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NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



species. Ten come from tropical and southern Africa' and Mada- 

 gascar or the neic^hbouring islands.* The rest come from India and 

 the Indian Archipehij^^o,^ except one observed in Austraha.' They 

 are small trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves, and flowers solitary 

 or collected into cymes or clusters of cymes, sometimes axillary or 

 lateral, sometimes terminal or leaf-opposed. 



C. Xyloimk.e. — \n Xi/lopia^ (figs. 2G1-:?GG) the flowers are rej^ular 

 and hermaphrodite. The calyx is very short, gamosepalous, tritid to 



Xylopia (fthiopica. 

 Fio. 261. 



a variable depth, and valvate in lestivation. The corolla consists of 

 SIX petals, whose conrorination is olten so peculiar that they, and 



' IluoK., Siijer, 20S.— Henth., Ioc cit., 170- 

 47i>. 



» H. Hn., Ioc. eil. (»ec p. 211, nott-n 1-3). 



•' ll()(iK. A TiioMH., op. cit., 1()5. — Hi,., f/. 

 Jar., Anoiuic, t. lo. — Mig., Fl. Iiiil., i. p. ij. 'Zl ; 

 Ann. MiM. Luiid. Bat., ii. 20.— Wai.i-., .•/,)«.' 

 iv. 51 ; vii. r>.'). 



' Hk.mii., H. Auatitil., i. :,•>. 



* L., Oen., n. 1027. — J Css., ««•»., 281.- 

 G^RTN., Fi-vcL, i. 399, t. fi«J.— DvN.. Mon., 

 121.— DC, S}ist.,\. 45»i»; Pro,ir.. i.l)2.-.\. IH'.. 

 Mihn., 33.— Si'ACll. Suit, ti liuffon, vii. WK).— 

 Kndl.. Otn., n. 471 1.— H. H.. U'-n., 28. J»58. 

 n. 32.— 11. Hn.. AdanMinia. iv. 1 Ml; viii. 202. 

 330. 3 M).- Emhira IMs., Iii;isil.,l\.- I'indaihn 

 1*18.. Ioc. cit.—ll.im Mai»o.. lira-ril., JH». 



