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sum, apice glabrum subtrilbo-stigmatosum, 3-loculare ; gemmulae 
in loculis solitariae, erectae, apotropae, campylotropae, micro- 
pyle extrorsum infera. Capsula in ramulo sympodiali brevi =b 
glabrato terminalis, pedicello brevissimo suffulta, pyriformis, 
in stipitem brevem sulcis staminum insertionibus respondentibus 
notatum attenuata, breviter apiculata, sufFerrugineo-tomentosa, 
abortu plerumque 1-locularis, ad latus loculis effoetis compres- 
sis respondens ± applanata, denique loculicide dehiscens, peri- 
carpio corticoso cellularum sclerenchymaticarum concretionibus 
crebris instructo et cellulis secretoriis substantiam oleoso-resin- 
osam foventibus persito, endocarpio sclerenchymatico transver- 
sim fibroso pilis adpressis praesertim basi prope seminis inser- 
tionem (in loculis effoetis vero undique densius) obsito; semen 
ad loculi angulum centralem prope basin insertum, obovatum, a 
lateribus compressiusculum, atro-fuscum, glabrum, exarillatum, 
testa Crustacea laevi intus in protuberantias nodosas partim 
literae T figuram aemulantes versus seminis centrum protrusas 
(quodammodo illis in Anonacearum seminibus endospermium 
ruminatum efficientibus similes) producta (unde generis nomen). 
Embryo curvatus (ut videtur, notorrhizus), cotyledonibus (in 
semine observato nondum plane evolutis tenuibus) testae protu- 
berantiis arete applicitis, radicula in seminis dorso descendente 
plica testa profunda excepta. 
Arbor; rami teretiusculi, superne 5-sulcati, ut et petioli 
paniculaeque pilis brevibus basi dilatata collapsis hyalinis cete- 
rum materie fusca repletis sufferrugineo-tomentelli. Folia 
abrupte pinnata, longiuscule petiolata, petiolo supra sulco ex- 
arato subtus convexo striolato; foliola 5-6, larga, subopposita, 
late elliptica, breviter obtuse acuminata, in petiolulos longius- 
culos basi incrassatos abruptius attenuata, integerrima, char- 
tacea, nervis lateralibus utrinque ca, 9 oblique vel superioribus 
arcuatim adscendentibus, subtus prominentibus, glabra, utrinque 
opaca, supra pallide subfusca, subtus viridula, ad paginam supe- 
riorem hypodermate hie illic interrupto tannine crystallisque 
destitute instructa, diachymate praeter strata inferiora chlor- 
ophyllophora tanninigero cellulis secretoriis parvis substantiam 
oleoso-resinosam gerentibus laxe persito, epidermide non muci- 
gera, Paniculae axillares, sat amplae, ramis thyrsoideis dense 
cincinnos sessiles glomeruliformes gerentibus, bracteis bracteo- 
lisque perparvis ovatis obtusiusculis. Alabastra globosa, ses- 
silia. 
Species 1, philippinensis. 
Genus calyce parvo et semine exarillato accedens ad genus 
