Dissomeria.] LX. SAMYDACEH (MASTERS). 497 
but twice as large, persistent and connivent around the fruit. Glands 
small, broad, inserted with the petals. Stamens in fascicles of 6 before 
each petal; filaments filiform, covered with long spreading hairs, equal 
to or longer than the petals. Ovary densely hirsute, styles exserted. 
Upper Guinea. At the confluence, on the banks of the Niger, Ansell! 
5. HOMALIUM, Jacq.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 801. 
Flowers dichlamydeous, hermaphrodite. Flower-tube turbinate ad- 
nate to the base of the ovary. Sepals 5-6-7, persistent. Petals 6-7, 
emerging from the throat of the calyx, linear-oblong, flat, persistent. 
Stamens equal in number to the petals and opposite to them, or in 
greater numbers arranged in fascicles opposite to them, alternating 
with as many glands ; filaments thread-like ; anthers small, didymous. 
Ovary partly adherent; styles 2-5, thread-like; stigmas simple or 
capitellate. Ovules numerous or few, attached to 2—5-parietal Nat 
centas. Capsule partly adherent, coriaceous, 2—5-valved, few-seeded. 
Seeds angular or oblong ; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy, cotyledons 
leaty.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate or lanceolate, 
glandulose, crenate or serrate. Stipules small. Flowers small in 
slender axillary branched panicles. 
A genus whose members exist in Asia, Northern Australia, the Feejee islands, and 
‘Topical America. The following are the only representatives of the Order on the con- 
tnent of Tropical Africa, thongh others exist in Madagascar and Mauritius. 
Stamens solitary before each petal. 
Sipsice minute. Petals 3 or 4 times longer than the sepals. : 
eaves entire. Panicledense . . . ..- + + + + - 1. H. longistylum. 
amives serrated.” Panicle lav 5 00 a ea africanum. 
Stipules large, leafy. Petals twice the length of the sepals . 3. Hf, stipulaceum. 
tamens 2-7 before each petal <5 og utc st em 8 a ee 
l. H. longistylum, Mast. A small tree with rugose, lenticillate, 
eyish bark. Leaves glabrous, subcoriaceous, oblong, tapering at the 
oe into a very short petiole, abruptly acuminate, minutely serrulate, 
~—3 in. long, 1-1} in. wide. Stipules caducous. Flowers numerous, 
shortly pedicellate, in dense axillary and terminal much-branched 
Panicles not greatly exceeding the leaves in length. Peduncles and 
pedicels puberulous. Bracts setaceous, deciduous, Flower-tubes tur- 
ate, rather downy. Sepals 5, leathery, downy, triangular, pointed. 
etals 5, oblong, obtuse, 2-3 times longer than the sepals, rather 
owny. Glands small. Stamens 5, about half the length of the petals. 
vary pilose ; ovules numerous, pendulous from the BEper ends of 3-5 
Parietal placentas ; style cylindrical, as long as or longer than the 
stamens, dividing into 5 recurved stigmatic branches. 
Upper Guinea. Corisco Island, lat. 1° N., Mann! 
®. H. africanum, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 85. A middle-sized 
tree with smooth cylindrical branches, the roan shoots puberulous. 
aves on very short stalks, coriaceous, glabrous, oblong, rather obtuse, 
cordate or rounded at the base, undulate-crenate, serrate, 6-8 in. long, 
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