464 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



branching many-flowered racemes ; peduncles and pedicels hirtellate 

 (East India, Java). See p. 404. 



111. Octomeles Miq. — Flowers dioecious, 8-merous. Eeceptacle 

 of male flower concave hemispherical ; calyx 8 -dentate. Petals (?) 

 8, small, alternate, inserted with calyx in throat of receptacle. 

 Stamens 8, oppositisepalous ; filaments free, dilated at base ; anthers 

 large recurved, laterally 2-rimose. Eeceptacle of female flower 

 tubular, obscurely 8-gonous, bearing calyx at dilated apex. Germen 

 adnate to receptacle, concave at apex, crowned with 8 oppositi- 

 sepalous divaricated styles, dilated at stigmatose apex ; placentas 8, 

 parietal, alternisepalous, more or less prominent within, x> -ovulate. 

 Fruit coriaceous ; seeds go . . .? — A lofty tree, lepidote-furfuraceous ; 

 twigs thick ; leaves long-petiolate cordate-acuminate entire ; flowers 

 in simple robust much elongated axillary cernuous racemes {Indian 

 Arch ijj el ago). See p. 405. 



