212 NATORAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



globose or pear-sTiaped receptacle, more or less open at apex and 

 there bracteate, androgynous or female; males and females glo- 

 merate, intermixed on the same receptacle or oftener separate. 

 Calyx 2- 6-phyllous, often incrassate or fleshy. Stamens 1 {Uro- 

 stiffma^), 2 (Pharmacosycea^), or 4-6, oppositisepalous ; filaments 

 free or connate at base ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile 

 or stipitate, oftener 1-locular ; ^ style lateral, at apex simple, subu- 

 late, obtuse, capitate, infundibuliform or 2- fid stigmatose, enclosed 

 within receptacle ; ovule descending, anatropous or campylotropous ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous enclosed in recep- 

 tacle not fissus nor expanded ; stipes with thicker fleshy angles ; 

 mesocarp at both surfaces thin membranous, generally at last evan- 

 escent ; putamen crustaeeous or fragile, 1 -spermous. Seed descend- 

 ing ; testa membranous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of incurved 

 embryo rather flat, sometimes unequal ; radicle superior incumbent. 

 — Trees, sometimes lofty, or shrubs, sometimes climbing, lactescent ; 

 leaves generally alternate, sometimes more rarely opposite, entire or 

 lobate, persistent or deciduous; stipules large convolute enclosing 

 terminal bud of branchlet, deciduous or more rarely persistent ; 

 inflorescences axillary, solitary or fasciculate, sometimes more rarely 

 in a spike or terminal raceme ; receptacle oftener bracteate at base ; 

 male glomerules superior in androgynous receptacle ; flowers sessile 

 or pedicillate, bracteate or ebracteate. (JU trop. and temp, regions.'^') 



Gen. n. 1168.— Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 377.— ^ Gasp. Nov. Ge«. 7 ; Sic. 81, t. 7.— Mia. 



—J. Gen. 400.— GjKBTO. Fruct.ii. 66,191.— Hook. Joitrn. yi. 225; Mart. Fl. Bras. Urtic. 



Lamk. DW. ii. 489 ; Suppl. ii. 648 ; /«. t. 861. 90, t. "n-Zl.—Cystogyne Gru-sv. Nov. Gen. 9; 



— Tdep. Diet. So. Nat. Atl. t. 285.— Spach, Jiu. 84, t. i.— Visiania Gasp. Nov. Gen. 9 (not 



Suit, a Buffon, xi. 64.— Endl. Gen. n. 1859.— 'DG.).—Macrophthalma Gasp. Eie. 83t. 8.— Mia. 



G!\»T-!MS.. Nov. Gen. qua sup.nonnull. 'Sid spec. Hook. Journ. vi. 225.— Galofflpchia Gasf. Nov. 



...{ISii) ; Sic. s.nat. d. Fico ed. Cnprifieo (ISili) ; Gen. 10; Sic. 84 {Si/coearpa Mia.). 



Nov. ric. s. ale. punt...doetr. d. Fieo e de Capri- 2 Mia. Hook. Land. Journ. vii. 64 ; Mart. Fl. 



fco.—T-KEC, Ann. Sc. Nat. eer. 3, -yiii. 137. — Bras. Utric. 83, t. 25, 26. 



Payek, Organog. 285, t. 61 ; Fam. Nat. 170.— 3 Sometimes very rarely 2, 3-lociilar. 



BuH. PfWr. xvii. 287 (inol. ; Bosscheria ds i Spec, atout 600 (Bur.). Thunb. Jims (?«!. 



Veiese et TEYSif. (BnK.).— Ca™a Mia. (a part TJpsal (1786). — K. Fnum. Fie. Sort. Berol. 



of which is Caprijicm Gasp. Nov. Gen. 6; Sic. (1846), Ann. Sc. Nat. a6r. 3, vii. 231.— Mm. 



79, t. 1-3. Didymophora Mia. Eriosycea Mia. Prodr. Mon. Fie. Book. London Journ. (1847, 



ICissosycea Mia. Leiosyeea Mia. Nematosycea 1848) ; Journ. Bot. Neerl. i. 230 ; Zoll. Verz. ii. 



Mia. Podosycea Mia. Trmmtosyeea Mia.).— 90 ; Plant. Jungh. 46 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat i p ii 



Covellia Gasp. Nov. Gen. 10; Sic. 85, t. 8, fig. 293 ; guppl. i. 173, 424 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 



36-42 {Sycomorphe Mia. Ami. Sc. Nat. s6i. 3, 1, iii. 261, 285, 297.— Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. 266.— 



35).— ^™s«»« Both. Cat. m.—Frythrogyne A. EiOH. iJ. & Cm4«, xi. 220.— Griseb. J?/. .Bni. 



Vis. Gasp. Sic %&.—Plagiostigma Zuoc. Abh. W.-Ind. 150.— Seem. Fl. Vit 247 — Benth Fl 



Ak. Miinch. iv. 64, {Te^torea Gasper.).-^.^^™. ^0,,^/,. 326; i?;. Austral, vi. 160.-Gren. et 



trophe Mia. ffook. Journ. vii. 72.— Sycomorus GojiK.Fl.de Fr.m. 103.— Wai.p. ^n«. i. 706 ; 



Gasp. Sic. 78. — Mia. Hook. Lond. Journ. vii. iii. 417. 

 109. — Synwcia Mia. Hook. Lond. Journ. vii. 469. 



