ULMACEJE. 195 



leaves alternate, entire or rarely lobate, stipules, dioecious and 

 araentous, hence glomerulate flowers and other characters of Morus 

 or Ampalis.^ {Australia, Polynesia}) 



lfi. Trophis P. Br. 3 — Flowers dioecious; male calyx 4-partite 

 or 4-fid, valvate. Stamens 4 (of Moms), inserted under obpyra- 

 midal rudiment of gynsecium. Female calyx perigynous, inserted 

 in margin of concave cupular- saclike receptacle subovoid and 

 gamophyllous, at contracted apex 4dobed or 4-dentate. Germen 

 semi-inferior ; style, cell and descending ovule of Morus (or Ampalis). 

 Fruit semi-inferior or inferior, crowned with persistent calyx, 

 drupaceous ; putamen thin parchment-like. Seed sub-globular ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo hemispherical fleshy ; radicle 

 conical very small superior. — Lactescent unarmed trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate, 2-stichous, petiolate; stipules lateral small, cadu- 

 cous ; flowers glomerulate ; inflorescence spikelike or racemiform 

 glomerulate ; racemes (spurious) simple or compound. (Both trop. 

 Americas.*) 



17. Broussonetia Vent. 5 — Flowers dioecious (nearly of 3Iorus) ; 

 male sepals 4, free or connate at base, valvate. Stamens 4 ; fila- 

 ments elastically exsilient ; anthers short introrse. 6 Female calyx 

 membranous obconico-urceolate, denticulate at apex. Germen stipi- 

 tate, 1-locular ; style lateral to apex subulate-filiform exserted 

 stigmatose ; micropyle of descending ovule extrorsely superior. 

 Fruit stipitate to elongate gynophore girt at base with persistent 

 calyx, drupaceous ; mesocarp very thin at both faces, at base and 

 margins on both sides thick fleshy ; putamen crustaceous or osseous, 

 finally free from exocarp ; 7 testa of descending seed thin ; cotyledons 



1 A genus of doubtful autonomy and very Wright. Mem. Amer. Acad. sér. 8 (1860), 173 ; 



probably hereafter to be reduced to a section of t'l. Brit. W.-Ind. 153 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 58.— 



Ampalis. Schltl, Linntca, vi. 357. — Liebm. Tidensk. 



■: Spec. 1. very various in form, as P. Bruno- Selfthr, Kjoben. (1851), ii. 315, 335 (Sorocea). — 



niana Bur. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, xi. 372. — Seem. Bonplandia, v. 74. 



Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 181. — Morns Brunoniana 5 Tabl. iii. 547.' — Spach, Suit, à Buffon, xi. 49. 



Endl. Atakta, t. 32.— M. pendulina F. Bauer, — Endl. Gen. n. 1858. Pater, Fam. Nat. 



Ic. ined. PI. Norfolk, t. 186, Endl. Prodi: Fl. 172.— Bur. Prodi: xvii. 223.— Papyrius Poir. 



Norfolk. 40. — Streblus Brunoniana F. Muell. Diet. v. 3. — LAMK.JK. t. 762.— Stromadendrum 



Frag. vi. 192. — S. pendulina F. Muell. lac. eit. Pav. Herb, ex Bur. Adansonia, x. 734. 



'■' Hist. Jam. 357. — L. Syst. n. 1103 (part.). — 6 Pollen granular in B. papyrifera spherical 



J. Gen. 442 (part.).— Pom. Diet. viii. 122 (part.). with 2 thick polar papillas. (H. Mohl. Ann. Sc. 



— En*dl. Gen. n. 1871 (part.). — TrÉc. Ann. Nat. sér. 2, iii. 313. 



Sc.Nat. sér. 3, viii. 146.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 252. ' And by the elasticity of the fork formed 



Bueephulon Plum. PL Amer. (ed. Burm.), 55. — from the thick margins of the sarcocarp after 



— L. Spec. ed. 3, 1661. the rupture of its surfaces projected to a less or 



« Spec. 2, 3. Sw. Oh. yi2.~~W.Spte. ii. 733. greater distance. (Cfr. H. Bn. Compt. Rend Iii. 



—Mia. Mart. Fl. B'as. Urtic. 159.— Griseb PI. 19 ; Adansonia, i. 226, t. S. 



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