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CLXXXV; MONIMTACE^. 



T. Cvnoerambe. 

 Baee of stipulate leaf. 



T. OynocramJfe, 



Fruit, entire and with vertical and transverae 



sections (mag.)» 



T. Cynoerambe. 

 Seed stripped of its 

 integumentH (m^.)- 



anterior and 2 lateral tracteoles. Peeianth excentric, tubular, sub-clavate, 

 3-lobulate, traversed by the style, becoming lateral by the enlargement of the ovary. 

 OvAET 1-celled ; style lateral ; stigma clavate, undivided ; ovule solitary, basilar, 

 campylotropous. Feuit a drupe. Seed horseshoe-shaped ; testa membranous. 

 Embeto hooked, in the axis of a sub-cartilaginous albumen ; cotyledons linear, in- 

 cumbent ; radicle cylindric, inferior. 



ONLY GENUS. 

 Thelygonum. 



This genus approaclies XJrticea and Cannahitias in diclinism, its single perianth, 1-celIed 1-oviiled 

 ovary, basilar ovule, chalaza corresponding to the hilum, fleshy albumen, and stipulate leaves ; but in 

 TJftieece the ovary is free and the fruit an achene. It also recalls the apetalous Cyclospermea, and especially 

 the TetrayoniecB, the ovary of which is inferior; but it differs in the number of stamens, linear anthers, 

 basilar ovule, not farinaceous albumen, &c. 



Thelygonum is a plant of the Mediterranean region ; it is slightly acrid and purgative, and might be 

 used as an inferior potherb. 



CLXXXV. MONIMIACE^. 



(TJeticaeum genera, Jussieu. — Monimib^ et Atheeospeeme^, Br. — Monimiace^, 



Endl., Tulasne.) 



Flowbes diclinous, apetalous. Sepals 4 or more, imbricate. Stamen's oo , in- 

 serted on an ojpen or wrceolate receptacular cupule. Caepbls qo , 1-celled, 1-ovuled 

 sunlc in the cupule, or seated on it ; ovule anatropous, Eeuit a drupe or nut. Seed 



