U IMAGED. 201 



4-fid, valvate. Stamens 4 ; filaments inflexed in bud finally erect ; 

 anthers introrse rotundate, 2-rimose. Germen very shortly stipi- 

 tate ; style lateral very short, afterwards 2 -fid ; lobes pilose very 

 unequal ; one very long filiform ; the other (superposed to cell) very 

 short subulate; ovule in cell 1, descending and inserted under 

 the apex; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit clothed at base 

 with persistent calyx, drupaceous ; putamen chartaceous ; exooarp 

 laterally and below much thicker and finally free from putamen. 

 Seed descending ; testa membranous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of 

 central embryo flat, curved at base ; radicle accumbent ascending 

 and subequal to cotyledons. — An herb,^ sometimes shrubby at base ; ^ 

 stem simple or branched from base ; branches diffuse or ascending ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate ; stipules lateral ; flowers axillary ; inflores- 

 cence androgynous pedunculate cymose-oapitate solitary or 2-nate ; 

 female flowers terminal and dichotomous. {Japan, trop. and suhtrop. 

 Oceania?) 



29. Bleekrodea Bl.* — Flowers moDoecious (nearly of Fatoua), 

 4-5-merous ; male calyx valvate, 4-5-fid. Stamens 4-5 ; filaments 

 incurved at aestivation, inserted under rudiment of gynsecium • 

 anthers introrse, 2-dymous. Female calyx ureeolate or tubular, 

 4-dentate. Germen 1 -ovulate ; style lateral ; branches 2, very long 

 setaceous stigmatose, equal or somewhat unequal. Fruit drupaceous, 

 enclosed by ureeolate calyx'; exocarp unequal, thick below and 

 laterally hence to style; putamen chartaceous. Seed subglobose, 

 sometimes flattened above; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 very unequal ; one very small squamiform ; radicle small incumbent. 

 — Unarmed lactescent shrubs ; leaves alternate, very shortly petio- 

 late, entire or dentate, sometimes lobed, penninerved veined; stipules 

 lateral ; flowers in axillary 1-2-sexual cymes ; the female solitary in 

 dichotomy of ramules ; the male numerous. {Borneo, Madagascar.^) 



30. Sloetia Teysm. and Binn.^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of 

 Bleekrodea) ; male 3-merous ; calyx valvate. Sepals of female calyx 



1 Habit quite of UHica. folia Miq. ZoU. Yerz. 103, 106.— i?. globulifera 



'Pubescence 2-morphous; hairs at base Mio.. he. eit. 



coarse. * Mm. iMgd.-Bat. ii. 87. t. 28.— Bub. Prodr. 



' Spec. 1. F. japmtica Bl. Mus. Zugd-Bat. xvii. 264. 



ii. t. 38.— f. pihm Gaudioh.— Ji". aspera Gau- ' Spec. 2. Bl. he. eit. 



sics.—K suboordata Gaudich. — F. Imceolata ^ Tydschr. Nat. Ver.{l8&Z). Kukz. in /o«<r«. 



DcNE. Herb. Timor. i92.— Urtiea Japoniea Zinn. Soe. viii. {I86i), 168. t. 13.— BvB.. Frodr 



Thonb. I'l. Jap. 70. — K manillenm Walp. — xvii. 257. 

 Farielaria aspera, Lebohen. — Flem-ya gleckomce- 



