200 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



merous ; sepals free or connate to a greater or less height, at apex 

 often unequally denticulate. Stamens 2, or more rarely 1, 3 ; fila- 

 ments inflectedly incurved, finally exsilient exserted ; anthers introrse 

 subglobose, 2-rimose. Calyx of female flower small, very small 

 (or 0), inserted (perigynously) at mouth of receptacular cavity and 

 closing it, with small aperture at apex. Germen (relatively to 

 perianth quite inferior) inserted at bottom of cavity, sessile or shortly 

 stipitate, compressed ; style under apex lateral, apex exserted beyond 

 aperture of perianth and there 2 -fid ; laciniae subulate stigmatose. 

 Ovule inserted under apex of cell and under base of style, descend- 

 ing, more or less campylotropal ; micropyle extrorsely superior. 

 Fruit drupaceous finally exserted from folds of receptacle ; exocarp 

 fleshy, thicker at margin, and at maturity projecting elastically 

 beyond the crustaceous free putamen.^ Seed exalbuminous ; coty- 

 ledons of somewhat fleshy embryo subequal, unequally plicate or 

 conduplicate enfolding the incumbent radicle. — Small shrubs or 

 oftener perennial herbs; juice milky or opaline; rhizome often 

 tuberous, marked with scars of leaves and thickened stipules, or more 

 rarely with erect stem ; leaves alternate various ; stipules lateral, 

 generally persistent or indurated ; receptacle of axillary solitary 

 pedunculate inflorescence dilated very various in form, either entire 

 shortly clavato -ovoid or orbicularly peltate, sometimes unequally 

 quadrate, obconical or shortly infundibuliform, or linear and furcate ; 

 branches oftener 2, more rarely 3-5, equal or very unequal (2 being 

 longer) ; bracts oo , unequal, imbricate, inserted at margin of 

 receptacle, 1 - or oo-seriate ; upper surface of receptacle floriferous ; 

 female flowers scattered and inserted in lowest folds of receptacle ; 

 the male more numerous perigynous as regards a central female and 

 glomerulate around mouth of foveole ; many glomerules (especially 

 the peripherical) entirely male. {Trop, America^ Asia and Africa.'^) 

 28. Fatoua Gaudich.^ — Flowers monoecious, 4-merous; calyx 



209.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 516; Suppl. ii, 517; IlL Syst. iii. 472; Mantiss. iii. 316.— Spreng. Syst. 



t. 83. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, xi. 61. — Turp. iii. 777. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 153. — 



Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 284.— Exdl. Gen. n. 1860. Moric. Fl. Nouv. Amer. 90. t. 58.— Thw. 



— Bur. Frodr. xvii. 258. — Sychinimn Desvx. Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 264. — Mia. Mart. Fl. Bras. 



MSm. Soc. Linn. Far. iv. 216. — Kosaria L. Syst. Urtie. 159. t. 55-61. — Hochst. Flora (1844), 



ii. p. i. 71.— FoRSK. Fl. JEg.-Arab. 164; Ic. 108. — Wight, Icon. vi. n. 1964.— Hook. f. 



t. 20. Bot. Mag. t. 5908.— Welw. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



^ Cfr. H. Bn. Compt. Rend. Ac. Sc. Par. Ixx. xxvii. 70.— Schweixf. Bot. Zeit. xxix. 332. — 



799; Adansonia, ix. 318. Walp. Ann. i. 732. Bot. Mag. t. 5795, 5908. 



2 Spec, about 45. L. Spec. ed. 3. i. 176. — W. ^ Freycin. Voy. Bot. 509; Toy. Bonite. Bot. 



Spec. i. p. ii. 682.— Jacq. Ic. Bar. iii. 18. t. 614.— t. 84.— Exdl. Gen. 278.— Bur. Frodr. xvii. 255. 

 Wendu. R(£m, Arch. i. 51. — Kckm. et. Sch. 



