208 ~ NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



convex central receptacle sometimes 5 -glandular at base ( Oonvecibea^) ; 

 filaments unequal ; tlie exterior shorter erect ; the interior elongate, 

 contorto-plicate or corrugate in bud ; some central antberless ; 

 anthers usually introrse or partly extrorse ; sometimes all extrorse 

 {Veeoncibea^)^ short rimose, sometimes connective produced above 

 beyond cells. Female calyx 5-10-partite, imbricate; the exterior or 

 all the leaves furnished outwardly at base with 2 thick glands 

 (like bracts). Germen 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; styles thick 

 short erect, afterwards in three lobes, dilatato-reflexed, stigmatiferous 

 2-dentate or 2-fld at apex. Fruit capsular, 3-agonal ; exocarp thick ; 

 cocci lignescent subcrustaceous, 1-spermous ; seeds arillate at 

 micropyle. — Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate, stipulate subentire, 

 penninerved or at base 3-5-plinerved, coriaceous reticulate- veined, 

 stellate-pubescent below and fuscate-glandular-punctate ; flowers 

 terminal ; the male in ramified glomeruliferous spikes ; the female 

 in thicker spikes, sometimes glomeruliferous ; bracts laterally thickly 

 2-glanduliferous. {Trop. America^ Trop. W. Africa.*) 



63 ? Gavarretia H. Bn.' — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Concevdba); 

 the male unknown. Female calyx gamophyllous urceolate strictly 

 encircling long germen truncate at mouth, entire or obscurely 4- 

 dentate, valvate. Germen 2-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle 

 obturated ; style erect nearly from base 2-partite ; lobes 2-fid recurved 

 patent subulate papillose subequal to germen. Fruit . . . ? — A 

 tree (?) ; leaves alternate petiolate stipulate obovate, minutely glan- 

 duliferous on both sides below ; female fiowers in terminal spikes • 

 bracts 1 or few flowered, minutely 2-glandular at base.^ {North 

 BrasiV) 



64, Macaranga Dup.-Th. — Flowers dioecious apetalous; male 

 calyx valvate. Stamens oo, sometimes few or subsolitary ; filaments 

 central situated on rather convex eglandular receptacle; anthers 



1 M. Aeg. in Flora (1864), 530. 7 Spec. 1. G. tei-minalis H. Bn. loe. oit. 



2 M. Aug. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 167. —Conceveiba terminalis M. Arg. in Linncsa 



3 Spec. 4. Speeng. Syst. iii. 901 {Oouee- xxxiv. 167 ; Froclr. 897, n. 5. ' 



veibum). — ^Behth. loe. oit. 332. — H. Bn. in s ffen. Nov. Madag. 26, n. 88. A. Juss 



Adanaonia, v. 221. Hvpkort. 43. — Endl. Gen. n. 6789. H. Bn! 



^ Spec. 1. C. Afrieana M. Abo. in Mora -S'«iJA!»-i.431, t. 21, fig. 5-9.— M. Arg. P«(fc-. 987 



(1864), 630 ; Prodr. 897, n. 7. (inol. : Adenoceras Reiohb. a?, et Zoll. Adiaca 



s In Adanaonia, i. 185, t. 7, fig. 3, 4. Zoll. Mappa A. Juss. Mecostylia Kurz, Pachy- 



6 A genus reduced by Aug. to a section of atemon Bi. Panhopia Nor. Paeudo-Sottlera Zoli. 



Conceveiba. Whether sufficiently distinct ? et Eeiohb. f.). — Baker, PI, Maurit 306 



