340 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



gynous perianth, accrescent in sacciform gamopliyllovis calyptra coni- 

 cal or long produced beyond pericarp in tube 4-dentate at apex, 

 style apiculate, outwardly rugose-setaceous ; mesocarp thin ; puta- 

 mcn outwardly rugose-setaceous ; mesocarp thin ; putamen out- 

 wardly foveolate, inwardly produced into woody prickles penetrating 

 the seed ; seed and embryo of Pyrenacantlia. — Scandent hirsute 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate simple petiolate penninerved ; female 

 flowers capitate or shortly spicate ; receptacle of capitule hard thick ; 

 capitules pedunculate lateral solitary or racemose ; bracts longer 

 than flower reflexed.^ ( Trop. Africa!^) 



66, lodes Bl.^ — Flowers diœcious ecalyculate {Gymniodes^) or of- 

 tener calyculate (Uviodes,^ Lasiodes ") ; lobes of gamophyllous perianth 

 sometimes (ZaszWe.^) surrounded at base by a dense crown of hairs, 3 or 

 oftener4, 5, valvate, outwardly densely villous, finally expanded, re- 

 flexed or revolute persistent round fruit. Stamens 3-5, alternate ; 

 filaments free, sometimes complanate, usually short, inserted below 

 rudiment of gynœceum; anthers straight [Lasiodes, Eviodes) or 

 more rarely (G!/mmodes) cochleate-reflexed, introrse, 2-rimose. Gor- 

 men inserted in dilated receptacle 2-ovulate ; obturator small ; style 

 sessile, afterwards thick discoid dilated or subreniform ; concave 

 radiate -co - sulcate at apex, more rarely laterally obovate excentric. 

 Drupe surrounded at base by perianth and sometimes by ealycule ; 

 mesocarp thin ; seed albuminous ; cotyledons of embryo rising one 

 half above the albumen, foliaceous; radicle short superior. — Shrubs; 

 usually high scandent, villous or tomentose ; leaves opposite entire 

 penninerved ; inflorescence pedunculate cymose-racemose ; male 

 flowers very ramose abundant; peduncles axillary or with 1, 2 buds 

 elevate-supra-axillary sometimes lateral to leaves, slender or thick 

 ligneous ; inferior often changed into tendrils ; flowers (small) villose- 

 ciliate articulate at summit of pedicel, or calyculate [Eviodes, 

 Lasiodes) ; epicalyx minute unequally-dentate, or ( Gymniodes) ecaly- 

 culate. [Asia, Oceania and Trop. Africa and Madagascar.^) 



67 ? Cardiopterys- Wall.* — Flowers hermaphrodite regular; 



' A genus differing mainly from allied 262 ; Prodr. 22. 



Pyrenacantlia liy inferior fruit, enclosed by * H. Bn. Prodr. 23, sect. 2. 



accrescent perianth. ' H. Jin. Adansonia, x. 267; Prodr, sect. 1. 



2 Spec. 2. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 359 {Phyto- « H. Bn. Adansonia, x. 268 ; Prodr. sect. 3. 

 crate ?). ' Spec. ad. 6 Pl. Hook. Jourii. v. 247 [Nan- 



3 mjdr. 29.— E. Br. in £ei:>i. PI. Jav. Bar. siatum).—'Ui(i. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 795.— Oliv. 

 243, t. 48.— Endl. G««. n. 4689.— B. H. Gen. Fl.Trop.Afr.i.35S.—'H.Bs.Adanso»ia,ix.l4,6. 

 355, n. 35.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 364; x. ' Cat. n. 8033.— Ltnd. liitrod. 82.— R. Br. 



