TJLMAOEM. 193 



Trees ; leaves alternate, widely serrate ; stipules lanceolate mem- 

 branous, deciduous; flowers in ramose glomeruliferous spikes." 

 (fcz-M, Cuba.') 



II. MOEE^. 



12. Moms T. — Flowers monoecious or dioecious, 4-merous. 

 Sepals 4, decussately imbricate, persistent and accrescent around 

 fruit, closely connivent and finally succulent. Stamens 4, opposite 

 sepals (in female flower rudimentary or generally 0) ; filaments 

 inserted under short thick rudiment of gynsecium, free, inflexed in 

 bud, finally straight or recurved ; anthers introrse ; cells 2, reniform, 

 rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) sessile, 1-locular; 

 style terminal short, afterwards divided into 2 subulate papilliferous 

 branches; ovule in cell 1, inserted under apex, descending, oampy- 

 lotropous; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous, en- 

 closed by succulent sepals ; exocarp thin, thicker at margin ; putamen 

 testaceous. Seed descending ; testa brittle ; albumen fleshy ; coty- 

 ledons of incurved embryo oblong ; radicle ascending long eylindrico- 

 conical. — Trees or shrubs ; juice milky or opal ; leaves alternate, 

 2-stichous, entire or dentate or lobed, unequal at base ; stipules 

 lateral free, caducous ; flowers axillary or subaxillary ; inflorescence 

 solitary stipitate ; receptacle in males elongate subcylindrical, on 

 one or both sides somewhat compressed longitudinally ; glomerules 

 crowded, more numerous at margin and wanting on one or both 

 surfaces (hence naked sulciform) ; female receptacle shorter ovate or 

 oblong, also glomeruliferous ; drupes with succulent calyces finally 

 united in syncarpia. (All trop. and subtrop. regions.) See p. 144. 



13. Ampalis Boj.^ — Flowers nearly of Mortis, 4-merous ; perianth 

 in male flower subvalvate, but in female decussately imbricate, 

 persistent and growing succulent in syncarpia around fruit and 

 stamens involute (of Morus). Germen compressed ovate ; placenta 

 thin or sometimes {Pachytrophe *) thicker and more or less promi- 

 nent, 1 -ovulate. Fruit drupaceous; flesh scanty; albumen of 



• A genus hitherto generally excluded from 2 Spec. 2. Gribeb. Cat. PI. Cub. 67. — Walp. 



Ulmece on account of the number of stamens Ann. i. C40. 



(Pl. Prodr. xvii. 152). But 10 stamens are ^ Bort. Maur. 291.— Endl. Gm. 1375.— Bur. 



oftener observed in Soloptelea. AmpeUeera, in Prodr. xvii. 250. 



our opinion, is certainly Celtidea, * BvR./oc. eit. 234. 



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