238 XXVI. STERCULiACE^ (MASTERS). [Scaphopetalum. 



Upper Guinea. Mount John, Kongui river, Matm ! 

 Distinguished from its congeners by the peculiar form of the leaves. 



13. LEPTONYCHIA, Turcz. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 

 237 et 983. 



Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, very short, concave, somewhat fleshy, cohe- 

 rent at the margins. Stamens 25 ; filaments united below; margin of the 

 tube divided into 5 short subulate staminodes, opposite to the sepals, and 5 

 phalanges opposite to the petals, each phalange consisting of 2 fertile stamens 

 and 2 antherless filaments placed outside the fertile stamens. Anthers 2- 

 celled, oblong. Ovary 3-(5-)celled. Ovules numerous, attached in two 

 vertical rows to the inner angle of each cell. Style cylindrical. Stigma mi- 

 nute, 3-(5-)toothed. Fruit oblong or subglobose, 3-celled, loculicidally 3- 

 valved. Seeds 1 in each cell, large ; testa black, covered by a red spongy 

 aril ; albumen horny. Embryo straight. Eadicle pointing to the hilum. 

 Cotyledons flat, foliaceous, subcordate, obscurely lobed, 3-costate. Plumule 

 inconspicuous. — A shrub with shining evergreen, entire leaves. Flowers 

 white, in axillary cymes. 



A genus, established by Turczaninow on some species natives of Malacca and the Indian 



Archipelago. 



Leaves on short stalks, rounded at the base, oblong-acuminate . . . 1. Z. urophyJIa. 



Leafstalks at least an inch long. Leaves tapering at the base, lanceo- 

 late 2. Z. lanceolafa. 



1. L. urophylla, Welw. mss. A shrub 5-6 ft. in height, with loosely 

 spreading branches. Leafstalks ^-|- in. long. Stipules subvdate, pilose, 

 as long as the petioles, deciduous. Leaves 4-5 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, 

 evergreen {JFelv'iisch), roundish at the base, oblong, acuminate, smooth, 

 1-costate, smaller veins arcuate-reticulate. Flowers in axillary cymes. Pe- 

 duncles shorter than the petioles, dividing into 2 or 3 pedicels, shorter than 

 the flow^ers. Flower-buds oblong, acute, prismatic. Sepals 5, distinct, ob- 

 long, acute, downy, about \ in. in length. Petals one-fourth the length of 

 the sepals, thick, roundish, concave, ciliate, coherent at the margins. Sta- 

 mens 25, in two rows?, coherent below into a short tube, half the length of 

 the ovary, divided above into 5 subulate staminodes placed alternately with 

 the petals and about equal to them in length, and into 5 phalanges, placed 

 opposite to the petals and alternating with the short staminodes, each pha- 

 lange is composed of 2 inner antheriferous filaments, nearly equalling the 

 sepals, and of 2 antherless filaments placed rather externally to the fertde sta- 

 mens and rather shorter than them. Ovary 3-(5- ?)lobed, oblong, villose, 

 3-5-celled; placentas axile. Ovules. . . . Style cylindrical as long as the 

 stamens. Stigma minute, terminal, 3-(5-)toothed. ('apsule oblong obtuse 

 or subglobose, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved ; valves oblong, obtuse, coria- 

 ceo-ligneous, rugose and stellately tomentose on the exterior, shining and 

 puckered on the inner surface. Seeds 1 in each cell, pendulbus (?), \ in. long, 

 oblong, acute, subtriquetrous, with a black shining testa, nearly covered with 

 a spongy scarlet aril. 



