ULMACE^. . 217 



61. Musanga R. Bk.i — Flowers dioecious ; calyx tubular longer 

 or shorter obconical, entire at apex and there truncate in males ; 

 mouth, orbicular, in females perforated by very small aperture. 

 Stamen 1, inserted at bottom of calyx; filament erect; anther 

 terminal, facing outward; cells 2, longitudinally rimose. Germen 

 erect enclosed free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, basilar erect orthotropous ; 

 micropyle superior, at apex stigmatose scarcely incrassate. 

 Fruit covered with persistent calyx rather ovoidly compressed 

 subligneous ; seed erect ; embryo . . . ? — A tree -^ leaves digitate ; 

 stipules wide foliaceous coriaceous, covering top of younger ramule, 

 deciduous ; male flowers in very compound capituliferous racemes ; 

 capitules globular small, intermixed with bracts peltate at apex ; 

 females glomerulate on thick oblong receptacle. [Trop. west. Africa?) 



62. Myrianthus P.-Beatjv.'* — Flowers dioecious ; males 4- 

 merpus, 4-androus (of Conocephalus) ; filaments sometimes variously 

 connate ; anthers 2-locuIar, 2 -rimose. Female flowers of Mu- 

 sanga or Conocephalus ; germen free 1-locular ; ovule basilar erect 

 orthotropous;^ style clavate to stigmatose apex. Syncarp ovoid 

 or ellipsoid wide and covering c» (dry ?) fruits ; seed exalbumi- 

 nous. Other characters of Conoeephalus. — A moderate-sized tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate digitate ; leaflets (to 6) lanceolate unequal, 

 white beneath ; stipules wide (of Cecropia) ; scar obliquely linear ; 

 glomerules of flowers go ; males congregated along axes of ramose 

 inflorescence ; females on subglobose capitule.^ {Trop. west. Africa?) 



63. Dicranostachys Teec.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Myri- 



{Xaruma). — Plukn, Almag. 146, t. 242, fig. 5 So. Nat. air. 3, viii. 86. — Bub. Prodr. xvii. 284 



[Fious). — P. Bk. Jam. Ill {Coilotapahis). — (not Nutt.). 

 Jaco. Obs. ii. 12, t. 46 ; Stirp. Am. Piet. 126, t. = Coat 2-plioate. 



262, fig. 66. — Adbl. Ouian. ii. 894. — W. Spec. ' In the axil of single leaves flowers are ob- 



iv. 651. — Spueng. Syat. iii. 809.- — Kl. Linnaa, served with superior conical foliaceous bud and 



XX. 630. — Gakoke, Linncea, xxii. 70. — A. Eich. 2 female inferior stipitate inflorescences, girt on 



R. 8. Cuba, xi. 222.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.- l>oth sides with scars of stipules. All the 



Iiid. 152. — LiEBM. Vidensk. Seblc. Skrift. female flowers are not always on the surface 



Ejoben. (1851), 317. — Allem. Sevist. Brazil. of the receptacle, hut some glomerules pene- 



(Jan. 1860), 8, c. ic. — MiQ. Mart. Fl. Bras. trate within the cavity of the receptacle. 



Urtic. 139, t. 46-50. — Walp. Ann. i. 650. Hence later the receptacle deeply covers some 



' App. to Tuck Nar. (1818), 453 [Congo, 34) ; of the fruit; whence it seems, Pal.-Beav- 



Misc. Works (ed. Benn.), i. 138, 153.. — Benn. vais, in his incorrect figure, took pains to de- 



Sorsf. Fl. Jav. Far. 48. — Tkeo. Ann. Sc. Nat. plot a single seed-bearing berry within ; the 



ser. 3, viii. 146. flesh of the receptacle being very similarly cou- 



2 Habit and leaves of Cecropia. sidered as the pericarp of the simple fruit. 



' Spec. 1. M. Smithii E. Bh. Herb. — Walp. ' Spec. 1. M. arborem P.-Beabv. loo. cit. — 



Ann. i. 667. Benk. Sorsf. PI. Jav. Bar. 50. 



< Fl. Owar. et Ben. i. 16, t. 11, 12.— E. Br. « Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 85, t. 1, fig. 1-8. 



Congo, 449.— Endl. Gen. n. 1867.— Tkec. Aim. —Bur. Prodr. xvii. 283. 



