^ NATUEAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



mthus); male calyx 3-4-fid, imbricate. Stamens 3,4; filaments 

 short erect, connate at base; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Female 

 calyx thickly urceolate, small aperture at apex. Germen, etc., of 

 Myrianthus (or Conocephalus); style terminal exserted, clavate to 

 apex, here laterally sulcate and stigmatose. Fruit (small ?) capitate ; 

 seed . . . ?— Trees ; leaves alternate, simple or digitate (of Myrian- 

 thus) ; leaflets oftener serrate, whitish beneath, at base generally 

 more or less uneqnilateral ; male inflorescences ramose (of Myrian- 

 thus); female flowers congregated in spurious capitules; capitules 

 few-flowered, contiguous only at base and stellately divaricate above.^ 

 {Trop. west. Africa?) 



IV. CANNABINE^. 



64. Cannabis T. — Flowers dioecious ; male sepals 5, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, opposite sepals, pendent ; filaments thin inserted round 

 centre ; anthers oblong subintrorse, finally marginate or extrorsely 

 rimose. Female calyx gamophyllous membranous cupular enfolding 

 the germen and persistent. Germen free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, descend- 

 ing campylotropous ; branches of terminal style 2, linear-elongate, 

 sometimes equal, everywhere papilloso-stigmatose. Fruit dry, 



1 A genus differing from Myrianthus only in 2. Clarisia (K. et Pav. Prodr. 128, t. 28), a 

 tlie nature of its female infloreacence, in other very doubtful genus, sometimes made a sub- 

 respects closely allied. genus of Myrica (Endl. Gen. n. 18.39 a), some- 



2 Spec. 1, 2 (3, exBuK.). Walp.^«m. i. 653. times enumerated as an independent genus 

 Of the types imperfectly known, and, doubt- among the Myrieacem (Llndl. Yeg. Kingd. 256 ; 

 fuUy, to be referred to this series (or to the — C. DO. Prodr. xvi. sect. ii. 155), from a some- 

 preceding ?), a few words may be permitted what rude figure of the male inflorescence, it 

 respecting the 2 following :— seems rather to belong to this order and perhaps 



1. Stenochasma (MiQ. PI. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii to the series Ariocarpece; staminal filaments 



292), enumerated among the Artocarpem, has very similar not incurved in bud. From de- 



dioecious flowers. Males. . . . ? Females said scription, male amentum filiform, marked with 



to be dense on axillary 2-nate pedunculate a spiral furrow, covered with oblong imbricate 



globose receptacle, subpedicillate. Perigonium scales, l-florous. Perianth 0, unless the scales 



utriculose, perforated at incrassate fleshy axUe may be called such. CoroUa 0. Staminal fila- 



apex, membranous at base. Germen 1-ovu- ments 2, each inserted within a scale short erect 



late ; ovule inserted above the middle (whence filiform. Anthers small 3ub-4-angular. Female 



agreeing neither with the TTrticea; nor with flowers in racemes 2-nate. Perianth proper (?) 



the Conocephalea). Style enclosed very short; inferior very smaU squamose; scales 4-6, orbi- 



stigma semiglobose depressed puberulous, sub- cular-subpeltate, affixed to pedicel by a dislf, 



exserted. Achene (dark coloured) somewhat crenate at margin. Corolla 0. Germen ovate' 



ovoidly compressed, enclosed in subbaccate 4, 5- Styles 2, subulate and patent; stigmas acute 



angled obpyramidal perigonium; seed inserted simple. Drupe ovate; seed subrotund Spe- 



near apex; cotyledons of (immature) embryo eies 2 arborescent (char, ex E and Pav— Affi- 



equal elliptical plano-convex; radicle very nity perhaps (.P) with JiCMi^oso^wB, ^«W««i« 



short. (Mia.). and Soarcsia.). 



