210 NATCBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



48. Lanessania H. Bn.' — Flowers monoecious collected on un- 

 equally obpyramidal angular receptacle ; males crowded in glome- 

 rules on the nearly flat upper base of the receptacle. Female 

 flower 1 central ; germen inferior, adnate within to centre of 

 receptacle ; style apical within central vertical canal erect and free, 

 afterwards 2 -fid in subulate lacinise exserted beyond male flowers ; 

 ovule 1, subapical in cell descending ; micropyle extrorsely superior. 

 Fruit . . . ? — A tree (?) ; leaves alternate petiolate ; stipules lateral 

 free unequally 3-angular; inflorescence axillary pedunculate. 

 Bracts co, unequal, imbricate around upper orbicular base of recep- 

 tacle in many cases as an involucre ; fewer inserted around apex of 

 receptacle below ; a few interposed remotely alternate very unequal 

 and inserted here and there on the slightly prominent longitudinal 

 walls of the receptacle. (North. Brazil^) 



49. Scyphosyce H. Bn.^ — Flowers moncecious, crowded in 

 androgynous inflorescences ; female 1, central ; males co , perigy- 

 nously inserted in throat of regularly obcampanulate poculiform 

 receptacle, sub- 1 -seriate; lobes of involucre few (4-5) broad obtuse 

 membranous, imbricate, finally (calyx-like) expanded. Male calyx 

 long obconically tubular, at base long attenuated and shortly 

 stipitate, above finally subentire truncate. Stamen 1 ; filament 

 central, inserted at bottom of calyx, erect and exserted; anthers 

 basifixed oblong, 2-rimose.* Female calyx (?) 2-phyllous ; ^ folioles 

 sessile, imbricate. Germen inserted at bottom of receptacle sessile, 

 oblong-conical, l-locular ; ovule 1, inserted under apex of cell 

 descending ; micropyle extrorsely superior ; style terminal erect, 

 2-fid at apex ; lobes subulate recurved stigmatose. Fruit . . . ?— A. 

 glabrous shrub (?) ; leaves alternate (2-stichous ?), at base long- 

 narrow, shortly petiolate, oblong-subspathulate acuminate crenate 

 penninerved, unequal at base ; stipules (equal to or longer than 

 petiole) acute, imbricate ; inflorescence axillary pedunculate. {Trop. 

 west. jifricaS') 



50. Bosqueia Dup.-Th.''' — Flowers moncecious; receptacles ob- 

 liquely obconieal ; males crowded, inserted on oblique upper base ; 

 stamens intermixed with unequal imbricate bracts ; the exterior 



^ Adansonia, xi. 298 ; Sull. Soc. Linn. Fur. * Nigrescent. 



49. * GyniBciTim bracteate at base ? 



" Spec. 1. Z. turbinata H. Bn. loc. cit. — Bio- « Spec. 1. iS. Manniana H. Bn. he. cit. 



simum turbinatum Spruce, Herb. 7 Ex. H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 335, t. 10 ; viii. 



^ Adansonia, xi. 293. 72, t. 4.— Bur. Frodr. xvii. 288. 



