338 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANI8. 



shortly racemose ; each pedicel of female flower short rather thick J 

 of the male much elongated filiform,^ articulate at base and there 

 furnished with a short ^ 3-5-fid epicalyx. [Trop. Asia and Oceania?) 



62. Sarcostigma Wight and Aen.* — Flowers dioecious ; leaves of 

 perianth 4, 5, subpetaloid, valvate, finally patent or reflected. Sta- 

 mens 4, 5, alternate ; filaments short ; anthers introrse subversatile. 

 Germen (in long conoid effete male flower) 1-locular, 2 -ovulate, sur- 

 rounded by sterile staminodes ; style very short thick depressed 

 globose or obliquely reniform stigmatiferous. Fruit drupaceous, sur- 

 rounded at base with persistent perianth; flesh scanty; putamen 

 subligneous ; testa of seed thia ; cotyledons of fleshy thick exalbu- 

 minous embryo plano-convex, sheathing at base a short thick supe- 

 rior straight radicle. — Scandent volubile shrubs ; wood rather hard ; 

 leaves alternate entire very much reticulate- veined ; flowers in elon- 

 gated spikes, and in them interruptedly glomerate or fasciculate; 

 pedicels short, articulate at base, inserted in more or less pro- 

 minent.' callus ; bracts 4, 5, connate in short calyciform ^ subentire or 

 unequally-dentate involucre inserted rather remotely from perianth 

 and at base of pedicel. {Trap. Asia and Oceania.^) 



63. Natsiatum Ham.^ — Flowers dioecious; leaves of perianth. 

 4-6, valvate. Stamens 4 6, alternate (rudimentary in female flower); 

 filaments short dilated inserted below rudiment of emarginate or ob- 

 scurely lobed gynseceum ; glands same in number between these ; 

 anthers introrse ; cells rimose ; connective produced beyond cells into a 

 short (transparent) poiat. Germen sessile villous, surrounded at base 

 with 4, 5, oppositipetalous simple or 2-nate glands, 2-ovulate ; style 

 short apical ; lobes 2, 3, linear divergent ; unequal-capitellate stigma-, 

 tiferous at apex. Drupe unequally-ovate rather compressed ; flesh 

 scanty ; putamen crustaceous ; coat of descendent seed thin ; albumen 

 fleshy ; radicle of subequal embryo superior conical ; cotyledons orbi- 



1 " Corollarum tutis " (Auctt.). Gen. 354, u. 33. — H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 365 ; x. 



2 "Calyce" (AucTT.). 282 ; P™*-. xvii. 15. 



^ Spec, atout 6. Wight, III. ii. 62 [Phyto- * "Calycem" (Auctt.). 



crene).- — Walt,. Cat. n. 124 (Araliaeea). — Mia. ^ Spec. 3. R. Br. Benn. PI. Jm. Har. 241, t. 



Fl. Ind.-Sat. i. p. i. 797.— Bi. Mua. I-ugd.- Bat. 47.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 795. 

 i. 42, t. 3,— Bedd. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 211, ^ Tf^all. Cat.n.42'62.—As.is. Edinb. New Phil. 



t. 23. ■ ' Journ. xvi. 314.— Endl. G««. n. 4697.^B. H. 



" Fdinh. New Phil. Joui-fi. xiv. 299.— Endi. Gen. 355, n. 34.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 367; 



Oeii. n. 21071.— MiERS, Ami. Nat. Sist. ser. 2, x. 267 ; Prodr. xvii. 17 .—Nansiaium Ham. (ex : 



X. 116; Contrib. i. 103, t. 18 (part.).— B. H. R. Bb. Benn. PI. lav. Bar. 24.'>). 



