336 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



at the apex ; anthers extrorse ; cells longitudinally rimpse. Female 

 calyx 5 -partite. Petals 5, alternate, slightly longer, at apex acute or 

 obtuse pubescent ciliolate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous sterile ; fila- 

 ments very short erect ; anthers basifixed extrorse effete. Germen 

 inserted in pateriform central receptacle, free long exserted elon- 

 gate-cylindrical straight or arched, produced to a point at the apex, 

 surrounded at base with papillose orbicular disk; cell 1, 2-ovulate; 

 ovules 2-nate collaterally descendent ; micropyle -introrse superior ; 

 fanicle incrassate. Fruit (nearly of Kwmnerice) drupaceous elliptical 

 anticipiti-compressed obscurely ribbed ; flesh scanty ; putamen thin 

 hard ; one seed" rudimentary, the other perfect pendulous ; albumen 

 fleshy copious; cotyledons of minute subapical oblique embryo 

 obovate shorter than conical radicle. — A glabrous tree ; ^ leaves 

 alternate petiolate-entire membranous or subcoriaceous penninerved ; 

 primary nerves parallel ; flowers crowded axillary or terminating short 

 axillary branches bearing 1 or 2 leaves at the base, and disposed in 

 many times ramified cymiferous racemes. {Malacca.'^) 



V. PHYTOCEENEJE. 



60. Phytocrene Wall. — Flowers dioecious ; male perianth, 

 (corolla) 3, 4-partite ; leaves valvate, more or less coherent at base, 

 finally solute and slightly recurved at apex. Stamens same in 

 number alternate ; filaments free inserted round stipitate-cylindrical 

 clavate and hispid rudiment of gynaeceum ; anthers introrse ; cells 2, 

 parallel discrete, inserted on margin of rectangular connective, longi- 

 tudinally rimose, finally subversatile. Parts of female perianth 3, 4-val- 

 vate, more or less persistent. Staminodes same in number or 1, 2, very 

 small dentiform alternate. Germen sessile, villose at base, l-locular ; 

 style of germen subequal thick erect, cylindrical or subclavate villose, 

 hollow tubular or very narrow infundibuliform, at apex stigmatose 

 unequally capitate, 2-4-lobed or sub-2-labiate. Ovules in cell 2-nate 

 collaterally descendent ; micropyle introrse superior. Drupes oo , col- 

 lected in large globose capitule, villose or echinate ; spines inserted in 

 hollows of putamen, finally solute ; putamen hard ligneous, replete at 

 apex with resinous vesicules, at base l-locular, l-spermous ; mesocarp 



1 Habit that of Bome Artoearpm. ^ Spec. 1, (?. myrianthea H. Bn. hQ. eit. 



