222 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



petiolate, penninerved denticulate ; flowers in axillary and terminal 

 racemes, 2-sexiial. {North Brazil}) 



89. Angostyles Benth.^ — Flowers moncecious apetalons; male 

 calyx valvate, 3-4-partite. Stamens oo (about 20), inserted on elevated 

 receptacle ; filaments central stort, l-adelphous at base ; anthers 

 2-dymous; connective wide 3 -angular; cells free among themselves, 

 widely adnate to connective, divergent at base. Female calyx 6- 

 partite, quiacuncially imbricated. Germen 3-locular; cells 1 -ovulate; 

 style (much, larger than germen) thick obconical ; branches 3, deeply 

 2-partite ; lobes hence 6 inwardly wide papillose-carinate.^ Fruit 

 capsular, 3-coccous ; seed . . . ? — A tree ; leaves alternate, collected 

 at summit of twigs, 2-stipulate, penninerved denticulate ; below at 

 base marked on both sides with 4-8 glands. Flowers cymose- 

 racemose on wood of branches of preceding year ; the female solitary 

 in axils of leaves of branches of the present year. {North Brazil}') 



90. Fragariopsis A. S. H.^ — Flowers moncecious ; male calyx 

 valvate, 4-5-partite. Stamens oo, alternately seriate, sometimes few 

 remote; anthers extrorse subsessile in hemispherical glandular 

 receptacle ; cells divergent deflexed at base, longitudinally rimose. 

 Female calyx 4-partite. Germen sessile ; cells 4, alternating with 

 sepals, 1 -ovulate ; style (much larger than germen) thickly obovoid, 

 obpyramidal or subcuboid, shortly 4-lobate at apex; cells cruciate 

 radiant, inwardly sulcate and stigmatiferous. Fruit globose or sub- 

 cuboid, carnose-suberous, 1-4-locular ; seed . . . ? — Scandent shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate stipulate penninerved ; base of limb 2-glanduliferous 

 above, glandular-denticulate at margin; flowers in oppositifolious 

 or extra-axUlary racemes ; the inferior in the racemes female ; the 

 others male. {Brazil}) 



91. Plukenetia Pltjm.'' — Flowers monoecious apetalous (nearly of 



1 Spec. 2. M. Aug. he. cit.—U. Bn. in ' a. S. H. Morphol. Yeg. 426 (ex H. Bn. 

 Admsonia, v. 307. Uuphorb. 497, t. 12, fig. 46 ; t. 13, fig. 29-36). 



2 In Sook. Journ. (1854), 328.— H. Bn. — M. Abo. Proch: ns.—Accia, A. S. H. op. eit. 

 Bvphorb. 498, t. 9, fig. 8-11. — M. Aug. Prodr. iSd.—JSotrj/anthe Kl. in Urichs. Arch. (1841), 

 767. 190, t. 9, fig. B.— Endl. Gen. n. 5784'. - 



' The stylehenoe representing all the corolla, « Spec. 1, 2. H. Bn. in Adantonia, v. 317. 



thick tuhular-infundibuUform e-lohed ahove. 7 JSov. Gen. Amer. 47, t. 13; Ic. t. 226. — 



■1 Spec. 1. A. longifolia Benth. loe. cit.— 'R. L. Gen. n, 1080. — J. Gen. 392. — Lahk. III. t. 



Bn. in Adansonia, v. 318. 788.— Pom. Diet. vi. 449 ; Suppl. v. 20.— Endl. 



