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 652 PLANTvE JAVANIC.E RARIORES.

cephalum of Blume), and to form of these two genera the new family of Phytocrenece. It is remarkable that he did not also include in this family Sarcostigma, which so ob- viously belongs to it : this has been recently done by M. Planchon, who also justly proposes to add lodes, appended by Blume to Menispermete, as well as Miquelia or Jenhinsia, which he regards as distinct genera, but which I think ought to be united. He also includes Pyrenacantha, pro- perly united with Adelanthus of Endlicher ; but this genus I exclude, admitting, however, its near relationship.

Of Phytocrenece so constituted I subjoin the distin- guishing characters of the family, as well as the differential characters of the genera belonging to it.

PhytocrenejE, Arnott, in Edinb. New Phil. Joum. xvi, p. 314 (1834).

Flores diclines (dioici), inconspicui. Perianthium duplex {Calyx et Corolla) utrumque 4 — 5-fidum, calycinum ; in- terius majus, sestivatione valvata, intra exterius in quibus- dam pedicellatum . M a s c . Slam ina 4 — 5, laciniis perian thii interioris alternantia; filamenta nunc hypogyna et ipsa basi coalita, nunc tubo perianthii inserta; Anther ce : loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Rudimentum pislilli. Fem. . Ovarium liberum, uniloculare, biovulatum ; ovulis ab apice cavitatis suspensis. Stigma sessile, indivisum v. bifidum. Drupa monosperma. Albumen semini conforme; Embryo magnitudine fere albuminis, cotyleclonibus foliaceis.

Frutices volubiles v. scandentes ; foliis alternis raro oppo- sitis, integerrimis v. lobatis, exstipulatis.

Phytocrene, JFallich, PL Asiat. rar. vol. hi, p. 11, t. 216.

Flores utriusque sexus 4-fidi, capitati. Stamina hypo- gyna. Antherce versatiles. . Stigma bilobum, obtusum. Folia indivisa v. lolala.

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