ULMACEJE. 215 



lodons of straight exalbuminous embryo thick ; radicle short superior. 

 — Lactifluous trees ; branches marked with linear scars of fallen 

 stipules; leaves alternate, entire, lobed or digitately divided, glabrous 

 or clothed with various indumentum , costulately venose and venulate ; 

 stipules connate in one clothing the top of the ramule ; scars linearly 

 annular ; flowers collected in compound or decompound cymes on 

 peduncle oftener 2-nate ; males small. {Trop. South America. 1 ) 



58. Conocephalus Bl. 2 — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx tubular 

 or turbinate, 4-dentate or 4-fid or more rarely unequally or subequally 

 2 -partite, valvate or at apex slightly imbricate. Stamens 4, or very 

 rarely 2, oppositisepalous ; filaments erect in bud, subequal to calyx, 

 complanate, centrally inserted around rudiment of gynœcium ; 

 anthers short exserted; cells oftener free at base, introrsely, laterally 

 or extrorscly promiscuously rimose. Female calyx tubular, 4-fid. 

 Germen free ; style terminal, apex capitate, or laterally oblong 

 stigmatose ; ovule basilar erect orthotropous or suborthotropous ; 

 micropyle superior. Fruit enclosed by persistent calyx, dry char- 

 taceous, longitudinally 2-valved. Seed ovoid ; hilum basilar or 

 sublateral ; testa membranous ; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous 

 embryo fleshy plano-convex; radicle superior. — Climbing shrubs; 

 leaves alternate, entire, long-petiulate ; stipules axillary connate in one 

 semiamplexicaul, deciduous ; scars annular; flowers axillary capitate ; 

 capitule (glomeruliferous) compound cyniose ; females oftener solitary. 

 [Trop, south. Asia and Oceania? 1 ) 



59. Coussapoa Aubl. 4 — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Concce- 

 phalus) ; male calyx gamophyllous, subcylindrical or turbinate, im- 

 bricate ; mouth 2-3-fid or dentate, sometimes partite. Stamens 

 2, central ; filaments free or connate in erect filiform or complanate 

 column ; anthers free, extrorse, 2-rimose or connate in one 4-locular 

 and terminal ; cells longitudinally rimose. Female flower, etc., of 



1 Spec, about 20. Pcepf. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et 1203. — Gaudich. Toy. Bonite Sot. t. 96.— Mia. 



S)nc. ii. 29, t. 141.— Kl. Zinncea, xx. 526. — PL June/It, 43 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 283 ; Suppl. 



Mm. Mart. Fl. Bras. TJrlic. 121, t. 36-41.— i. 171, 416, 417.— Teysm. et Binn. in Nat. 



Walp. Ann. i. 6.56. Tijdaehr. xxvii. 26.— W alp. Ann. i. 654. 



- Bijdr. 483.— Endl. Gen. n. 1S69.— Tkéc. 4 Guian. ii. 955, t. 362, 363.— J. Gen. 406.— 

 Ann. Sec. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 87, t. 2, fig. 41-51. Lamk. Diet. ii. 160.— Benn. Eorsf. PI. Jam. Bar. 

 Buk. Prodr. xvii. 284. 49. — Endl. Gen. n. 1866. — Trec. Ann. Se. Nat. 



3 Spec. 7, 8 (about 10, Bi-r.). Benn. Sorsf. sér. 3, viii. 92, t. 1, fig. 23-40.— Bur. Prodr. 



PL Jao. Bar. 47, t. 12.— Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. xvii. 2S4. 



