NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
II. FLACOURTIA SERIES. 
Flacourtia (figs. 297-300) has unisexual flowers, dicecious or more 
rarely polygamous. The calyx is formed of from three to five 
sepals,’ imbricated or scarcely touching at their edges, sometimes 
very small in the female flowers. Within it the edge of the recep- 
tacle is swollen into a circular disk, continuous or lobed, or formed 
Flacourtia Cataphracta, 

Fra. 297. 
Flower (+). 
1 

Fra. 299. 
Fruit (2). 
Fra. 298. 
Longitudinal section of flower. 

Fia. 300. 
Longitudinal section of fruit. 
of independent glands, sometimes ciliate, generally more developed 
in the female flowers, where it may be surrounded by small stamens, 
often sterile. In the male flowers the stamens are very numerous, 
covering all the receptacle, surrounded by the cushion of the disk, 
each formed of a free filament and a short anther, extrorse, two-celled, 
versatile, dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.’ 
The gynæceum, of 

1 Commers. ex LHER., Stirp., 95, t. 30, 30 & 
(1784). — J., Gen, 291 (Flacurtia).—Porr., 
Dict., vi. 65; Suppl., iv. 653; ZU., t. 826.— 
DC., Prodr., i. 256.—Spacu, Suit, à Buffon, 
vi. 183.—TurRpP., in Dict. Sc, Nat., Atl., t. 150. 
—ENDL., Gen. n. 5079,—Ctos, in Ann. Se. 
Nat., sér, 4, viii. 212.— PAYER, Fam. Nat., 112. 
—BENTH. in Journ. Linn, Soc., v. Suppl, 86. 
—B. H., Gen., 128, n. 17.—Stigmarota LOUR., 
Fl. Cochinch., 633. 
? Often squamiform, ciliate. 
3 The connective is often 2-fid at its lower 
extremity (which becomes the upper after the 
reciprocating movement of the anther) and each 
of its branches, sometimes coloured, is applied 
against the back of one of the cells, 
