MENI8PEBMAGEJE. 



Triclisia 

 subeordata. 



Only the female flowers of Sciadotania 1 are known. They come 

 very near those of the preceding genera, possessing a triple or quad- 

 ruple calyx and six petals, to which as many sterile stamens are super- 

 posed. But the fruit consists of a variable number of drupes (some- 

 times as high as twelve), supported on club-shaped feet, and free or 

 connate at the base ; each contains a horseshoe shaped seed. The 

 three described species 2 inhabit Guiana and the neighbouring parts 

 of Brazil. 



Pleogyne? whereof only a single Australian species 4 is known, has 

 a double or triple calyx, the three internal sepals of 

 which are the largest, as in Chondodendron. The 

 androceum is reduced to three stamens alternating: 

 with these large sepals. The fruit consists of from 

 three to six drupes with the scar of the style lateral, 

 containing a reniform seed with superficially confer- 

 ruminate cotyledons. 



Triclisia? a genus confined as yet to the west of 

 Tropical Africa, has a calyx of from nine to twelve 

 stamens, with the three innermost largest and more 

 or less petaloid and valvate. The corolla is wanting and the 

 androceum consist of six stamens or of only three, 6 through 

 the absence of those superposed to the three innermost sepals. 

 The filaments are free ; the connective is apiculate or muti- 

 cous, gibbous and thickened above and outside, and the anther- 

 cells are introrse but nearly lateral. The fruit consists of an 

 unknown number of drupes, and is characterized by their beino- 

 straight, with the scar of the style nearly terminal/ while the 

 prominence of the inner wall of the stone near the attachment of 

 the seed is very slight. The fleshy embryo, straight or bowed, 

 consists almost wholly of a single much developed cylindrical coty- 

 ledon ; the other cotyledon being very small and occupjdng the 



Fig. 14. 

 Embryo (A). 



1 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 43 ; 4 P. aiistralis Miees. — Benth. Fl Austral 

 ser. 3, xix. 325.— B. H., Gen., 3D, 964, i. 58. 



n. 29. 5 Benth., in B. H., Gen., 39, 963, n. 27.— 



2 Eichl., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Menisp., 201, H. Bn„ in Adansonia, is. 316. 



t. 47. 6 Only in one doubtful species. T. ? patens 



3 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 43 ; Olit. 



ser. 3, xix. 22. — B. H., Gen., 963, n. 27 a. — "' In T. subeordata Olit., the only species in 



Microclisia Benth., Gen., add., 435, n. 27 a. which it has been possible to study them. 



