210 XA run A L HISTOR Y OF PL A NTS. 



48. Lanessania H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious collected on un- 

 equally obpyramidal angular receptacle ; males crowded in glome- 

 rules on the nearly flat upper base of the receptacle. Female 

 flower 1 central ; germen inferior, adnate within to centre of 

 receptacle ; style apical within central vertical canal erect and free, 

 afterwards 2-fid in subulate lacinise exserted beyond male flowers ; 

 ovule 1, subapical in cell descending; micropyle extrorsely superior. 

 Fruit . . . P — A tree (?) ; leaves alternate petiolate ; stipules lateral 

 free unequally 3- angular; inflorescence axillary pedunculate. 

 Bracts oo, unequal, imbricate around upper orbicular base of recep- 

 tacle in many cases as an involucre ; fewer inserted around apex of 

 receptacle below ; a few interposed remotely alternate very unequal 

 and inserted here and there on the slightly prominent longitudinal 

 walls of the receptacle. (North. BraziV) 



49. Scyphosyce H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious, crowded in 

 androgynous inflorescences; female 1, central; males co , perigy- 

 nously inserted in throat of reg^ilarly obcampanulate poculiform 

 receptacle, sub-1 -seriate; lobes of involucre few (4-5) broad obtuse 

 membranous, imbricate, finally (calyx-like) expanded. Male calyx 

 long obconically tubular, at base long attenuated and shortly 

 stipitate, above finally subentire truncate. Stamen 1 ; filament 

 central, inserted at bottom of calyx, erect and exserted; anthers 

 basifixed oblong, 2-rimose.* Female calyx (?) 2-phyllous ; ^ folioles 

 sessile, imbricate. Germen inserted at bottom of receptacle sessile, 

 oblong-conical, 1-locular ; ovule 1, inserted under apex of cell 

 descending ; micropyle extrorsely superior ; style terminal erect, 

 2-fid at apex ; lobes subulate recurved stigmatose. Fruit . . . ? — A 

 glabrous shrub (?) ; leaves alternate (2-stichous ?), at base long- 

 narrow, shortly petiolate, oblong-subspathulate acuminate crenate 

 penninerved, unequal at base ; stipules (equal to or longer than 

 petiole) acute, imbricate ; inflorescence axillary pedunculate. {Trop, 

 west, j4frica.^) 



50. Bosqueia Dup.-Th.'^ — Flowers monoecious; receptacles ob- 

 liquely obconical ; males crowded, inserted on oblique upper base ; 

 stamens intermixed with unequal imbricate bracts ; the exterior 



^ Adansonia, xi. 298 ; Bull. Soc. Linn. Far. ^ Nigrescent. , 



49. ^ Gynseemm bracteate at base ? 



2 Spec. 1. L. turbinata H. Bn. loc. cit. — Bro- ^ Spec. 1. S. Manniana H. Bn. loc. cit. 



simmn turbinatum Spkxjce, Herb. 7 Ex. H. Bn. Adansonia^ iii. 335, t. 10 ; viii. 



^ Adansonia, xi. 293. 72, t. 4.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 286. 



