218 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



anthus)) male calyx 3-4-fid, imbricate. Stamens 3,4; filaments 

 short erect, connate at base; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Female 

 calyx thickly urceolate, small aperture at apex. Germen, etc., of 

 Myrianthus (or Conocephalus); style terminal exserted, elavate to 

 apex, here laterally sulcate and stigmatose. Fruit (small ?) capitate ; 

 seed ...?— Trees ; leaves alternate, simple or digitate (of Myrian- 

 thus); leaflets oftener serrate, whitish beneath, at base generally 

 more or less uneqnilateral ; male inflorescences ramose (of Myrian- 

 thus); female flowers congregated in spurious capitules; capitules 

 few-flowered, contiguous only at base and stellately divaricate above. 1 

 {Trop. west. Africa.-) 



IV. CANNABINE.E. 



G4. Cannabis T. — Flowers dioecious ; male sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, opposite sepals, pendent ; filaments thin inserted round 

 centre ; anthers oblong subintrorse, finally marginate or extrorsely 

 riniose. Female calyx gamophyllous membranous cupular enfolding 

 the germen and persistent. Germen free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, descend- 

 ing campylotropous ; branches of terminal style 2, linear-elongate, 

 sometimes equal, everywhere papilloso-stigmatose. Fruit dry, 



1 A genua differing from Myriantlms only in 2. Clarisia (R. et Pay. Prodr. 128, t. 28), a 

 the nature of its female inflorescence, in other very doubtful genus, sometimes made a sub- 

 respects closely allied. genus of Myrica (Endl. Gen. n. 1839 a), some- 



s Spec. 1, 2 (3, ex Btjr»). Walp. Ann. i. 653. times enumerated as an independent genus 

 Of the types imperfectly known, and, doubt- among the Myricaceœ (Lindl. Vtg. Kiiigd. 256 ; 

 fully, to be referred to this series (or to the — C. DC. Prodr. xvi. sect. ii. 155), from a some- 

 preceding ?), a few words may be permitted what rude figure of the male inflorescence, it 

 respecting the 2 following : — seems rather to belong to this order and perhaps 



1. Stenochasma (Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii to the series Artocarpcti ; staminal filaments 



292), enumerated among the Artocarpeic, has very similar not incurved in bud. From de- 



dicecious flowers. Males. ... ? Females said scription, male amentum filiform, marked with 



to be dense on axillary 2-nate pedunculate a spiral furrow, covered with oblong imbricate 



globose receptacle, subpedicillate. Perigonium scales, 1-florous. Perianth 0, unless the scales 



utriculose, perforated at incrassate fleshy axile may be called such. Corolla 0. Staminal fila- 



apex, membranous at base. Germen 1-ovu- ments 2, each inserted within a scale short erect 



late ; ovule inserted above the middle (whence filiform. Anthers small sub-t-angular. Female 



agreeing neither with the Urticea nor with flowers in racemes 2-nate. Perianth proper (?) 



the Conocephakce). Style enclosed very short ; inferior very small squamose; scales 4-6, orbi- 



stigma semiglobose depressed puberulous, sub- cular-subpeltate, affixed to pedicel by a disk, 



exserted. Achene (dark coloured) somewhat crenate at margin. Corolla 0. Germen ovate, 



ovoidly compressed, enclosed in subbaccate 4, 5- Styles 2, subulate and patent ; stigmas acute 



angled obpyramidal perigonium; seed inserted simple. Drupe ovate; seed subrotund. Spe- 



near apex; cotyledons of (immature) embryo cies 2 arborescent (char, ex R. and Pav. — Affi- 



equal elliptical plano-convex; radicle very nity perhaps (?) with Psetidosorocea, Sahagunia. 



short. (Mm.). aud Soaresia.). 



