170 XXIII. TEKNSTBffiMIACE^E (OLIVER). 



2-locular, erect, basifixed. Disk 0. Ovary free or rarely ^-inferior, broadly 

 sessile, 3-5-oo-locular ; styles as many as cells of the ovary, free or partially 

 or wholly connate ; stigma minute, terminal. Ovules solitary, geminate or 

 indefinite. Fruit coriaceous or woody and indehiscent or capsular. Seeds 

 with or without albumen. Embryo variously curved or straight. — Trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves usually coriaceous, alternate, simple, penniveined, serrate or 

 entire, exstipulate (rarely stipulate). Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled or 

 in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles or springing from the trunk. 



A considerable American and Asiatic Order, principally tropical, represented by but three 

 species of different genera in tropical Africa. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary, solitary. Ovary few- (4-) celled ; 



ovules numerous 1. Adinandra. 



Flowers unisexual or polygamous, springing from the trunk. 



Ovary many- (20- or more-)celled; ovules solitary 2. OmphalocarpuM. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, in a small racemose panicle. Ovary 3- 



celled; ovules solitary 3. Caraipa. 



1. ADINANDRA, Jack ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 182. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, broadly imbricate; the outer smaller 

 (passing into the 2 contiguous bracteoles). Petals 5, imbricate, slightly con- 

 nate at the base or free. Stamens indefinite (in the African species 1-senate, 

 25-30, perfectly glabrous), free, inserted with or slightly adnate to the base 

 of the petals (in the species not African, often variously connate) ; anthers 

 erect, basifixed. Ovary 3-5-celled (sometimes imperfectly) ; style elongate ; 

 stigma entire or minutely 3-5-lobulate ; ovules very numerous in each cell. 

 " Fruit indehiscent. Seeds indefinite, small, with a fleshy albumen and in- 

 flexed embryo." — Evergreen trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary, 

 axillary, pedunculate. 



A small genus, confined, with the following exception, to tropical Asia. The African 

 species differs from the only Asiatic species which I have examined in its glabrous, 1-senate, 

 free stamens, and may not improbably some day, if other African species turn up, be sepa- 

 rated generically. 



1. A. Mannii, Oliv. A glabrous tree of 30 ft. Extremities minutely 

 punctate-tubercled when dry. Leaves rather coriaceous, oval-oblong, shortly 

 acuminate, more or less rounded or narrowed at the base, minutely dentate- 

 serrulate, especially towards the apex. Peduncles solitary, axillary, at length 

 more or less recurved towards the apex, about £ in. long. Flowers l|-2 in., 

 glabrous. Sepals apparently 7 (the 2 outermost bracteoles), increasing » 

 size in gradual, broadly imbricating series ; inner sepals £ in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute. Petals elongate, linear-oblong, obtuse, at length 3 times 

 longer than the inner sepals, loosely imbricate around the style, not spreading; 

 anthers linear, with a short, truncate-emarginate, terminal apiculus, perfe ctlv 

 glabrous as are the free, subterete, 1 -seriate filaments. Ovary 4-celled, 

 gradually tapering into the long slender style, which is apparently articulated 

 below. Stigma obsoletely 4-lobulate. Ovules very numerous. Fruit no 



seen. 



Upper Guinea. Summit of the peak of the island of St. Thomas, Mann 



