808 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



convex conh'al receptacle sometimes 5-glancUilar at base ( Convecibea ') ; 

 filaments unequal ; the exterior shorter erect ; the interior elongate, 

 contorto- plicate or corrugate in bud ; some central antherlcss ; 

 anthers usually introrse or partly extrorse ; sometimes all extrorse 

 (Veeoncibea"-), short rimose, sometimes connective produced above 

 beyond cells. Female calyx S-lO-pai'tite, imbricate; the exterior or 

 all the leaves furnished outwardly at base with 2 thick glands 

 (like bracts). Clermen -S-locular ; ovules solitary ; styles thick 

 short erect, afterwards in three lobes, dilatato-reflexecl, stigmatiferous 

 2-dentate or 2-fid at apex. Fruit capsular, 3-agonal ; exocarp thick ; 

 cocci liguescent subcrustaceous, 1-sperraous ; seeds arillate at 

 micropyle. — Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate, stipulate subentire, 

 penninerved or at base S-.'D-plinerved, coriaceous reticulate-veined,- 

 stellate-pubescent below and fuscate-glandular-punctate ; flowers 

 terminal ; the male in ramified glomeruliferous spikes ; the female 

 in thicker spikes, sometimes glomeruliferous ; bracts laterally thickly 

 2-glanduliferous. {Trop. America^ Trop. W. Africa.^) 



63 ? Gavarretia H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Conceveiba); 

 the male unknown. Female calyx gamophyllous ui'ceolate strictly 

 encircling long germen truncate at mouth, entire or obscurely 4- 

 dentate, valvate. Germen 2-loeular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle 

 obturated ; style erect nearly from base 2-partite ; lobes 2-fid recurved 

 patent subulate papillose subequal to germen. Fruit . . . ? — A 

 tree (?) ; leaves alternate petiolate stipulate obovate, minutely glan- 

 duliferous on both sides below ; female flowers in terminal spikes ; 

 bracts 1 or few flowered, minutely 2-glandular at base." [North 

 Brazil.'') 



64. Macaranga Dup.-Th. — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx valvate. Stamens oo, sometimes few or subsolitary ; filaments 

 central situated on rather convex eglandular receptacle; anthers 



1 M. Arg. in Fhira (1864), 530. ? Spec. 1. G. termimUs H. Bn. loe. cit. 



2 M. Aeg. in Linnœa, xxxiy. 167. — -Concereiba terminalis M. Arg. in Linncea 



3 Spec. 4. Speeng. Syst. iii. 901 [Cmce- xxxiv. 167 ; Prodr. 897, n. 5. 



reibiim). — Benth. loc. cit. 332. — H. Bn. in s Gen. Nov. Maduy. 26, n. 88. — A. Juss. 



Adansonia, v. 221. Euphorb. 43.— Endl. Oen. n. 5789.— H. Bn. 



•■ Spec. 1. C. Africaiia M. Arg. in Flora JSuphor/t.iSl, t. 21, fig. 5-9. — M. Arg. Prodi: 987 



(1864), 530 ; Prodr. 897, n. 7. (incl. : Adeiioceras Reichb. f. et Zoll. Adisca 



^ In Adansonia, i. 185, t. 7, fig. 3, 4. Zoll. Mappa A. Juss. Mecostylis Kurz, Pachy- 



6 A genus reduced by Arg. to a section of stemon Bl. Panhopia Nor. Pseudo-Rottkra Zoll. 



Conceveiba. Whether suiEciently distinct ? ct Reichb. f.). — Baker, Fl. Slaurit, 306. 



