336 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



at the apex ; antliers extrorsc ; colls lougitudinally rimose. Female 

 calyx 5 -partite. Petals 5, alternate, slightly longer, at apex acnte or 

 obtnse pubescent ciliolate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous sterile ; fila- 

 ments very short erect ; anthers basiflxed extrorse effete. Germen 

 inserted in pateriform central receptacle, free long exserted elon- 

 gate-cylindrical straight or arched, produced to a point at the apex, 

 surrounded at base with papillose orbicular disk; cell 1, 2-ovulate; 

 ovules 2-nate collaterally descendent ; micropyle introrse superior ; 

 funicle incrassate. Fruit (nearly of Kummeriœ) drupaceous elliptical 

 anticipiti- compressed obscui-ely ribbed ; flesh scanty ; putameu thin 

 hard ; one seed rudimentary, the other perfect pendulous ; albumen 

 fleshy copious ; cotyledons of minute subapical oblique embiyo 

 obovate shorter than conical radicle. — A glabrous tree ; ^ leaves 

 alternate petiolate-entire membranous or subcoriaceoiis penninerved ; 

 primary nerves parallel ; flowers crowded axillary or terminating short 

 axillary branches bearing i or 2 leaves at the base, and disposed in 

 many times ramified cymiferous racemes. [Malacca.") 



V. PHYTOCEENE^. 



GO. Phytocrene Wall. — Flowers diœcious ; male perianth 

 (corolla) 3, 4-partite ; leaves valvate, more or less coherent at base, 

 finally solute and slightly recurved at apex. Stamens same in 

 number alternate ; filaments free inserted round stipitate-cylindrical 

 clavate and hispid rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers introrse ; cells 2, 

 parallel discrete, inserted on margin of rectangular connective, longi- 

 tudinally rimose, finally subversatile. Parts of female perianth 3, 4-val- 

 vate, more or less persistent. Staminodes same in number or 1, 2, very 

 small dentiform alternate. Germen sessile, villose at base, 1-locular ; 

 style of germen subequal thick erect, cylindrical or subclavate villose, 

 hollow tubular or very narrow infiindibuliform, at apex stigmatose 

 unequally capitate, 2-4-lobed or sub-2-labiate. Ovules in cell 2-nate 

 collaterally descendent ; micropyle introrse superior. Drupes co , col- 

 lected in large globose capitule, villose or echiuate ; spines inserted in 

 hollows of putamen, finally solute ; putamen hard ligneous, replete at 

 apex with resinous vésicules, at base 1-locular, l-spermous ; mesocarp 



> Habit that of some Artocarpns. ' Spec. 1. G. myrianthea H. Bn. loc. cit. 



