202 PHANEROGAMIA. 



cular, thickish : radicle about the length of the cotyledons, pointing 

 to the hilum. 



The pod of this remarkable new Tiliaceous genus bears no slight 

 resemblance to some bivalve shell ; which has suggested the name, 

 composed of Sixkk, a double door, and xap*6e, fruit. The specific name 

 is in honour of the Botanist of the Expedition, Mr. Rich, who had 

 indicated it as a new genus. The drawings from which the engraving 

 is executed, were in part made under his superintendence, by the 

 lamented Mr. Agate. 



Plate 14. — Diclidocarpus Richii. Fig. 1. Branchlet of the sterile 

 plant with flower buds, of the natural size. 2. A fruit-bearing 

 branchlet, of the natural size. 3. Portion of the lower surface of a 

 leaf, magnified, to show the minute stellular pubescence. 4. A 

 cymule from fig. 1, magnified. 5. Diagram (transverse section of the 

 flower with its three bractlets). 6. Vertical section of a flower-bud 

 of a sterile flower. 7. The caly cuius of three bractlets, detached. 8. 

 Flower-bud with the calyculus and calyx removed, one of the sepals 

 also shown. 9. A petal from the same. 10. The globular cluster of 

 stamens, seen after the petals are removed. 11. Vertical section of 

 the pistil of a perfect ? flower, and the receptacle, with two of the 

 stamens and some of the hairs that surround the ovary left in place. 

 12. A (fertile?) pistil, with the receptacle and some of the hypo- 

 gynous hairs. 13. A sterile pistil, &c. — All these details variously 

 magnified. 14. A dehiscent capsule, of the natural size. 15. Trans- 

 verse section of a capsule. 16. One of the valves of the capsule, 

 seen from within, with the seeds. 17. A seed with its persistent 

 funiculus seen on the ventral side, enlarged. 18. Dorsal view of the 

 same. 19. Vertical section of the same. 20. A seed transversely 

 divided. 21. The embryo, magnified. 



6. EL^OCARPUS, Linn. 

 1. El^eocarptjs (Monocera) cyaneus, Sims. 



IJlceocarpus cyanceus, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1737; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 519. 

 E. reticulatus, Smith; Ker. Bot. Beg. t. 657. 



