ROSACEA. 411 



consists of trees or shrubs from tropical Asia and Malaysia. Of the 

 ten species known/ one comes from the east of tropical Asia ; they 

 have alternate persistent, entire petioLite leaves, accompanied by 

 two lateral caducous stipules. The flowers are in axillary or lateral 

 racemes, simple or made up of little cymes. 



Maddenici' is also closely analogous to Primus and Pygeum. The 

 receptacle is funnel-shaped, and bears on its edges from five to ten un- 

 equal sepals and a variable number of leaves, more or less developed, 

 which are considered as petals. The androceum is the same as in Py- 

 geum, and is very well developed in certain flowers, with only one carpel 

 to the gynseceum resembling that of Primus ; while in other flowers, 

 female or hermaphrodite, usually found on different stocks, there are 

 two carpels, each formed of a stumpy ovary without a style, and bear- 

 ing immediately on its summit an oblique layer of stigmatic papillae. 

 These last flowers produce a multiple fruit of two compressed 

 glabrous drupes, in which the thick crustaceous stone is smooth on 

 one side, three -keeled on the other, and contains a seed with a fleshy 

 exalbuminous embryo. The only known species of Maddenia is a small 

 tree from the Himalayas/ whose branches, covered with a thick rusty 

 down, bear simple alternate leaves, with glandular teeth, and two large 

 glandular petiolar stipules. The flowers are in terminal racemes. 



Prinsepia* (figs. 484, 485) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. The 

 receptacle forms a large nearly hemispherical cup on whose edges 

 are inserted five unequal sepals, quincuncially imbricated in the bud, 

 and as many alternate subunguiculate petals, also imbricated in the 

 bud, but afterwards broad and spreading. The stamens, from fifteen 

 to thirty in number, are also borne on the rim of the same cup, and 

 consist of a free filament, at first inflexed, and an introrse two-celled 

 anther dehiscing longitudinally. In the bottom of the cup is in- 

 serted the gynseceum, consisting of a one-celled ovary tapering into 

 a style dilated at the tip into a little stigmatiferous head. Tlie 

 ovules are two in number, collateral and descending, with their 

 raphes towards the placenta and the micro pyles outwards, each 



' CoiEBE., Trans. Linn. Soc, xii. 3G0, t. - HooK., F. & Thoms., Hook. Jourii., vi. 



IS.— Wight, Til, i. 203 j Icon., t. 250, 993.— 381, t. 12.— B. II., Gen., 610, n. 14. 



MiQ., Mus. Lugd. Bat., i. 212; Fl. hid. Bat., ^ M. himalaica Hook. F. k, Thoms., loc. cit. 



i. p. 1, 360. — Thw., Unum. Fl. Zeyl., lO'A.— — Walp., Ami., iv. 619. 



Benth., Fl. Rongk., 103.— Walp., ^Ee^., ii. 8 ; •• Boyle, lllustr. PI. Himal., 206, t. 3S, fig. 1. 



Ann,, 1.211; iv. 641. — F>ndl., Oen., \\. 6114. — Ci/cnia Lindl. (iicc 



GBiFF.),ex Endl., loc.cit. — B. H., (/f ».,611, n. 16. 



