ULMAGE^. 205 



scanty ; putamen thin fragile. Seed descending ; albumen scanty ; 

 cotyledons of curved embryo oblong-elliptical subfoliaoeous ; radicle 

 accumbent descending. — Lofty trees ; leaves opposite wide, 3-lobed ; 

 stipules 2 on each side, interpetiolate, deciduous ; syncarps globose 

 axillary.^ ( Guiana.'^) 



37. Cudrania TrSc.^ — Flowers dioecious; sepals 4, free, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 4, opposite, sometimes at base coherent with sepals, 

 inserted around acute rudiment of gynsecium. Germen and other 

 characters of Artocarpm ; style branches 2, very unequal ; one very 

 short denticuliform ; the other slender elongate, at apex filiform 

 stigmatose. Syncarp globose, composed of crustaceous, ovately 

 lenticular, 2-valvate capsules, with persistent stipate sepals; testa of 

 amphitropous seeds thin ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of plicate 

 embryo rather thick contortuplicate subequal ; radicle superior long. 

 Spinous shrubs, oftener climbing ; leaves alternate entire petiolate, 

 oblong or obovate, acuminate or mucronate ; stipules 2 axillary, 

 connate at base, deciduous ; flowers capitate ; capitules globose 

 (glomeruliferous) pedunculate axillary, 2-nate. {South east. Asia, 

 Malaya, Australia, New Caledonia.*) 



38. Helianthostylis H. Bn.* — Flowers dioecious (or monoecious ?) 

 male calyx obconical membranous, imbricate, 4-fid. Stamens 4, 

 opposite lobes of calyx; filaments short erect, finally elongately 

 exserted, at base connate with each other and with stipes of 

 gynsecium ; anthers short, extrorsely rimose ; connective sub- 

 orbicular.® Germen sterile effete, produced upwards to a style very 

 long exserted accrescent and very slender somewhat hispid. Female 

 fiower . . . ? Fruit globose ; pericarp thin fragile, externally scabrid ? 

 testa of subglobose seed thin ; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous 

 embryo 3, plano-convex or sometimes 3, equi-angular fleshy ; radicle 

 superior very short. — A tree (?) ; leaves alternate (2-stichous ?) 

 petiolate j stipules small connivent ; ' flowers axillary capitate ; 

 capitules globose, shortly pedunculate, involucrate with few bracts * 

 at base. {North. BrasiV) 



' A genus of somewhat uncertain place from {Maelmra), 290 (^Cudranus). — Thw. Enum. 



the male flowers and stamens being unknown, Plant. Zeyl, 262 {Ctukanm). — Bi. Mm. Jjugd.- 



but much resembling Madura. Bat. ii. 83 (^Maclm-a). — Bur. Ann. So. Nat. sir. 



2 Spec. 1. V. 2 (BuE.). 5, xi. 377 {Gudromw). — Benth. Fl. Justral. vi. 



s Ann. Se. Nat. sir. 3, viii. 122, t. 3, fig. 76- 178. 



85. — Bur. Prodr. xvii. 285. — Gadranus Rumph. ^ Adanaonia, xi. 299. 



Sferb. Amboi/i. v. 22, t. 15, 16. ^ Dark coloured. 



* Spec. 5, 6. W. Spec. iv. 735 (Trophis). — ? Scars transverse, not confluent. 



RoxB. Cat. Wall. [Mtis). —HiiQ.. PI. Jungh. 44 ; s gpec. 1. ff. Sprtmi H. Bn. foe. cit. 



I. Vm. ii. 90 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 280 » Prodr. 129, t. 28 ; Fl. Pep 257.— Enm. Gen. 



