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base, 2-celled ; the cells anteriorly gibbous and bursting longitudinally. 
Ovary adnate to the tube of the calyx, 4-celled, many-ovuled. Style single, 
declinate, about as long as the stamina. Stigma conical and rather obtuse’: 
capsule fleshy, 4-celled, many-seeded. Placents as many as the cells, con- 
vex, parietal.—Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, 3-nerved. Flowers pani- 
cled, corymbose, or somewhat capitate. 
The new genus without a name in Roxburgh's Flora Indica, v. 2. p 225, seems 
to be the same as the present. Astronium of Blume appears also very closely allied, 
but to differ by having a peltate stigma, 5-6 petals, 10-12 stamens, and the placenta 
situated at the base of each cell. 
* 1004. (1) P. capitellata (Jack :) flowers sessile, collected into little heads. 
—Jack in Mal. misc. 2. app. p. 3 ; Wall.? L. n. 4079. 
The above character is taken from Jack's paper, but Dr Wallich is uncer- 
tain whether the specimen from the Madras herbarium be the same: we have 
seen neither. 
ORDER LXIIL—ALANGIEJE. DC. 
Calyx campanulate, 5—10-toothed. Petals as many as the segments 
of the calyx, linear, reflexed : estivation twisted. Stamens long, ex- 
serted, once, twice, or four times as many as the petals: filaments dis- 
tinct: anthers introrse, two-celled, often sterile. Ovarium globose, 
cohering with the tube of the calyx, 1—2-celled : ovules solitary, pendu- 
lous : style 1, subulate, expanded at the base into a thick coloured 
fleshy disk covering the top of the ovary: stigma dilated. Berry (ba- 
lausta) oval, coherent with the tube of the calyx, and somewhat crown- 
ed by its limb, fleshy, slightly ribbed, 1-2-celled : endocarp sometimes 
osseous, and separating from the sarcocarp like a putamen. Seeds so- 
litary, pendulous. Albumen fleshy. Embryo straight: radicle supe- 
rior: cotyledons flat, foliaceous.— Trees. Leaves alternate, exstipu- 
late, entire, not dotted. Flowers few, axillary, fascicled, shortly pe- 
duncled. 
The portion of the torus between the calyx and ovary, to which the stamens and 
. Petals are attached, is of a different colour and texture from the above-menti 
*P!gynous disk, which induces us to refer the latter to the style, not to the torus. 
I. ALANGIUM. Lam.—Angolamia, Scop. 
_ Calyx 5-10-toothed. Petals 5-10. Stamens twice or more times as many 
_ 48 the petals : filaments very hairy towards the base. Ovary 1-celled : ovule 
. Solitary. Drupe 1-seeded.—Some of the branches occasionally become spi- 
. Méscent. Young branches, petioles, and, nerves, puberulous. : Leaves obtuse 
or acute and nearly equal at the base, reticulated on the under side with 
_ transverse veins. ds 
1005. (1) A. dee Lam. :) leaves narrow-oblong, sometimes shortly 
: Mid TAR lare tag com d occi en ; DC. prod. 3. p. 203; Spr. 
WS. 2. p. 602 ; Wall.! L. n. 6884 ; Wight! cat. n. 1062, 1063,—A. hexapeta 
: Las Bab. y Ind. 2. p. 802; in E. 1C. mus. dab OR a agr" a 
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