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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

 j,'ascar or the neighbouring islands.'-' The rest come from India and 

 the Indian Archipelago/ except one observed in Australia.^ 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. Xylopie/E. — In Xj/lopia' (figs. 201-2GG) the flowers are regular 

 and hcrmaplirodito. The calyx is very short, gamosepalous, trifid to 



Xylopia (sihiopica. 

 Fig. 261. 



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

 MX petals, whose conformation is often so peculiar that they, and 



' Hook., Xtyer, 208.— Benth., loc. cit., 470- 

 479. 



» H. Hx., loc. elf. (see p. 214, notes 1-3). 



•' Hook. &, Thoms., o;,. cit., 105.— Bl., F(. 

 Jav., Anonac, t. 45. — Miq., Fl. Lid., i. p. ii. 27 ; 

 Ann. Mm. Lu<jd. Bat., ii. 20.— Walp., Ann!, 

 iv. 51 ; vii. 55. 



* Benth., Fl. Aiistnil., i. 52. 



* L., Gen., n. 1027. — Juss., Gen., 284.— 

 G^RTN., Frtict., i. 399, t. 69. — Dun., Mon., 

 121.— DC, Si/st.,i. 499 ; Prodr., i.92.— A. DC, 

 Mem., 33.— Spach, Suit, a Bvffon, vii. 506.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 4714.— B. H., Gen., 28, 958, 

 n. 32.— H. Bn., Adansonia, iv. 140; viii. 202, 

 330,Z4:0.— Finbira Pis., Brasil.,^\.— PindaiLa 

 Pis., lor. cit. — Ihira Marcg., BrasiL, 90.— 



