ULMACE.E. 217 



61. Musanga R. Bk.i — Flowers dioecious; calyx tubular longer 

 or shorter obconical, entire at apex and there truncate in males ; 

 mouth orbicular, in females perforated by very small aperture. 

 Stamen 1, inserted at bottom of calyx; filament erect; anther 

 terminal, facing outward; cells 2, longitudinally rimose. Germen 

 erect enclosed free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, basilar erect orthotropons ; 

 micropyle superior, at apex stigmatose scarcely incrassate. 

 Fruit covered with persistent calyx rather ovoidly compressed 

 subligneous ; seed erect ; embryo . . . ? — A tree ;^ leaves digitate ; 

 stipules wide foliaceous coriaceous, covering top of younger ramnle, 

 deciduous ; male flowers in very compound capituliferous racemes ; 

 capitules globular small, intermixed with bracts peltate at apex ; 

 females glomerulate on thick oblong receptacle. [Trop, ivest. Africa?) 



62. Myrianthus P.-Beauv.^ — Flowers dioecious; males 4- 

 merous, 4-androus (of Conocephalus) ; filaments sometimes variously 

 connate; anthers 2-locular, 2 -rimose. Female flowers of Mu- 

 sanga or Conocephalus ; germen free 1-locular ; ovule basilar erect 

 orthotropons ; ^ style clavate to stigmatose apex. Syncarp ovoid 

 or ellipsoid wide and covering oo (dry ?) fruits ; seed exalbumi- 

 nous. Other characters of Conocephalus. — A moderate-sized tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate digitate ; leaflets (to 6) lanceolate unequal, 

 white beneath ; stipules wide (of Cecropia) ; scar obliqnely linear ; 

 glomerules of flowers go ; males congregated along axes of ramose 

 inflorescence; females on subglobose capitule.^ {Trop, west. Africa?) 



63. Dicranostachys Trec.^— Flowers dioecious (nearly of Myri- 



(ZarMwa).— Plukx, Almag. 146, t. 242, fig. 5 Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 86. — Bur. Prodr. xvii. 284 



{Ficus). — P. Br. Jam. Ill {Coilotapalus). — (not Nutt.). 

 Jacq. Obs. ii. 12, t. 46 ; Stirp. Am. Pict. 126, t. ^ Coat 2-plicate. 



262, fig. 66. — AuBL. Guian. ii. 894. — W. Spec. ^ In the axil of single leaves flowers are oL- 



iv. 651. — SpiiENG. &yst. iii, 809. — Kl. Linnaa, served with superior conical foliaceous bud and 



XX. 530. — Garcke, Linncea, xxii. 70. — A. Rich. 2 female inferior stipitate inflorescences, girt on 



R. S. Cuba, xi. 222.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.- ^oth sides with scars of stipules. All the 



Lid. 152. — LiEBM. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. female flowers are not always on the surface 



Kjoben. (1851), 317. — Allem. Mevist. Brazil. of the receptacle, but some glomerules pene- 



(Jan. 1860), 8, c. ic. — Miq. Mart. Fl. Bras. trate within the cavity of the receptacle. 



Urtic. 139, t. 46-50. — Walp. Ann. i. 650. Hence later the receptacle deeply covers some 



^ App. to Tuck Nar. (1S18), 453 {Congo, 34) ; of the fruit; whence it seems, Pal.-Beav- 



Misc. Works (ed. Benn.), i. 138, 153. — Benn. vais, in his incorrect figure, took pains to de- 



Horsf. PI. Jav. Mar. 48. — Trec. Ann. Sc. Nat. pict a single seed-bearing berry within ; the 



ser. 3, viii. 146. flesh of the receptacle being very similarly con- 



^ Habit and leaves of Cecropia. sidered as the pericarp of the simple fruit. 



^ Spec. 1. M. Smithii R. Br. Herb. — Walp. 7 Spec. 1. M. arboreus P. -Beau v. loc. cit. — 



Ann. i. 667. Benn. Horsf. PI. Jav. Bar. 50. 



4 Fl. Oivar. et Ben. i. 16, t. 11, 12.— R. Br. « Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 85, t. 1, fig. 1-8. 



Congo, 449.— Enbl. Gen. n. 1867.— Trec. Ann. —Bur. Prodr. xvii. 283. 



