492 LX. SAMYDACEH (MASTERS). 
Orper LX. SAMYDACEA. (By Dr. Maxwell T. Masters.) 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Flower-tube coriaceous, adnate to 
or separate from the ovary. Sepals 3-7, persistent, imbricate or val- 
vate. Petals equal in number to the sepals or rarely more numerous, 
usually similar to them and springing from the throat of the flower- 
tube, marcescent accrescent or sometimes absent. Disk perigynous or 
hypogynous, cup-like ; annular or glandulose. Stamens definite or m- 
definite in one or many rows, alternating with an equal number of 
staminodes, or grouped in fascicles opposite to the petals; filaments 
thread-like distinct or connate below into a tube; anthers didymous 
oblong, bursting inwardly by two chinks. Ovary free or attached to 
the base of the flower-tube, sessile, 1-celled, surmounted either by a 
single consolidated style, which is entire or 3-fid at the summit, or 
more rarely by 3—5 distinct styles ; stigmas simple or capitate. Ovules 
few or numerous attached to 3-5 parietal placentas often near the 
upper end of the ovarian cavity only ; anatropous, pendulous or ascend- 
ing; micropyle superior; raphe lateral or ventral. Fruit capsular 
or indehiscent, coriaceous or fleshy, 1-celled, 1- or many-seeded, par- 
tially or completely 3—5-valved, valves alternating with the placentas. 
Seeds few, oblong or angular, ascending or pendulous with a central or 
lateral hilum; arillus fleshy entire or torn; testa crustaceous or Corl- 
aceous, black, striate or rugose. Albumen abundant fleshy. Embryo 
axile, shorter than the albumen; cotyledons oblong, orbicular or cot- 
date, often foliaceous; radicle very short or elongate, terete.—Trees 
or shrubs, glabrous pubescent or tomentose. Leaves stalked, simple, 
alternate, distichous, often with pellucid circular and linear spots, entire 
or serrate, teeth often glandular. Stipules small, often deciduous 
wanting, rarely leafy. Flowers inconspicuous, racemose panicled oF 
tufted, stalked ; pedicels jointed, bracteolate. 
= Order whose members are for the most part natives of the Tropics of both hemi- 
spheres. 
Tre 1. Caseariese.— Leaves alternate. Calyx 4-5-merous. Petals none. Stamens 
6-15, springing from the margin of the flower-tube in a single row. Stamino 
equal in number to the fertile stamens, and alternating with them. 
Stamens 6-15, combined into a tube below. Style simple, 3-lobed 
or entire at the apex. Flowers tufted . 1, CAsEARIA. 
Tre 2. Banareze.— Leaves alternate. Calyx free, 4-5-merous. Petals 4-5 oF 
more. Stamens numerous, in many rows, springing from a perigynous disc. 
Calyx 3-parted, imbricate. Petals 7-10. Stamens short. Leaves 
entire. Flowers in short spikes 2, PyraMIDOCARPUS- 
Tripe 3. Homalieze.—Leaves alternate. Flower-tube free or more or less adnate 
to the ovary. Sepals and petals, 4-15 distinct. Stamens equal in number to t 
petals, opposite to them, or more numerous and collected in tufts in front of them, 
alternating with glands placed opposite to the sepals. 
* Ovary free. 
Petals equal in number to the sepals. Stamens more numerous. 
Seeds covered with cottony hairs . 3. Brysia. 
