340 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



gynous perianth, accrescent in sacciform gamophyllous calyptra coni- 

 cal or long produced beyond pericarp in tube 4 -dentate at apex, 

 style apieulate, outwardly rugose-setaceous ; mesocarp thia ; puta- 

 men outwardly rugose-setaceous ; mesocarp thin ; putamen out- 

 wardly foveolate, inwardly produced into woody prickles penetrating 

 the seed ; seed and embryo of Pyretiacantha. — Scandent hirsute 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate simple petiolate penninerved ; female 

 flowers capitate or shortly spicate ; receptacle of capitule hard thick ; 

 capitules pedunculate lateral solitary or racemose ; bracts longer 

 than flower reflexed.^ {Trop. Africa?) 



66. lodes Bl.* — Flowers dioecious ecalyculate {Gymniodes*) or of- 

 tener calyculate [Eviodes,^ Lasiodes ^) ; lobes of gamophyllous perianth 

 sometimes [Lasiodes) surrounded at base by a dense crown of hairs, 3 or 

 offcener4, 5, valyate, outwardly densely villous, finally expanded, re- 

 flexed or revolute persistent round fruit. Stamens 3-5, alternate ; 

 filaments free, sometimes complanate, usually short, inserted below 

 rudiment of gynseceum; anthers straight -[Lasiodes, Eviodes) or 

 more rarely ( Gymniodes) cochleate-reflexed, introrse, 2-rimose. Ger- 

 men inserted in dilated receptacle 2-ovulate ; obturator small ; style 

 sessile, afterwards thick discoid dilated or subreniform; concave 

 radiate - oo - sulcate at apex, more rarely laterally obovate excentric. 

 Drupe surrounded at base by perianth and sometimes by calycule ; 

 mesocarp thin ; seed albuminous ; cotyledons of embryo rising one 

 half above the albumen, foliaceous; radicle short superior. — Shrubs; 

 usually high scandent, villous or tomentose ; leaves opposite entire 

 penninerved; inflorescence pedunculate cymose-racemose ; male 

 flowers very ramose abundant ; peduncles axillary or with 1, 2 buds 

 elevate-supra-axUlary sometimes lateral to leaves, slender or thick 

 ligneous ; inferior often changed into tendrils ; flowers (small) villose- 

 ciliate articulate at summit of pedicel, or calyculate [Eviodes, 

 Lasiodes) ; epicalyx minute unequally-dentate, or ( Gymniodes) ecaly- 

 culate. [Asia, Oceania and Trop. Africa and Madagascar.'') 



67? Cardiopterys Wall.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite regular; 



' A genus differing mainly from allied 262 ; Prodr. 22. 

 Pyrenacantha by inferior fruit, enclosed by * H. Bn. Prodr. 23, sect. 2. 



accrescent perianth. * H. Bn. Adansonia, x. 267 ; Prodr. sect. 1. 



2 Spec. 2. OLrc. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 359 {Phyto- 6 H. Bn. Adansonia, x. 268 ; Prodr. sect. 3. 

 crene ?). ' Spec. ad. 6 Pl. Hoot:. Journ. v. 247 {Nan- 



3 Bijdr. 29. — E. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. siatum). — Mia. PL Ind.-Sat. i. p. i. 795. — Oliv. 

 243, t. 48.— Endl. Gm. n. 4689.— B. H. &en. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 358.— H. Bn. Adamonia, ix. 146. 

 355, n. 36.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 364; x. ' Gat. n. 8033. — Lrap. Introd. 82. — K, Br. 



