ULMAOEM. 205 



scanty ; putamen thin fragile. Seed descending ; albumen scanty ; 

 cotyledons of curved embryo oblong-elliptical subfoliaceous ; radicle 

 accumbent descending. — Lofty trees ; leaves opposite wide, 3-lobed ; 

 stipules 2 on each side, interpetiolate, deciduous ; syncarps globose 

 axillary.^ ( Guiana,^) 



37. Cudrania Trec.^ — Flowers dioecious; sepals 4, free, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 4, opposite, sometimes at base coherent with sepals, 

 inserted around acute rudiment of gynsecium. Germen and other 

 characters of Artocarpus ; style branches 2, very unequal ; one very 

 short denticuliform ; the other slender elongate, at apex filiform 

 stigmatose. Syncarp globose, composed of crustaceous, ovately 

 lenticular, 2-valvate capsules, with persistent stipate sepals ; testa of 

 amphitropous seeds thin ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of plicate 

 embryo rather thick contortuplicate subequal ; radicle superior long. 

 Spinous shrubs, oftener climbing ; leaves alternate entire petiolate, 

 oblong or obovate, acuminate or mucronate ; stipules 2 axillary, 

 connate at base, deciduous ; flowers capitate ; capitules globose 

 (glomeruliferous) pedunculate axillary, 2-nate. {South east. Jsia, 

 Malaya^ Australia^ New Caledonia}) 



38. Helianthostylis H. Bn.^— Flowers dioecious (or monoecious ?) 

 male calyx obconical membranous, imbricate, 4-fid. Stamens 4, 

 opposite lobes of calyx; filaments short erect, finally elongately 

 exserted, at base connate with each other and with stipes of 

 gynsecium ; anthers short, extrorsely rimose ; connective sub- 

 orbicular.^ Germen sterile effete, produced upwards to a style very 

 long exserted accrescent and very slender somewhat hispid. Female 

 flower . . . ? Fruit globose ; pericarp thin fragile, externally scabrid ? 

 testa of subglobose seed thin ; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous 

 embryo 2, plano-convex or sometimes 3, equi-angular fleshy ; radicle 

 superior very short. — A tree (?) ; leaves alternate (2-stichous ?) 

 petiolate ; stipules small connivent ; ^ flowers axillary capitate ; 

 capitules globose, shortly pedunculate, involucrate with few bracts ^ 

 at base. {North, BraziU) 



' A genus of somewhat uncertain place from {Madura), 290 {Cudranus). — Thw. Enum. 



the male flowers and stamens heing unknown, Plant. Zeyl. 262 (Cudranus) .—Bl. Mus. Lugd.- 



but much resembling Madura. Bat. ii. 83 {Madura) .—Bv^. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 



2 Spec. 1. V. 2 (Bur.). 5, xi. 377 {Oudranus). —BsifTH. Fl. Austral, vi. 



' Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 122, t. 3, fig. 76- 178. 



85. — Bur. Prodr. xvii. 285. — Cudranus Rumph. ^ Adansonia, xi. 299. 



fferb. Amboin. v. 22, t. 15, 16. ^ Dark coloured. 



* Spec. 5, 6. W. Spec. iv. 735 {Trophis). — 7 Scars transverse, not confluent. 



RoxB. Cat. Wall. {Batis).—M.ia. Fl. Jungh. 44; s Spec. 1. H. Sprucei H. Bn. loc. cit. 



I. Verz. ii. 90 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 280 9 Frodr. 129, t. 28 ; Fl. Per. 257.— Endl. Gen, 



