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longer than calyx, valvate. Stamens 10 (of Cnestis) ; filaments con- 

 nate close to base. Carpels 5, oppositipetalons sessile ; style slender 

 elongated; apex thickened, entire or 2-lobed, stigmatiferous. Capsule 

 solitary sessile velvety, glabrous within. Seed furnished at base 

 with a fleshy adnate dimidiate aril. — A velvety-pubescent tree or 

 shrub ; leaves alternate-imparipinnate ; flowers axillary and terminal, 

 in crowded branched many-flowered cymiferous racemes ; pedicels 

 bracteate at base {Panama, Mexico). See p. 7. 



6. Taeniochlsena Hook. F. — Calyx 5-partite ; sepals inserted on a 

 small hemispherical or obconical receptacle, revolute in the fruit, 

 valvate in aestivation. Petals long ligulate glabrous. Stamens 1 0, 

 and carpels 5 (of Cnestis). " Capsules 1-3 sessile ovoid subcom- 

 pressed obtuse pubescent, quite glabrous within. Seed oblong, base 

 supported on an adnate dimidiate aril ; testa shining ; cotyledons 

 amygdaloid." — A subscandent shrub ; branches glabrous ; leaves 

 imparipinnate quite glabrous ; leaflets subsessile oblong, 2-lobed at 

 apex, coriaceous ; flowers axillary cymoso-racemose ; inflorescence to- 

 mentose, shorter than the leaf ; pedicels slender (Malaysia). See p. 7. 



7. Manotes Soland. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle conical, 

 produced beyond corolla into a slender erect column bearing carpels 

 at its apex. Calyx 5-partite valvate. Petals 5, alternate linear 

 longer than sepals, imbricated in aestivation, caducous. Stamens 

 10, inserted below carpels, free, oppositipetalous stamens shorter ; 

 anthers introrse 2-rimose, finally reflexed. Carpels 5, oppositi- 

 petalous ; ovaries free, borne on summit of column ; styles linear 

 reflexed ; apices capitate stigmatiferous ; ovules 2, collateral, inserted 

 either at base or at a variable height on internal angle of ovary, 

 orthotropous or subanatropous ; micropyle superior. Capsules 1-5 

 borne on a common stalk, separately stipitellate, reflexed ; pericarp 

 subdrupaceous ; epicarp pubescent ; mesocarp thin ; endocarp woody, 

 much shorter than mesocarp, finally dehiscing as a follicle ventrally. 

 Seed subanatropous descending ; external integument cellular even ; 

 albumen hard copious ; embryo green inverted ; radicle short superior ; 

 cotyledons foliaceous. — Trees or shrubs, pubescent ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate ; flowers in compound cymiferous, terminal or axillary 

 racemes; pedicels bracteolate articulated {Western Tropical Africa). 

 See p. 8. 



