338 NATURAL IllSTORY OF PLANIS. 



shortly racemose ; each pedicel of female flower short rather thick ; 

 of the male much elongated filiform/ articulate at base aud there 

 furnished with a short- 3-5-fld epicalyx. (l^rop. Asia and Oceania?) 



G2. Sarcostigma Wight aud Arn.* — Flowers dioecious ; leaves of 

 perianth 4, ^>, subpetaloid, valvate, fiually patent or reflected. Sta- 

 mens 4, 5, alternate ; filaments short ; anthers iutrorse suhversatile. 

 Germen (in long conoid efl^ete male flower) 1-locular, 2-ovulate, sui'- 

 rouuded by sterile staminodes ; style very short thick depressed 

 globose or obliquely reniform stigmatiferous. Fruit drupaceous, sur- 

 rounded at base with persistent perianth ; flesh scanty ; putamen 

 subligneous ; testa of seed thin ; cotyledons of fleshy thick exalbu- 

 minous embryo plano-convex, sheathing at base a short thick supe- 

 rior straight radicle. — Scandent volubile shrubs ; wood rather hard ; 

 leaves alternate entire very much reticulate- veined ; flowers in elon- 

 gated spikes, and in them interruptedly glomerate or fasciculate j 

 pedicels short, articulate at base, inserted in more or less pro- 

 minent"callus ; bracts 4, 5, connate in short calyciform^ subentireor 

 unequally-dentate involucre inserted rather remotely from perianth 

 and at base of pedicel. [Trop. Asia and Oceania?) 



63. Natsiatum Ham." — Flowers diœcious ; leaves of perianth 

 4-6, valvate. Stamens 4 6, alternate (rudimentary in female flower); 

 filaments short dilated inserted below rudiment of emarginate or ob- 

 scurely lobed gynœceum ; glands same in number between these ; 

 anthers introrse ; cells rimose ; connective produced beyond cells into a 

 short (transparent) point. Germen sessile villous, surrounded at base 

 with 4, 5, oppositipetalous simple or 2-nate glands, 2-ovulate ; style 

 short apical ; lobes 2, 3, linear divergent ; uncqual-capitellate stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. Drupe unequally-ovate rather compressed ; flesh 

 scanty ; putamen crustaceous ; coat of descendent seed thin ; albumen 

 fleshy ; radicle of subequal embryo superior conical ; cotyledons orbi- 



' " CoroUarum ttibis" (Auctt.). Geii. 354, n. 33. — H. Bn". AdaiisuHta, iii. 365; x. 



- " Calj'ce" (Atjctt.). 282; Prodi: xvii. 15. 



'^ Spec, about 5. Wight, III. ii. 62 {Pln/to- ' " Calycem " (Auctt.). 



OYHc).— Wall. Cat. n. 124 {Araliacea).—Ùm. « Spec. 3. R. Bk. Jleiiii. PL Jar. Par. 241, t. 



Fl. Iml.-lSat. i. p. i. 797.— Bl. Mus. Ltiijd.. Bat. 47.— Mm, Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 795. 



i. 42, t. 3.— Bedi). Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 211, ' ' Jfall. Ciit.n.ii'S'I.—ARji. Edinl/. New Phil. 



t. 23. Journ. xvi. 314.— Exdl. Gen. n. 4697.— B. H. 



■> Edinh. New Phil. Jiiwr». xiv. 299.— Endl. Gen. 355, n. 34.— H. Bn. Adansoma, iii. 367; 



Ocn. n. 2107'. — Mieks, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, x. 267; Prodr. xvii. 17. — Nansiatum Ham. (ex 



X. 116; Contrib. i. 103, t. 18 (part.).— B. H. R. Be. Penn. PI. Jnv. Sar. UH). 



