OLMACEM. 19? 



bricate or sub-valvate. Stamens 3,4; anthers short introrse ; cells 

 subglobular rimose. Female calyx urceolate, at apex shortly or very 

 shortly 4-dentate, sometimes hence fissous. Gynsecium sessile ; 

 germen 1-ovulate; style erect, presently divided into 2 branches, 

 equal or unequal (Jlkeanthus), filiform papillose. Fruit sessile, 

 enclosed by calyx, coriaceous fleshy ; albumen or scanty mucous ; 

 cotyledons of fleshy embryo equal or unequal ; radicle various. — 

 Trees or shrubs, often climbing, lactescent ; leaves petiolate, 2- 

 stichous, entire or serrate ; stipules lateral, deciduous ; inflorescence 

 axillary pedunculate, solitary or 2-uate, sometimes more ; the male 

 spikelike glomerulate ; female flowers capitate ; bracteate. 1 [Trop. 

 Asia and Oceania. 2 ) 



20 ? Cardiogyne Bue. 3 — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Brousso- 

 netia or Madura) ; calyx 4 -fid, in female flower oftener thicker, 

 imbricate. 4 Stamens 4, germen and other characters of Caturus ; 

 style simple very long, long-filiform and stigmatose above. Fruit 

 collected on globular syucarp ; drupes oo, nidulant; exocarp thin; 

 putameu crustaceous fragile. Seed exalbuminous ; coat thin mem- 

 branous ; cotyledons of incurved embryo foliaceous wide much 

 corrugate-conduplicate, one enveloping the other; radicle incumbent 



-on cotyledons thick conical, slightly curved, ascending. — A spinous 

 shrub ; leaves alternate petiolate entire penninerved ; inflorescence 

 of both sexes axillary 2-nate, shortly pedunculate or sessile ; recep- 

 tacle globose glomerulate ; flowers alternately free and bracteate cla- 

 vate rather thick, at apex truncately peltate, intermixed. 5 (Zanzibar. 6 1 



21 ? Plecospermum Tkec. 7 — Flowers dioecious (of Cardiogyne oi 

 Broussonetia), 4-merous ; male calyx 4-fld, imbricate ; female pierced 

 at apex with very small aperture 4-denticulate. Syncarp globose 

 fleshy enclosing free fertile and sterile achenes; embryo of ex- 

 albuminous seed fleshy ; cotyledons conduplicate covering ascending 

 radicle. Other characters of Broussonetia (or Madura). — A spinous 



1 A genus very near to Broussonetia, Altaian- 4 The female sepals very often enclose in the 



thus intervening, and also to Madura, notwith- very thick substance of the parenchyma 2 cells- 



standing the calyx of the latter is formed of free (of a sterile anther '() filled with a yellow powder, 



folioles. Allœanthus is (not without right) a The same is more rarely the case in the male 



section of Madura, according to Miq. Ft. Ind.- calyx of some very near genera of Plecospermum. 



Bat. i. p. ii. 280. The sepals thus call to mind those of the Oxa- 



1 Spec. 2. 3. Hook, and Arn. Beech. Voy. lideos, though thicker. 



Bot. 214 (Trophis).— Bl. Bijdr. 488 {Moras) ; 5 A genus to be reduced perhaps to a section 



Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 75 (Malasia). — Miq. loc. cit. of Cudrania. 



281 (Cephalotrophis).—M. Arg. DC. Prodr. xv. « Spec. 1. C. africana Bur. loc. cit. 



sect. ii. 906 (Alchornia).— Benth. Fl. Austral. » Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 124, t. 4, fig. 121- 



vi. 180 (Ma/aisia). 126.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 233. 



5 Prodr. xvii. 232. 



