

ULMACE^. 201 



4-fid, valvate. Stamens 4 ; filaments inflexed in bud finally erect ; 

 anthers introrse rotundate, 2-rimose. Germen very shortly stipi- 

 tate ; style lateral very short, afterwards 2-fid ; lobes pilose very 

 unequal ; one very long filiform ; the other (superposed to cell) very 

 short subulate; ovule in cell 1, descending and inserted under 

 the apex; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit clothed at base 

 with persistent calyx, drupaceous ; putamen chartaceous ; exocarp 

 laterally and below much thicker and finally free from putamen. 

 Seed descending ; testa membranous ; albumen fieshy ; cotyledons of 

 central embryo flat, curved at base ; radicle accumbent ascending 

 and subequal to cotyledons. — An herb^^ sometimes shrubby at base ; ^ 

 stem simple or branched from base ; branches diffuse or ascending ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate ; stipules lateral ; flowers axillary ; inflores- 

 cence androgynous pedunculate cymose-capitate solitary or 2-nate ; 

 female flowers terminal and dichotomous. {Japan, trop, and subtrop, 

 Oceania?) 



29. Bleekrodea Bl.* — Flowers moaoecious (nearly of Fatoua\ 

 4-5-merous; male calyx valvate, 4-5 -fid. Stamens 4-5; filaments 

 incurved at aestivation, inserted under rudiment of gynsecium ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-dymous. Female calyx urceolate or tubular, 

 4-dentate. Germen 1 -ovulate ; style lateral ; branches 2, very long 

 setaceous stigmatose, equal or somewhat unequal. Fruit drupaceous, 

 enclosed by urceolate calyx; exocarp unequal, thick below and 

 laterally hence to style ; putamen chartaceous. Seed subglobose, 

 sometimes fiattened above ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 very unequal ; one very small squamiform ; radicle small incumbent. 

 — Unarmed lactescent shrubs ; leaves alternate, very shortly petio- 

 late, entire or dentate, sometimes lobed, penninerved veined; stipules 

 lateral ; flowers in axillary 1-2 -sexual cymes ; the female solitary in 

 dichotomy of ramules ; the male numerous. [Borneo^ Madagascar}) 



30. Sloetia Teysm. and Binn.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of 

 Bleekrodea) ; male 3-merous ; calyx valvate. Sepals of female calyx 



* Habit quite of Urticce. folia Miq. ZolL Verz. 103, 106.— jP. globulifera 



2 Pubescence 2 - morphous ; hairs at base Miq. loc. cit, 



coarse. * Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 87. t. 28. — Bub. Frodf. 



' Spec. 1. F. japonica Bl. Mus. Lugd-Bat. xvii. 254. 



ii. t. 38. — F. pilosa Gaudich. — F. aspera Gau- ^ Spec. 2. Bl. loc. cit. 



DiCH.— i^. suhcordata Gaudich. — F. Unceolata 6 Tydschr. Nat. Ver. {19>62), — 'K.vviZ.iD.Joitrn. 



DcNE. Herb, Timor. 492. — Urtica Japonica Zt/m. /Soc. viii. (1864), 168. t. 13. — Bvn. Frodr 



Thunb. Fl. Jap. 70. — U. manillensis Walp. — xvii. 257. 



Farieiaria aspera. Leschkn. — Fleurya glechomcB- 



