202 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



4, decussately imbricate. Gynsecium of BleeJcrodea ; style branches 

 very long filiform. Fruit of BleeJcrodea^ enclosed by calyx ; embryo 

 of exalbuminous (?) seed fleshy ; cotyledons unequal submem- 

 branous thic ; radicle rather long thick ascending. — A lactescent 

 tree ; leaves alternate entire ; stipules amplexicaul ; ^ inflorescence 

 2-sexual ; receptacle long amentiform flat linear ; one surface naked ; 

 the other bearing very crowded (minute-flowered) male glomerules ; 

 one female here and there in very few glomerules (or 1) central and 

 exserted. (Java.^) 



31 ? Trymatococcus Pcepp. and Endl.^ — Flowers monoecious ; 

 male calyx 3-4-fid. Stamens 3, 4, enclosed ; filaments membranous 

 dilated connate at base, at sestivation inflexed or sometimes sub- 

 erect ; anthers short ; cells small subglobose, laterally or introrsely 

 rimose. Gyneecium nearly of Sloetia (or Dorstenia); calyx 0; 

 germen imbedded within central cavity of obcampanulate or urceo- 

 late receptacle, relative to glomerules of male flowers inferior. 

 Fructiferous receptacle crowned at apex with the persistent remains 

 of the male flowers and covering the fruit below adnate to itself 

 within, externally slightly hirsute. Seed descending globose ; coty- 

 ledons of exalbuminous embryo very unequal ; one very small 

 nearly flat ; the other very large and thick subglobose ; radicle short 

 superior. — Trees or shrubs;* leaves distichous rugulose, unequal at 

 base, shortly petiolate; stipules lateral small free connivent, cadu- 

 cous ; scar linear transverse ; capitules axillary pedunculate, solitary 

 or 2-6, ovoid-globose or turbinate-subcampanulate, perforated at 

 apex, scabrid without, enclosing single central female flower within ; 

 male flowers inserted in crowded bracteate glomerules around the 

 mouth of the receptacle and finally persistent to top of fructiferous 

 receptacle.^ {North. Brazil^ trop. west, Africa.^) 



III. AETOCAEPE^. ' 

 32. Artocarpus L. — Flowers monoecious ; male calyx 2-4-fid or 

 sometimes partite, imbricate. Stamen 1 ; filament central erect ; 



^ After the manner of nearly all Artocarpece. ^ A genus hence very near to Dorstenia, 



2 Spec. 1. Mia. Ft. Lid.-Bat. Suppl. i. 172, differing only in the single central female 

 419 {Artocarpus). flower, whence from stamens sometimes (at 



3 Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 30, t. 142. — Endl. least in American species) scarcely inflexed, 

 Gen. n. 1863^— Trec. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, tiii. allied to some Artocarpece. 



14.2. Bur. Prodr. xvii. 278. ^ Spec. 2, of which one is African. H. Bn. 



4 u j^Qt milky." Adansonia^ xi. 300. 



