251 
{ Petals of the two series similar and 
approximately of oo =) siesta 
free from each o 
prs not : eee sep- 
tate : 
Petals not united at the base, 
at most slightly connivent : 
Indumentum stellate or 
lepidote : 
Flowers on tix young 
shoots, solita 
Indumentum wiseaaee 
Trop. Afr. - 38. Meicarpidium. 
Indumentum stellatg s 
Malaya : 
Carpels several - 39. Rauwenhoffiia. 
Carpel solitary - 40. Monocarpia. 
Flowers several together 
on the old wood; petals 
sharply contracted at the 
base over the stamens and 
ed eat Malays, New 
Guin 41. Drepananthus. 
fadumaneai when saint, 
of simple hairs 
New World gen era : 
Flowers leaf-opposed or 
terminal - . . 
2. Desmopsis 
Flowers axillary ; petals 
short, broadly ovate - 43. Trigyneia. 
Old World genera : 
Fruit slender, very 
torulose or reduced to 
one seeds - - - 44. Desmos. 
Fruits thick, not toru- 
lose; petals more or 
less spreading in the 
upper ° 
Petals pointed, tri- 
angular 
gent; — — 
teate 45, Meiogyne. 
Petals linear to ob- 
ovate, spreading from 
above the broadened 
eoncave base which 
