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sometimes scantily fleshy, high produced above the putamen. Seed 

 subpendulous ; coat thin subpulpy; albumen fleshy corrugate-mul- 

 tilobed, granulate outside ; radicle of embryo, scarcely shorter than 

 the albumen, short conical superior; cotyledons foliaceous large, 

 rather flat or much sigmoid-contortuplicate, digitincrved at base. 

 High-climbing volubile shrubs often villous or hispid ; wood porous 

 filled with water; branches often aculeate; leaves alternate petio- 

 late, entire, sinuate or palmatilobed, 3-7-nerved at base, usually 

 reticulate veined ; flowers capitate small ; each involucrate with 

 cupular epicalyx at base, outwardly densely villous or rather hispid, 

 often straight truncate at apex, outwardly 2-5-lobed or more rarely 

 6-10-lobed (" calyx") ; capitules axillary, the supra-axillary or lateral 

 springing from the wood ; the female solitary larger pedunculate ; 

 the crowded globose or ovoid male densely packed in much ramified 

 elongated racemes ; secondary twigs each few-flowered or oftener 

 œ-flowered, sometimes produced beyond the flowers to a sterile brac- 

 tiform point. [Troj). Asia and Oceania.) See p. 282. 



61. Miquelia Meissjst.^ — Flowers diœcious ; leaves of male peri- 

 anth 4, 5, sometimes coherent in bud, valvate. Stamens 4, 5, alter- 

 nate ; filaments short inserted round rudiment of gynteceura ; anthers 

 erect introrse ; cells 2, discrete at base, rimose. Female perianth 

 thicker ; leaves 4, 5, valvate. Staminodes 4, 6, alternate, tongue- 

 shaped, very short. Germen sessile ; style short or subnil, soon 

 dilated into a concave or thick discoid stigmatose cupule ; ovules 2 

 {Fhytocrcnes); the second often abortive. Drupe oblong compressed, 

 surrounded at base by perianth ; mesocarp scanty ; putamen crustace- 

 ous, outwardly and often inwardly rugose or verrucose ; coat of de- 

 scendent seed thin ; albumen fleshy outwardly rugulose ; radicle of 

 embryo nearly equal to albumen short superior; cotyledons elliptical or 

 ovate flat rather thickly foliaceous, digitinerved at base. — High scan- 

 dent volubile shrubs ; wood porous ; leaves alternate membranous, 

 entire or dentate, digitinerved at base ; flowers umbellate ; peduncle 

 with 1,2 superposed supra-axillary buds, 1-cephalous, fasciculate or 



' Gen. 152; Comm. 100.— E. Br. Beun.Pl. —Jenkinsia Griff. Ca/c. Jouni. iv. 231, t. 12; 

 Jav. Itai: 2iô. — 'EsDh. Gen. n. i5S4.~Bh. Mum- Nutiil. 370, t. 687. — Lindl. Veç/. King. 531 

 •phia, iv. 37.— B. H. Oen. 354, n. 32.-11. Bn. {Tliymclficere). 

 Adansonia, x. 262, 768; in DC. Prodr. xvii. 13. 



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