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ledons of straiglit exalbuminous embryo thick ; radicle short superior. 

 — Lactifluous trees ; branches marked with linear scars of fallen 

 stipules ; leaves alternate, entire, lobed or digitately divided, glabrous 

 or clothed with various indumentum, costulately venose and venulate ; 

 stipules connate in one clothing the top of the ramule ; scars linearly 

 annular ; flowers collected in compound or decompound cymes on 

 peduncle oftener 2-nate ; males small, {Trop. South America}) 



58, Conocephalus Bl.'^ — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx tubular 

 or turbinate, 4-dentate or 4-fid or more rarely unequally or subequally 

 2-partite, valvate or at apex slightly imbricate. Stamens 4, or very 

 rarely 2, oppositisepalous ; filaments erect in bud, subequal to calyx, 

 complanate, centrally inserted around rudiment of gynsecium ; 

 anthers short exserted ; cells oftener free at base, introrsely, laterally 

 or extrorsely promiscuously rimose. Female calyx tubular, 4-fid. 

 Germen free; style terminal, apex capitate, or laterally oblong 

 stigmatose ; ovule basilar erect orthotropous or suborthotropous ; 

 micropyle superior. Fruit enclosed by persistent calyx, dry char- 

 taceous, longitudinally 2-valved, Seed ovoid; hilum basilar or 

 sublateral ; testa membranous ; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous 

 embryo fleshy plano-convex; radicle superior, — Climbing shrubs; 

 leaves alternate, entire, long-petiolate ; stipules axillary connate in one 

 semiamplexicaul, deciduous ; scars annular; flowers axillary capitate ; 

 capitule (glomeruliferous) compound cymose ; females oftener solitary. 

 {Trop. south. Asia and Oceania.^) 



59. Coussapoa Aubl.* — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Conoce- 

 phalus) ; male calyx gamophyllous, subcylindrieal or turbinate, im- 

 bricate ; mouth 2-3-fid or dentate, sometimes partite. Stamens 

 2, central; filaments free or connate in erect filiform or complanate 

 column ; anthers free, extrorse, 2-rimose or connate in one 4-locular 

 and terminal ; cells longitudinally rimose. Female flower, etc, of 



1 Spec, atout 20. Pospp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et 1203. — Gaudich. Voy. Bonite Bot. i. 96. — Mia. 

 Spec. ii. 29, t. 141.— Kl. Linncea, xx. 526.— PL Junc/h. 43 ; Fl. Jnd.-Bat. i. p. ii. 283 ; Suppl. 

 MiQ. Mart. Fl. Bras. Urtic. 121, t. 36-41.— i. 171, 416, 417.— Teysm. et Binn, in Nat. 

 Walp. Ann. i. 656. Tijdschr. xxvii. 26. — Walp. Ann. i. 654. 



2 Bijdr. 483.— Endl. Gen. n. 1869.— Teeo. * Guian. ii. 955, t. 362, 363.— J. Gen. 406.— 

 Ann. Sec. Nat. Ser. 3, -viii. 87, t. 2, fig. 41-51. Lamk. Diet. ii. 160. — Benn. Eorsf. PL Juv. Bar. 

 —Bub. Prodr. xvii. 284. 49.— Enm. Gen. u. 1866.— Tkec. Ann. Sc. Nat. 



3 Spec. 7, 8 (atout 10, Bue.). Benn. Sorsf. eer. 3, viii. 92, t. 1, fig. 23-40.— Bue. Prodi: 

 PI. Jav. Bar. 47, t. 12.— Linul. Bot. Beg. t. xvii. 284. 



