948 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



inwardly stigmatiferous, and sulcate afterwards strictly reflexeds to 

 germen. Fruit . . . ? — A tree (?); leaves^ alternate petiolate, 2 -stipulate 

 digitate ; folioles 3, subsessile penniaerved, subentire or crenulate ; 

 male flowers in slender ramified spikes axillary or springing from the 

 wood of the branches of the preceding year ; branches of spikes fili- 

 form puberulate rather remotely glomeruliferous ; the female in simple 

 short few flowered rather thick spikes in the axils of the leaves o£ the 

 preceding year ; all bracteate and bracteolate. {North Brazil.^) 



138 ? Freireodendron M. Arg.^ — *' Flowers dioecious apetalous; 

 calyx 5-fid, imbricated. Stamens 10, the exterior opposite calyx lobes 

 inserted under margin of central disk ; the interior filaments as if per- 

 forating extrorsely projecting disk ; anthers basifixed introrsely rimose. 

 Germen 1-locular, 2-ovulate ; stigma sessile wide subpeltate. Fruit 

 drupaceous, by abortion 1-spermous j seed exarillate ; cotyledons of 

 copiously albuminous embryo 3-angular-OTate penninerved, cordate 

 plane at base, Ipnger than radicle. — A medium sized tree ; leaves 

 alternate slightly petiolate penninerved serrate-dentate; stipules 

 deciduous ; flowers axillary glomerate ; female in glomerules as if 

 radians." (Brazil.*) 



139. Drypetes Yahl.^— Flowers dioecious apetalous ; calyx 4-6- 

 partite imbricated. Stamens equal in number to petals (4-6) or twice 

 more, oftener co ; filaments evolute, inserted round rudiment of ger- 

 men ^ or wider disciform ''' {Hemicyclia^^ Cyclostemon ^) or free ; anthers 

 2-locular ; base of long adnate and introrse or laterally rimose cells 

 always inferior. Germen surrounded by hypogynous usually cupular 

 disk; cells 1 {Hemicyelia)^ or 1, 2 {Cyclostemon^ 8tenogynium^^\ or 3, 

 4 {Dodeqastemon'^^), 2 ovulate ; style branches short thick {Eudryfetes) 



1 Nearly of Eutaeete, Zanthoxylori. ' Drypetes ArcTT. 



' Spec. 1. P. trifoUolata H. Bn. he. eit. ' " Discus intrastammaJis " (M. Aug). 



3 Prodr. 244 (whence the characters have ^ Wioht et Arn. in Edinh. n. Phil. Journ. xiv. 



been selected by authors from representations). 297. — ^Endl. Gen. n. 6816. — Hi Bn. Eapharb. 



* Spec. 1. F. sessiliflorum M. Axa.— Drypetes 562, t. 27, fig. 7, 8.— M. Arq. Prodr. 486. 

 aessiliflora Ailbm. in Bot. Zeit. (1854), 459. » Bl. £ijdr. 697.— Endl. Gen. n. 5837.— H. 

 A genus badly known, Bn. Mtphort. 561, t. 23, fig. 22-25. — ^M. Ako. 



* Echg. Amer.nL (1796), 49. — Pen. in M4m. in Linntea, xxxii. 81 ; Prodr. 482. — Sphragidia 

 Mm. i. 152, t. 6-8. — ^A. Jvss. JSuphorb. 12. — Thw. in Sook. Journ. (1856), 269, 1. 10. — Pycno- 

 Endl. Gen. n. 6874. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 606, t. sandra Bl. Mus. Ltigd.-Bat. ii. 191. (fl. masc). 

 24 fig. 34-40 ; in Adansmia, xi. 98. — M. Arg. i" M. Abg. in Linncsa, xxxii. 81. 



Prodr. 463 (inol. : Anaua MiQ. Astylis Wight, " Hassk. in Bot. Zeit. (1856), 803 ; in Bull. 



Cyclostemon Bl.. JDodecastemon Hassk. Semicy. Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 716. — Fycmsandra Bl. (fl. 



elia Wight et Arn. Mparene Poit. Peripkxis foem.). 

 Wall. Pycnosandra Bl. Sphragidia Thw.) 



