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ledons of straight exalbuminous embryo thick ; radicle short superior. 

 — Lactifluous trees ; branches marked with linear scars of fallen 

 stipules ; leaves alternate, entire, lobed or digitately divided, glabrous 

 or clothed with various indumentum, costulately venose and venulate ; 

 stipules connate in one clothing the top of the ramule ; scars linearly 

 annular ; flowers collected in compound or decompound cymes on 

 peduncle oftener 2-nate ; males small. {Trop, South America}) 



b%, Conocephalus Bl.^ — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx tubular 

 or turbinate, 4-dentate or 4-fid or more rarely unequally or subequally 

 2 -partite, valvate or at apex slightly imbricate. Stamens 4, or very 

 rarely 2, oppositisepalous ; filaments erect in bud, subequal to calyx, 

 complanate, centrally inserted around rudiment of gynoecium ; 

 anthers short exserted ; cells oftener free at base, introrsely, laterally 

 or extrorsely promiscuously rimose. Female calyx tubular, 4-fid. 

 Germen free; style terminal, apex capitate, or laterally oblong 

 stigmatose ; ovule basilar erect orthotropous or suborthotropous ; 

 micropyle superior. Fruit enclosed by persistent calyx, dry char- 

 taceous, longitudinally 2-valved. Seed ovoid; hilum basilar or 

 sublateral ; testa membranous ; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous 

 embryo fleshy plano-convex; radicle superior, — Climbing shrubs; 

 leaves alternate, entire, long-petiolate ; stipules axillary connate in one 

 semiamplexicaul, deciduous ; scars annular; flowers axillary capitate ; 

 capitule (glomeruliferous) compound cymose ; females oftener solitary. 

 [Trop, south, Asia and Oceania?') 



59. Coussapoa Aubl.* — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Conoce- 

 phalus) ; male calyx gamophyllous, subcylindrical or turbinate, im- 

 bricate ; mouth 2-3 -fid or dentate, sometimes partite. Stamens 

 2, central; filaments free or connate in erect filiform or complanate 

 column ; anthers free, extrorse, 2-rimose or connate in one 4-locular 

 and terminal ; cells longitudinally rimose. Female flower, etc., of 



1 Spec, about 20. Pcepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et 1203.— Gaudich. Voy. Bonite Bot. t. 96.— Miq. 

 Spec. ii. 29, t. 141.— Kl. Zinmea, xx. 526.— Fl. Jungh. 43 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 283 ; Suppl. 

 Mm. Mart. Fl. Bras. Urtic. 121, t. 36-41.— i. 171, 4l6, 417.— Teysm. et Binn. in Nat. 

 Walp. Ann. i. 656. Tijdschr. xxvii. 26. — Walp. Ann. i. 654. 



2 Bijdr. 483.— Endl. Gen. n. 1869.— Tkkc. * Guian. ii. 955, t. 362, 363.— J. Gen. 406.— 

 Ann. Sec. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 87, t. 2, fig. 41-51. Lamk. Diet. ii. 160.— Benn. Mors/. Fl. Jav.Rar. 

 — BuK. Frodr. xvii. 284. 49.— Enpl. Gen. n. 1866.— Tkec. Ann. Se. Nat. 



=* Spec. 7, 8 (about 10, Bur.). Benn. Horsf. ser. 3, viii. 92, t. 1, fig. 23-40.— Bur. Frodr. 



PL Jav. Far. 47, t. 12.— Linbl. Bot. Reg. t. xvii. 284. 



