ULMACEM. 201 



4-fid, valvate. Stamens 4 ; filaments inflexed in bud finally erect ; 

 anthers introrse rotundate, 2-rimose. Germen very shortly stipi- 

 tate ; style lateral very short, afterwards 2-fid ; lobes pilose very 

 unequal; one very long filiform; the other (superposed to cell) very 

 short subulate; ovule iu cell 1, descending and inserted under 

 the apex ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit clothed at base 

 with persistent calyx, drupaceous ; putamen chartaceous ; exocarp 

 laterally and below much thicker and finally free from putamen. 

 Seed descending ; testa membranous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of 

 central embryo flat, curved at base ; radicle accumbent ascending 

 and subequal to cotyledons. — An herb, 1 sometimes shrubby at base ; 2 

 stem simjde or branched from base ; branches diffuse or ascending J 

 leaves alternate petiolate ; stipules lateral ; flowers axillary ; inflores- 

 cence androgynous pedunculate cymose-capitate solitary or 2-nate ; 

 female flowers terminal and dichotomous. {Japan, trop, and suhtrop. 

 Oceania?) 



29. Bleekrodea Bl. 4 — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Fatoua), 

 4-5-merous; male calyx valvate, 4-5-fid. Stamens 4-5; filaments 

 incurved at aestivation, inserted under rudiment of gynsecium ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-dymous. Female calyx urceolate or tubular, 

 4-dentate. Germen 1-ovulate ; style lateral ; branches 2, very long 

 setaceous stigmatose, equal or somewhat unequal. Fruit drupaceous, 

 enclosed by urceolate calyx ; exocarp unequal, thick below and 

 laterally hence to style ; putamen chartaceous. Seed subglobose, 

 sometimes flattened above ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 very unequal ; one very small squamiform ; radicle small incumbent. 

 — Unarmed lactescent shrubs ; leaves alternate, very shortly petio- 

 late, entire or dentate, sometimes Jobed, penninerved veined ; stipules 

 lateral ; flowers in axillary 1-2-sexual cymes ; the female solitary in 

 dichotomy of ramules ; the male numerous. [Borneo, Madagascar?) 



30. Sloetia Teysm. and Binn. 6 — Flowers monoecious (nearly of 

 Bleekrodea) ; male 3-merous ; calyx valvate. Sepals of female calyx 



1 Habit quite of Vrtica. folia Mia. Zoll. Vers. 103, 106. — F. globulifera 



2 Pubescence 2-morphous; hairs at base Mia. loc. cit. 



coarse. 4 Mm. Luyd.-Bat. ii. 87. t. 28. — Bur. Prodr. 



3 Spec. 1. F. japoniça Bl. Mus. Luyd-Bat. xvii. 254. 



ii. t. 38. — F. pilusa Gaudich. — F. aspera Gau- * Spec. 2. Bl. loc. cit. 



men.— F. subcordata Gaudich. — F. lanceolata 6 Tydsehr. Nat. Ver. (1863). — Kurz. in Jourii. 



Dcne. Serb. Timor. 492. — Urtica japonica Linn. Soc. viii. (1864), 168. t. 13. — Bun. Prodr 



Thunh. Fl. Jap. 70. — TJ. manillensit VValp. — xvii. 257. 



Par'wlaria aspera. Lescuen. — Fleurya yhchoma- 



