosed by calyx, coriaceous fleshy ; albumen or scanty mucous ; 

 cotyledons of fleshy embryo equal or unequal ; radicle various. — 

 Trees or shrubs, often climbing, lactescent ; leaves petiolate, 2- 

 stichous, entire or serrate ; stipules lateral, deciduous ; inflorescence 

 axillary pedunculate, solitary or 2-nate, sometimes more ; the male 

 spikelike glomerulate ; female flowers capitate ; bracteate.^ {Trop, 

 Asia and Oceania.'^) 



20 ? Cardiogyne Bur/^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Brousso- 

 netia or Madura) ; calyx 4 -fid, in female flower oftener thicker, 

 imbricate/ Stamens 4, germen and other characters of Caturus ; 

 style simple very long, long-filiform and stigmatose above. Fruit 

 collected on globular syncarp ; drupes co, nidulant; exocarp thin; 

 putamen crustaceous fragile. Seed exalbuminous ; coat thin mem- 

 branous; cotyledons of incurved embryo foliaceous wide much 

 corrugate-conduplicate, one enveloping the other ; radicle incumbent 

 on cotyledons thick conical, slightly curved, ascending. — A spinous 

 shrub; leaves alternate petiolate entire penninerved ; inflorescence 

 of both sexes axillary 2-nate, shortly pedunculate or sessile ; recep- 

 tacle globose glomerulate ; flowers alternately free and bracteate cla- 

 vate rather thick, at apex truncately peltate, intermixed.^ [Zanzibar.^) 



21 ? Plecospermum Trec.^ — Flowers dioecious (of Cardiogyne o] 

 Broussonetia), 4-merous ; male calyx 4-fid, imbricate ; female pierced 

 at apex with very small aperture 4-denticulate. Syncarp globose 

 fleshy enclosing free fertile and sterile achenes; embryo of ex- 

 albuminous seed fleshy ; cotyledons conduplicate covering ascending 

 radicle. Other characters of Broussonetia (or Madura). — A spinous 



1 A genus very near to Broussonetia, Allceau- "* The female sepals very often enclose in the 

 thfcs intervening, and also to Madura, notwith- very thick substance of the parenchyma 2 cells 

 standing the calyx of the latter is formed of free (of a sterile anther ?)filled with a yellow powder, 

 folioles. AllcBanthus is (not without right) a The same is more rarely the case in the male 

 section of Madura, according to Miq. FL Ind.- calyx of some very near genera of Flecospermum. 

 Bat. i. p. ii. 280. The sepals thus call to mind those of the Oxa- 



2 Spec. 2. 3. Hook, and Arn. Beech. Voij. lidea, though thicker. 



Bot. 214 {Trophis). —Bl. Bijdr. 488 {Morus) ; * A genus to be reduced perhaps to a section 



Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 75 {Malasia). — Miq. loc. dt. of Cudrania. 



281 {Cephalotrophis).—M. Arg. DC. Prodr. xv. « Spec. 1. C africana Bur. he, dt. 



t. ii. 906 (^/cAorma).— Benth. FL Austral. 7 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 124, t. 4, fig. 121- 



180 {Malaisia). 126.— Bub. Frodr. xvii. 233, 

 » Frodr. xvii. 232. 



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