222 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



petiolate, penninervecl clenticulate ; flowers in axillary and terminal 

 racemes, 2-sexual. {North Brazil}) 



89. Angostyles Benth.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx valvate, 3-4-partite. Stamens go (about 20), inserted on elevated 

 receptacle ; filaments central short, l-adelphous at base ; anthers 

 2-dymous ; connective wide 3-angular ; cells free among themselves, 

 widely aduate to connective, divergent at base. Female calyx 5- 

 partite, quincuncially imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate ; 

 style (much larger than germen) thick obconical ; branches 3, deeply 

 2-partite ; lobes hence 6 inwardly wide papillose-carinate.^ Fruit 

 capsular, 3-coccous ; seed . . . ? — A tree ; leaves alternate, collected 

 at summit of twigs, 2-stipulate, penniaerved denticulate ; below at 

 base marked on both sides with 4-8 glands. Flowers cymose- 

 ra'cemose on wood of branches of preceding year ; the female solitary 

 in axils of leaves of branches of the present year. {North Brazil}) 



90. Fragariopsis A. S. H.^- — Flowers monoecious ; male calyx 

 valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens cc, alternately seriate, sometimes few 

 remote ; anthers extrorse subsessile in hemispherical glandular 

 receptacle ; cells divergent deflexed at base, longitudinally rimose. 

 Female calyx 4-partite. Germen sessile ; cells 4, alternating with 

 sepals, 1 -ovulate ; style (much larger than germen) thickly obovoid, 

 obpyramidal or subcuboid, shortly 4-lobate at apex ; cells cruciate 

 radiant, inwardly sulcate and stigmatiferous. Fruit globose or sub- 

 cuboid, carnose-suberous, 1-4-locular ; seed . . . ? — Scandent shrubs; 

 leaves alternate stipulate penninerved ; base of limb 2-glanduliferous 

 above, glandular- denticulate at margin ; flowers in oppositifolious 

 or extra-axUlary racemes ; the inferior in the racemes female ; the 

 others male. {Brazil}) 



91. Plukenetia Plum.^ — Flowers monœcious apetalous (nearly of 



' Spec. 2. M. Arg. loc. cit.—U. Bn. in 6 A. S. H. Morphol. Veg. 426 (ex H. Bn. 



Adansoiiia, v. 307. JEuphorb. 497, t. 12, fig. 45 ; t. 13, fig. 29-36). 



2 In Hook. Journ. (1854), 328.— H. Bn. —M.. As.o. Prodr. m.—Accia, A.. &. a. np.eit. 



Euphorb. 498, t. 9, fig. 8-11.— M. Arg. Prodr. i99.—Sotr!/aiit/ie Kl. in Erie/is. Arch. (1841), 



767. 190, t. 9, fig, B.— Endl. Gen. n. 5784'. 



''^ The stylehenoe representing all the corolla, '' Spec. 1, 2. H. Bn. in Admisonia, v. 317. 



thick tubolar-infundibuliform 6-lobed above. 7 Nov. Gen. Amer. 47, t. 13; le. t. 226. — 



< Spec. 1. A. loïKjifolia Benth. loc. clI.— 'B.. L. Gen. n. 1080.— J. Geii. 392.— Lamk. /«. t. 



Bn. in Adamoma, v. 318. 788.— Poir. Bict. vi. 449 ; Suppl. v. 20.— Endl. 



