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female solitary pedunculate, axillary to leaves or lateral to base of 

 male spikes. {Trop. West Africa and America}) 



105. Ophthalmoblapton Allem.- — Flowers nionœcious ; male 

 calyx lu-ccolar, perforated depressed at apex. Stamen 1 , central 

 situated at bottom of calyx ; filament erect ; anthers apiculate, 2- 

 locular, longitudinally rimose. Female sepals 6, thick erect, 2-seriate 

 imbricated, unequal ; interior dorsally subcarinate or costate. Germen 

 3-locular ; cells opposite exterior sepals ; ovule solitary ; micropyle 

 extrorse superior, obtected by small obturator ; style erect columnar 

 incrassate, concave and inwardly stigmatiferous at apex; opening 

 shortly 3-agonal, 3-labiate. Capsule o-coccoiis ; seeds glabrous 

 exarillate ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo wide foliaceous, digiti- 

 nerved at base. — A large tree ; juice milky acrid ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate oblong-lanceolate, penninerved veined large dentate coria- 

 ceoiis ; stipules (as appears) small caducous ; buds of branches 

 terminal thick hemispherical resinous ; flowers^ in axillary subsimple 

 or ramified spikes ; inferior spikes few or 1, female rather larger; the 

 remaining superior male flowers solitary or glomerulate and spring- 

 ing from the buds of the rachis mouth-shaped from a transverse 

 aperture. {North Bragih^) 



106. Tetraplandra H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious ; male calyx 

 unequally-3-5-partitc, imbricated. Stamen 1, 4-locular, or with 2 

 anthers inserted at summit of central column dilated and articulate 

 at base, long adnate ; cells longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 5- 

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

 afterwards S-fid ; lobes simple recurved patulate, inwardly much 

 plumose-stigmatiferous. Fruit. . . . ? — A tree ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, 2-stipulate; limb at base 2 -glandular penninerved; flowers 

 monoecious; male amentiform- spicate, bracts scariose, 1-flowered, at 

 fii'st connate falsely involucrate ; female at apex of branches solitary 

 or few sessile, surrounded by few glandular bracts. {BrazilJ^) 



1 Spec. 2, 3. W. £;(«;». PI. Sort. Berol. 997. ^ Luteo-virescent. 



— Tuss. Fl. Ant. iv. 21. — Descourt. Fl. Ant. * Spec. 1. 0. macrophyllum Allem. !oc. Ht. — 



t. 124. — H. En. in Adansonia, i. 77 ; v. 344. Walp. Ami. iii. 361. 



2 In Gm)iabar. (dec. 1849), n. 4, o. ic. ; in s Eup/wrb. 549, t. 5, fig. 8-10 ; in Ann. Se. 

 Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, xiii. 119; in Sot. Zeit. Nat. eér. 4, ix. 200.— M. Arg. Pco*-. 1230. 

 (1854), 457. — lî.li. Eiip/wi-d. 5i1 ; in Adansonia, ^ Spec. 1. T. Leaiidri H. Bn. loc. cit.; in 

 xi. 126. — M. Arg. Prodr. 1155. Adansonia,v. 344. 



