ULMAOE^, 195 



leaves alternate, entire or rarely lobate, stipules, dioecious and 

 amentous, hence glomerulate flowers and other characters of Morus 

 or AmpalisA {Justralia, Polynesia}) 



Ifi. Trophis P. Br.^ — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 4-partite 

 or 4'fid, valvate. Stamens 4 (of Morus), inserted under obpyra- 

 midal rudiment of gynsecium. Female calyx perigynous, inserted 

 in margin of concave cupular- saclike receptacle subovoid and 

 gamophyllous, at contracted apex 4-lobed or 4-dehtate. Germen 

 semi-inferior ; style, cell and descending ovule of Morus (or Ampalis), 

 Fruit semi-inferior or inferior, crowned with persistent calyx, 

 drupaceous; putamen thin parchment-like. Seed sub-globular; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo hemispherical fleshy ; radicle 

 conical very small superior. — Lactescent unarmed trees or shrubs; 

 leaves alternate, 2-stichous, petiolate; stipules lateral small, cadu- 

 cous ; flowers glomerulate ; inflorescence spikelike or racemiform 

 glomerulate ; racemes (spurious) simple or compound. (^Both trop. 

 Americas.*) 



17. Broussonetia Vent.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Morus) ; 

 male sepals 4, free or connate at base, valvate. Stamens 4 ; fila- 

 ments elastically exsilient ; anthers short introrse.® Female calyx 

 membranous obconieo-urceolate, denticulate at apex. Germen stipi- 

 tate, 1-locular ; style lateral to apex subulate-filiform exserted 

 stigmatose; micropyle of descending ovule extrorsely superior. 

 Fruit stipitate to elongate gynophore girt at base with persistent 

 calyx, drupaceous ; mesocarp very thin at both faces, at base and 

 margins on both sides thick fleshy ; putamen crustaceous or osseous, 

 finally free from exocarp '^ testa of descending seed thin ; cotyledons 



1 A genus of douttful autonomy and very Wiight. Mem. Amer. Acad. ser. 8 (1860), 173 ; 

 probably hereafter to be reduced to a section of FL Brit. W.-Ind. 153 ; Cat. PI. Cu6. 58.— 

 Ampalis. ScHLTL, Linniea, vi. 357. — Lieem. VidenaJc, 



2 Spec. 1. very various in form, as F. Bruno- Selfskr, Kjoben. (1851), ii. 315, 335 {Soroeea). — 

 niana BUB. Ann. So. Nat. s&. 5, xi. 372. — Seem. Bonplandia, v. 74. 



Behth. Fl. Austral, vi. 181. — Morus Bmnoniana ' Tail. iii. 547. — Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, xi. 49. 



Endl. Atakta, t. 32. — M. pendulima F. Bauer, — Bndi. Gen. n. 1858. ^Pateb, Fam. Nat. 



Ic. ined. PI. Norfolk, t. 186, Endl. Pro^. Fl. 172.— BuE. Prodr. xvii. 22Z.—Papyrius Poir. 



Norfolk. 40. — Streblus Brunomana P. Mtjell. Diet. v. 3. — IjAk^. III. t. 762,— Stromadendrum 



Frag. vi. 192. — S. pendulina F. Mubll. loc. eit. Pav. Herb, ex Bur. Adansonia, x. 734. 



3 Mist. Jam. 357. — L. Sgst. n. 1103 (part.).— " PoUen granular in B. papyrifera ST^terical 

 J. Gen. 442 (part.).— Poir. Diet. viii. 122 (part.). with 2 thick polar papillsB. (H. Mohl. Ann. So. 

 —Endl. Gen. n. 1871 (part.). — Treo. Ann. Nat. air. 2, m. Z13. 



Sc.Nat. ser. 3, viii. 146.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 252. ' And by the elasticity of the fork formed 



Bueephalon Plfm. PI. Amer. (ed. Buem.), 65.— from the thick margins of the saroocarp ajfter 



— L. Spec. ed. 3, 1661. the mptore of its surfaces projected to a less or 



■• Spec. 2, 3. Sw. Obs. 372.— W. Spec. ii. 733. greater distance. (Cfr. H. Bn. Coitipt. Bend Iii, 



— Mia, Mart. Fl. Bras. Vrtic. X59. — Griseb. PI, 19 ; Adansonia., i. 226, t. 8. 



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