VLMACEM. 205 



scanty ; putaraen thin fragile. Seed descending ; albumen scanty ; 

 cotyledons of curved embryo oblong-elliptical subfoliaceous ; radicle 

 accumbent descending. — Lofty trees; leaves opposite wide, 3-lobed ; 

 stipules 2 on each side, interpetiolate, deciduous ; syncarps globose 

 axillary. 1 ( Guiana. 2 ) 



37. Cudrania Tréc. 3 — Flowers dioecious ; sepals 4, free, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 4, opposite, sometimes at base coherent with sepals, 

 inserted around acute rudiment of gynrecium. Germen and other 

 characters of Artocarpus ; style branches 2, very unequal ; one very 

 short denticuliform ; the other slender elongate, at apex filiform 

 stigmatose. Syncarp globose, composed of crustaceous, ovately 

 lenticular, 2-valvate capsules, with persistent stipate sepals ; testa of 

 amphitropous seeds thin ; albumen flesby ; cotyledons of plicate 

 embryo rather thick contortuplicate subequal ; radicle superior long. 

 Spinous shrubs, oftener climbing ; leaves alternate entire petiolate, 

 oblong or obovate, acuminate or mucronate ; stipules 2 axillary, 

 connate at base, deciduous ; flowers capitate ; capitules globose 

 (glomeruliferous) pedunculate axillary, 2-nate. (South east. Asia, 

 Malaya, Australia, New Caledonia.*) 



38. Helianthostylis H. Bn. 5 — Flowers dioecious (or monoecious ?) 

 male calyx obconical membranous, imbricate, 4-fid. Stamens 4, 

 opposite lobes of calyx ; filaments short erect, finally elongately 

 exserted, at base connate with each other and with stipes of 

 gynseoium ; anthers short, extrorsely rimose ; connective sub- 

 orbicular. Germen sterile effete, produced upwards to a style very 

 long exserted accrescent and very slender somewhat hispid. Female 

 flower ... ? Fruit globose ; pericarp thin fragile, externally scabrid ? 

 testa of subglobose seed thin ; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous 

 embryo 2, plano-convex or sometimes 3, equi-angular fleshy ; radicle 

 superior very short. — A tree (?) ; leaves alternate (2-stichous ?) 

 petiolate ; stipules small connivent ; 7 flowers axillary capitate ; 

 capitules globose, shortly pedunculate, involucrate with few bracts s 

 at base. (North. Brazil. 9 ) 



1 A genus of Bomewhat uncertain place from {Madura), 290 (Cudranus). — Thw. Enum. 



the male flowers and stamens being unknown, Plant. Zeyl. 262 (Cudranus). — Bl. Mus. Lugd,- 



but much resembling Madura. Bat. ii. 83 (Madura). — Bur. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 



- Spec. 1. v. 2 (Bur.). 5, xi. 377 (Cudranus). — Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 



3 Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 122, t. 3, fig. 76- 178. 



85. — Bur. Prodr. xvii. 285. — Cudranus Rumph. s Adansonia, xi. 299. 



Eerb. Amboiu. v. 22, t. 15, 16. 6 Dark coloured. 



4 Spec. 5, 6. W. Spec. iv. 735 (Trophis). — ' Scars transverse, not confluent. 

 Roxn. Cat. Wall. (Batis).— Mm. PL Juur/h. 44; 8 Spec. 1. U. Sprucei H. Bn. loc. cit. 



1. Verz. ii. 90 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 280 9 Prodr. 129, t. 28 ; Fl. Per. 257.— Endl. Gen. 



