206 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



39. Olmedia R. and Pav.^** — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx more 

 or less deeply 4-fid ; lobes valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens 

 same in number opposite ; filaments central or inserted around 

 minute rudiment of gyneecium, free, straight or incurved at apex ; 

 anthers incumbent, finally introrse, 2-locular, 2-rimose. Female 

 flower in polyphyllous involucre solitary free ; bracts of involucre 

 unequal, imbricate in many series. Calyx conical gamophyllous, 

 prolonged upwards to a tubular neck, 4-clentate at apex. Germen 

 free sessile unequal, prolonged at apex to a narrow slender style, 

 afterwards 2-fid ; lacinise linear elongate recurved, papillose at subu- 

 late apex. Fruit dry, indehiscent, covered with fleshy perianth ; 

 seed . . . ? — Lactescent trees ; leaves alternate petiolate, entire or 

 remotely dentate or sinuate, sometimes somewhat rough or pubescent ; 

 stipules 2, amplexicaul oblong imbricate sericeous ; flowers axillary ; 

 the males go on a small flat or slightly convex receptacle ; bracts of 

 involucre oo, pluriseriate at margin, imbricate ; the females solitary 

 in their own involucre. {Trop. America}) 



40. Antiaris Lesch.^ — Flowers monoecious; male calyx 4- 

 phyllous ; ^ folioles subspathulate, dilate at apex, decussately imbri- 

 cate. Stamens equal in number and opposite to sepals ; filaments 

 short erect free ; anthers erect oblong, extrorsely 2-rimose. Female 

 flower destitute of proper calyx ; germen 1-locular ; ovule inserted 

 under apex descending ; style branches 2, equal subulate recurved, 

 stigmatose at attenuate apex. Fruit drupaceous, adnate within to 

 accrete receptacle ; embryo of descending seed exalbuminous ; coty- 

 ledons thick plano-convex ; radicle short superior. — Lactescent trees 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate, 2-stichous, penninerved, oftener serrate 

 petiolate ; stipules lateral subaxillary, free, not amplexicaul ; 

 flowers axillary; receptacle of males 2-nate or more orbicular- 

 disciform stipitate, glomeruliferous above and involucrate with 

 crowded short marginally imbricate bracts ; of females oftener 



n. 1863.— Trec. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 127 (ed. Benn.), i. 78.— Benn. Sorsf. Fl.Jav. Bar. 



(part.), t. 2, fig. 69, 72-75.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 52, t. 13.— Spach, Suit, d Buffon, xi. 64.— Bl. 



172.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 285. Fumphia, i. 56, 172, t. 22, 23, 54. — Endl. Gen. 



1 Pers. Enchirid. ii. 612. — Spreng. Syst. iii. n. 1862. — Trec. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 142, 

 903.— PcEPP. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 30, t. 6, fig. 158-168.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 173.— 

 t. 143, 144, 14G.— Kl. Linnaa, xx. 523. — Miq. Bur. Frodr. xvii. 2B6.—Lepurandra Nimm. 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. Urtic. 113 (part.). Grah. Cat. Bomb. Fl. 193. 



2 Ann. Mus. xvi. 470, t. 22. — R. Br. Gm. ^ Male flower sometimes rarely 3-merous. 

 Bern. 70 ; FUnd. Toy. ii. 602, t, 5 ; ilfisc. Worka 



