ULMAGE^. 2W) 



males . . . ? Female flowers ^ crowded on convex receptacle pliiri- 

 seriately imbricate at base, the outermost impoverished. Calyx 

 tubularl}^ urceolate thickly coriaceous, at mouth 4-5- or more rarely 

 6-dentate ; teeth reflexed. Gormen quite inferior completely im- 

 bedded in and in every part adnate to foveoles of receptacle ; stig- 

 matose branches of enclosed style 2, filiform elongate exserted; 

 ovule inserted near apex of cell descending anatropous ; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior. Fruit . . . ? — A tree ; leaves distichous costate ; 

 stipules axillary, 2-nate, caducous ; female receptacles axillary 

 solitary subsessile."^ [North. Brazil.^) 



46. Maquira Aubl.* — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Castllloa) ; 

 male calyx 4-phyllous ; folioles decussately imbricate. Stamens 4, 

 opposite ; filaments free, erect before anthesis ; anthers introrse, 

 2-rimose. Female flowers crowded, placed (not imbedded) on 

 common receptacle ; germ en inferior relatively to gamophyllous 

 4-lobed calyx ; lobes of thick style short stigmatose. Other cha- 

 racters of CastUloa. Fruit composed of free capitate drupes attenuate 

 at base ; seed . . . ? — A moderate - sized tree ; leaves distichous 

 coriaceous, unequal at base, shortly petiolate ; stipules minute, 

 3-angular ; receptacles axillary ; males disciform, slightly depressed 

 above, involucrate with crowded pluriseriate imbricate bracts; the 

 fructiferous capitate. [Guiana.^) 



47. Perebea Aubl.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Maquira)', 

 receptacle suborbicular, at first slightly concave, afterwards plane 

 and reflexed, convex above ; bracts of involucre oo, inserted at 

 margin of receptacle and imbricate in many places. Calyx tubular, 

 at base sometimes compressed and 4-dentate at apex. Gynseciuni 

 free; germen (as regards gamophyllous calyx superior) 1 -ovulate; 

 lobes of style 2, short and other characters of Maquira, — Trees ; 

 leaves distichous ; flowers of both sexes on broad patulous receptacle 

 not imbedded. (^Central America , Guiana?) 



^ " Dense, subcoherent at base, very rigidly •'' Spec. 1. N. macrophylla Miq. loc. cit. 



subligneously bracteate." (Miq.). ^ Guian. Suppl. 36. t. 389. — Bur. Frodr. xvii. 



2 Is Ocgodeia Bur. {Prodr. 282), Naucleopsis 286. 



glabra Spruce (Herb.), n. 2793, a north Bra- * Spec. 1. M. gicianensis Aubl. loe. cit. — 



zilianrace described as : female flowers naked, Perebea laurifolia Trec. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. 



germen inferior, style thick ; stigmata 2, linear viii. 133, t. 5, fig. 136-138.— Mia. Mart. Fl. 



rather thick, the terminal half rough with un- Bras. Urtic. 117, n. 2. — ? Olmedia ? grandifolia 



equal tubercles (whence the generic name), Trec. loc. cit. 128 (Bur.). 



and numerous abortive flowers reduced to « G^M?a». ii. 952, t. 361. — ^.Geu.^O'l. — Endl. 



ovoid-pyramidal perianth, fertile flowers being Gok n. 1874.— Trec. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser 3, viii 



interposed and covering the receptacle; a sec- 132 (part-).— Bur. Prodr. vii. 286. 



tion of this genus. ^ Spec. 2, of which 1 is Panaman (Bur.). 



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