ULMACE^. igr 



bricate or sub-valvate. Stamens 3,4; anthers short introrse ; cells 

 subglobular rimose. Female calyx urceolate, at apex shortly or very 

 shortly 4-dentate, sometimes hence fissous. Gynsecium sessile; 

 germen 1 -ovulate; style erect, presently divided into 2 branches, 

 equal or unequal {Allceanthus), filiform papillose. Fruit sessile, 

 enclosed by calyx, coriaceous fleshy ; albumen or scanty mucous ; 

 cotyledons of fleshy embryo equal or unequal ; radicle various. — 

 Trees or shrubs, often climbing, lactescent ; leaves petiolate, 2- 

 stichous, entire or serrate ; stipules lateral, deciduous ; inflorescence 

 axillary pedunculate, solitary or 2-nate, sometimes more ; the male 

 spikelike glomerulate ; female flowers capitate ; bracteate.^ {Trop. 

 Asia and Oceania?') 



20 ? Cardiogyne Bue.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Brousso- 

 netia or Madura) ; calyx 4 -fid, in female flower oftener thicker, 

 imbricate.'* Stamens 4, germen and other characters of Caturus ; 

 style simple very long, long-filiform and stigmatose above. Fruit 

 collected on globular syncarp ; drupes oo, nidulant ; exocarp thin ; 

 putaraen crustaceous fragile. Seed exalbuminous ; coat thia mem- 

 branous; cotyledons of incurved embryo foliaceous wide much 

 corrugate-conduplicate, one enveloping the other; radicle incumbent 

 on cotyledons thick conical, slightly curved, ascending. — A spinous 

 shrub ; leaves alternate petiolate entire penninerved ; inflorescence 

 of both sexes axillary 2-nate, shortly pedunculate or sessile ; recep- 

 tacle globose glomerulate ; flowers alternately free and braoteate ola- 

 vate rather thick, at apex truncately peltate, intermixed.* (Zanzibar.^) 



21 ? Plecospermum Teec.''— Flowers dioecious (of Cardiogyne or 

 Broussonetia), 4-merous ; male calyx 4-fid, imbricate ; female pierced 

 at apex with very small aperture 4-denticulate. Syncarp globose 

 fleshy enclosing free fertile and sterile achenes; embryo of ex- 

 albuminous seed fleshy ; cotyledons conduplicate covering ascending 

 radicle. Other characters of Broussonetia (or Madura). — A spinous 



' A genus very near to Brousaonetia, Alltean- * The female sepals very often enclose in the 



tkiis intervening, and also to Madura, notwith- very thick substance of the parenchyma 2 cellB 



standing the calyx of the latter is formed of free (of a sterile anther ?)filled with a yellowpowder. 



folioles. Allteanthus is (not without right) a The same is more rarely the case in the male 



section of Maelitra, according to Mia. Fl. Ind.- calyx of some very near genera of Flecosj>ermum. 



Bat. i. p. ii. 280. The sepals thus call to mind those of the Oxa- 



^ Spec. 2. 3. Hook, and Abn. Beeeh. Toy. lidea, though thicker. 



Bot. 214 (Trophii). — Bl. Bijdr. 488 {Morus); ' A genus to be reduced perhaps to a section 



Mm. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 75 {Malasia). — Mia. loo. cit. of Cudratda. 



281 {jOephahtrophis). — M. Abo. DC. Prodr. xv. • Spec. 1. C. africema Bub. loc. cit. 



sect. H. 906 {AUhornia).STSstv.. Fl. Austral. 1 Arm. So. Nat. s&. 3, viii. 124, t. 4, fig.. 121- 



vi. 180 {Malaiiia). 126 Bbe. Brodr. xvii. 233. 



' Prodr. xvii. 232. 



