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times almost wholly absent ; and the stamens, nearly the same in 

 form as those of Pferospermum, are echeloned upon the exterior of 

 the common tube formed by the non-free portion of the filaments. 

 The ovary is divided into from four to twelve pluriovulate cells, and 

 the fruit is a woody, loculicidal, polyspermous capsule, with winged 

 seeds. The six or seven known species 1 are Indian trees, with 

 axillary flowers, solitary or grouped in cymes. 



In the two genera TJngeria and Beevesia the general organization 

 is very analogous to that of Kleinhovia and Pterospermum, but the 

 anthers are inserted, as in Sterculia, directly under the gynseceum, 

 borne at the summit of the general column. In Beevesia 2 each of the 

 ovary cells contains two ascending ovules, with inferior and exterior 

 micropyle ; and the capsular, woody, loculicidal fruit contains as 

 many as ten winged, albuminous seeds. It consists of trees of 

 tropical and subtropical Asia, with flowers arranged in terminal 

 racemose cymes : a couple of species of them are enumerated. 3 In 

 Ungeria? of which there is but one species, 5 a native of Norfolk 

 Island ; the fruit is a woody capsule, with five prominent angles, 

 like thick narrow longitudinal wings ; and the non-winged seeds are 

 solitary in each cell, this being uniovulate in the flower. 



III. DOMBEYA SEEIES. 



The flowers of Dombeyc? (figs. 98-101) are regular, hermaphrodite, 

 and generally pentamerous. Their calyx is valvate/ and their corolla 

 formed of contorted, 8 often unsymmetrical 9 petals. The androceum is 



1 Wall., PI. As. Itar., i. t. 64. — Wight, Icon., Payer Fam. Nat., 288. — Assonia Cav., Diss., 

 t. 882 (Microchlcena).—WALP., Rep., i. 351. 120, t. 42.— DC, Prodr., i. 498.— Endl., Gen., 



2 Lindl., in Quart. Journ. (1827), iii. 109; n. 5345. — Vahlia Dahl, Obs., 40 (nee Thunb.). 

 in Pot. Peg., t. 1236. — Schott et Endl., — Kmnigia Commers., mss. — Xeropetalum Del., 

 Melet., 31.— Endl., Gen., n. 5318.— B. H. Cent. PL CailL, 84.— Endl., Gen., n. 5347.— 

 Gen., 219, n. 7. Astrapoea Lindl., Collect., t. 14; Pot. Reg., 



3 Hook., in Pot. Mag., t. 4199.— Walp., t. 691.— Endl., Gen., n. 5349.— H. Bn., in 

 Rep., i. 334. Adansonia, ii. 173. — Hilsenbergia Boj., in Ann. 



* Schott et Endl., Melet., 27, t. 4. — Endl., Sc. Nat., ser. 2, xviii. 189. 



Gen., n. 5317. — B. H., Gen., 219, n. 8. 7 The sepals, glabrous, or bearing stellate 



5 U.floribunda ScnoTT et Endl., loc. cit. hairs outside, are often reflexed at anthesis. 



6 Cav., Diss., iii. 121, t. 38-41. — J., Gen , 8 Often persistent and becoming round the 

 277.— Cektn., Fruct., ii. 259, t. 137. — Lame., fruit, dry and stiff as parchment. 



III. t. 137. DC, Prodr., i. 498. — Spach, 9 Such is their number in D. decanthera Cav., 



Suit, a' Puffon, iii. 447.— Endl., Gen., n. 5346. Diss., iii. 126, t. 40, fig. 2 ;—(3Ielkania decan- 



— B. H., Gen., 221, 983, n. 15.— H. Bn., in thera DC, Prodr., i. 499, n. 1). which appears 



