218 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



anthus)] male calyx 3-4-fid, imbricate. Stamens 3,4; filaments 

 short erect, connate at base; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Female 

 calyx thickly urceolate, small aperture at apex. Germen, etc., of 

 Myrianthus (or Conocephalus) \ style terminal exserted, clavate to 

 apex, here laterally sulcate and stigmatose. Fruit (small ?) capitate ; 

 seed . . . ? — Trees ; leaves alternate, simple or digitate (of Myrian- 

 thus) ; leaflets oftener serrate, whitish beneath, at base generally 

 more or less unequilateral ; male inflorescences ramose (of Myrian- 

 thus)] female flowers congregated in spurious capitules; capitules 

 few-flowered, contiguous only at base and stellately divaricate above.^ 

 {Trop, west. Africa?') 



lY. CANl^ABINEuE. 



64. Cannabis T» — Flowers dioecious ; male sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, opposite sepals, pendent ; filaments thin inserted round 

 centre ; anthers oblong subintrorse, finally marginate or extrorsely 

 rimose. Female calyx gamophyllous membranous cupular enfolding 

 the germen and persistent. Germen free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, descend- 

 ing campylotropous ; branches of terminal style 2, linear-elongate, 

 sometimes equal, everywhere papilloso-stigmatose. Fruit dry, 



^ A genus diflfering from Myrianthus only in 2. Clarisia (E. et Pay. Frodr. 128, t. 28), a 

 the nature of its female inflorescence, in other very douhtful genus, sometimes made a sub- 

 respects closely allied. genus of Myrica (Endl. Gen. n. 1839 a), some- 



2 Spec. 1, 2 (3, ex Bur.). Walp. ^/m. i. 653. times enumerated as an independent genus 

 Of the types imperfectly known, and, doubt- among the Myricacece (Lindl. Veg. Eingd. 256 ; 

 fully, to be referred to this series (or to the -^C DC. Prodr, xvi. sect. ii. 155), from a some- 

 preceding ?), a few words may be permitted what rude figure of the male inflorescence, it 

 respecting the 2 following : — seems rather to belong to this order and perhaps 



1. Stenochasma (Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii to the series Artocarpece ; staminal filaments 



292), enumerated among the Artocarpece^ has very similar not incurved in bud. From de- 



dioecious flowers. Males. . . . ? Females said scription, male amentum filiform, marked with 



to be dense on axillary 2-nate pedunculate a spiral furrow, covered with oblong imbricate 



globose receptacle, subpedicillate. Perigonium scales, l^florous. Perianth 0, imless the scales 



utriculose, perforated at incrassate fleshy axile may be called such. Corolla 0. Staminal fila- 



apex, membranous at base. Germen 1-ovu- ments 2, each inserted within a scale short erect 



late ; ovule inserted above the middle (whence filiform. Anthers small sub-4-angular. Female 



agreeing neither with the Urticece nor with flowers in racemes 2-nate. Perianth proper (?) 



the Conocephaka). Style enclosed very short; inferior very small squamose; scales 4-6, orbi- 



stigma semiglobose depressed puberulous, sub- cular-subpeltate, affixed to pedicel by a disk, 



exserted. Achene (dark coloured) somewhat crenate at margin. Corolla 0. Germen ovate, 



ovoidly compressed, enclosed in subbaccate 4, 5- Styles 2, subulate and patent ; stigmas acute 



angled obpyramidal perigonium ; seed inserted simple. Drupe ovate ; seed subrotund. Spe- 



near apex ; cotyledons of (immature) embryo cies 2 arborescent (char, ex E. and Pav. Affi- 



equal elliptical plano-convex ; radicle very nity perhaps (?) with Fsetidosorocca, Sahagunia. 



short. (MiQ.). and Soaresia.). 



