(J LM ACE JE. 217 



61. Musanga R. Biu — Flowers dioecious; calyx tubular longer 

 or shorter obconical, entire at apex and there truncate in males ; 

 mouth orbicular, in females perforated by very small aperture. 

 Stamen 1, inserted at bottom of calyx; filament erect; anther 

 terminal, facing outward ; cells 2, longitudinally rimose. Germen 

 erect enclosed free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, basilar erect orthotropous ; 

 micropyle superior, at apex stigmatose scarcely incrassate. 

 Fruit covered with persistent calyx rather ovoidly compressed 

 subligneous ; seed erect ; embryo . . . ? — A tree •? leaves digitate ; 

 stipules wide foliaceous coriaceous, covering top of youDger ramule, 

 deciduous ; male flowers in very compound capituliferous racemes ; 

 capitules globular small, intermixed with bracts peltate at apex ; 

 females glomerulate on thick oblong receptacle. [Trop. west. Africa?) 



62. Myrianthus P.-Beauv. 4 — Flowers dioecious ; males 4- 

 merous, 4-androus (of Conocephalus) ; filaments sometimes variously 

 connate; anthers 2-locular, 2-rimose. Female flowers of Mu- 

 sanga or Conocephalus ; germen free 1-locular ; ovule basilar erect 

 orthotropous; 5 style clavate to stigmatose apex. Syncarp ovoid 

 or ellipsoid wide and covering co (dry ?) fruits ; seed exalbumi- 

 nous. Other characters of Conocephalus. — A moderate-sized tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate digitate ; leaflets (to 6) lanceolate unequal, 

 white beneath ; stipules wide (of Cecropia) ; scar obliquely linear ; 

 glomerules of flowers oo ; males congregated along axes of ramose 

 inflorescence ; females on subglobose capitule. 6 (Trop. west. Africa?) 



63. Dicranostachys Tréc. 8 — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Myri- 



( Tat ■itiim).— Plukn, Almag. 146, t. 242, fig. 5 Sc. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 86. — Bcr. Prodr. xvii. 284 



(Fiats). — P. Br. Jam. Ill (Coilotapalies).— (not Nutt.). 

 Jacq. Obs. ii. 12, t. 46; Stirp. Am. Pict. 126, t. 6 Coat 2-plicate. 



262, fig. 66. — Aubl. Gtiian. ii. 894. — W. Spec. 6 la the axil of single leaves flowers are ob- 



iv. 651. — Si'iiexg. Syst. iii. 809. — Kl. Linnaa, served with superior conical foliaceous bud and 



xx. 530. — Garcke, Linneea, xxii. 70. — A. Hun. 2 female inferior stipitate inflorescences, girt on 



P. S. Cuba, xi. 222.— Griseb. Ft. Brit. W.- both sides with scars of stipules. All the 



Ind. 152. — Liebm. Vidensk. Selsk. Shrift. female flowers are not always on the surface 



Kjoben. (1851), 317. — Allem. Reviat. Brazil, of the receptacle, but some glomerules pene- 



(Jan. 1860), 8, c. ic. — Mia. Mart. Ft. Bras. trate within the cavity of the receptacle. 



Urtic. 139, t. 46-50. — Walp. Ann. i. 650. Hence later the receptacle deeply covers some 



1 App. to Tuok Nor. (1818), 453 {Congo, 34); of the fruit; whence it seems, Pal.-Beau- 

 Misc. Works (ed. Benn.), i. 13S, 153. — Benn. vais, in his incorrect figure, took pains to de- 

 hors/'. Pi. Jan. Jiar. 48. — Tréc. Ann. Sc. Nat. pict a single seed-bearing berry within ; the 

 sér. 3, viii. 146. flesh of the receptacle being very similarly con- 



■ Habit and leaves of Cecropia. sidered as the pericarp of the simple fruit. 



3 Spec. 1. 31. Smithii E. Br. Herb. — Walp. 7 Spec. 1. M. arborais P.-Beauv. lot. cit. — 



Ann. i. 667. Benn. Hors/. PL Jav. Itar. 50. 



* Ft. Oicar. et Pen. i. 16, t. 11, 12.— R. Br. 8 Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 85, t. 1, fig. 1-8. 



Congo, 449. — Endl. Gen. n. 1867. — Tuée. Ann. — Buk. Prodr. xvii. 283. 



