Perrottetia.] RHAMNACEAE. 79 
2 or rarely 1 or more erect ovules in each cell. Styles as many as cells, 
rubs, 
or woody raepailbes with alternate or opposite simple leaves. Flowers 
small, usually 
A large Order, tea distributed over the warmer and temperate regions of the globe, 
with 2 genera in Polynesia, besides the following. 
1. PERROTTETIA, H. B. K. 
Flowers polygamo- dioecious. Calyx 5-parted, persistent, its lobes trian- 
gular, open or imbricate n the bud. Petals short triangular, valvate or 
imbricate. Stamens 5, sdaenie in the margin of the disk. Ovary ovoid, 
almost free from the disk, 2-celled, each cell with 2 erect anatropous 
ovules. Style se bifid, with recurved lobes, stigmatose inside. Berry 
globose, wit or 4 seeds. Seeds subglobose, crustaceous, with a broad 
hilum. Albumen fa ot — Unarmed shrubs, with alternate petiolate serrate 
leaves, ee stipules and axillary panicles 
A genus of 4 species, natives of the Andes, of New taicnathl and Mexico, besides the 
ng. 
andwicensis, Gray, Bot. U. S. E. Exp. p. 291, pl. 24. — A tall 
ne or small tree, 8—16 ft. high, nearly pti’ Stipules minute, 
eaducous. Leaves ovate or oblong, 3—5’ 1/2—21/2‘, on petioles of 
ats shortly acuminate, dentate or serrulate e' callcca teeth, charta- 
ceous. Panicles 2—4‘ long, with horizontal branches, the peduncle 
1—1'/2‘, the pedicels about 1“, bracteolate below the middle, setae 
Calyx 1 or less, parted to the middle into ovate imbricate lo Petals 
scarcely longer, triangular, imbricate, greenish, ciliate at the san 
Stamens twice as long in the sterile, half a tose in the fertile flowers, 
the anthers versatile, short ovoid, aoe. apparent connective. Style 
in 
globose, 2'/2—3, bright red. Seeds marked with minute transverse 
wavy lines, the dorsal rhaphe broad but not arillate. Embryo more 
than half the length of the scant fatty albumen, the thick terete radicle 
as long as the short and thick round cotyled 
In the lower and middle woods of all islands, sry common. Nat. name: «Olomeay. 
Orper XXII. RHAMNACEAE. 
Calyx 4—5-cleft, valvate, lined at the base with a disk. Petals as many, 
small unguiculate hood-shaped or rarely flat, inserted at the base of the 
lobes of the calyx and alternate with them, or rarely wanting. Stamens 
disk, 2—4-celled, with a single erect ovule in each cell, the styles free 
