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III. DOMBEYE.E. 



12. Dombeya Cav. — Flowers hermaphrodite, usually 5-merous ; 

 calyx 5-partite, valvate, finally reflexed. Petals 5, of unequal sides, 

 contorted, usually persistent, finally pergameneous or scarious. Sta- 

 mens 15-30 (or more rarely more); filaments connate in column at 

 base, sometimes cupuliform, sometimes elongate tubular ; 5 sterile, 

 ligulate, oppositipetalous ; 10-25 fertile, alternating in pairs, or by 

 3-5 with the staminodes ; anthers extrorse, 2-celled, 2-rimose. 

 Ovary free ; cells 5, alternipetalous, or rarely 2-4 ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell, ascending ; micropyle extrorse, inferior ; style divided at a 

 greater or less height into 5 branches stigmatiferous at apex. 

 Capsule 2-5-celled, loculicidal. Seeds 1, 2, in each cell, ascending; 

 embiyo albuminous ; cotyledons foliaceous, 2-partite ; radicle in- 

 ferior. — Shrubs or small trees ; leaves alternate, stipulate, palmi- 

 nerved, often cordate ; flowers in axillary or terminal, loose or capi- 

 tate, corymbiform or umbelliferous cymes ; inflorescence sometimes 

 with bracts (Asfrapaa) widely involucrate ; bractlets 3, under each 

 flower, unilateral, caducous, sometimes connate {Tropical Southern 

 continental and insular Oriental Africa, Trop. Asia ?). See p. 69. 



13. Trochetia DC. 1 — Flowers nearly of Dombeya; sepals coria- 

 ceous. Stamens fertile between the staminodes 2- oo, more rarely 5 ; a 

 cells parallel. Ovary 3-5-celled ; cells 2 or oftener ex -ovulate ; 

 branches of style thick radiate, stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule 

 loculicidal 5-valved ; cells 2-oo -spermous. — Shrubs or small trees; 

 leaves alternate entire coriaceous ; flowers 3 axillary solitary or few 

 (often 3), sometimes oc, cymose, often pendulous {St. Helena? 

 Tropical insular Oriental Africa 5 ). 



14? Astiria Lindl. 6 — Flowers of Dombeya ; stamens 20-30, all 



1 DC, in Mem. Mus., x. 106, t. 7, 8 ; Prodr., 4 Species 2, now said to be extinct. 



i. 499.— Tuup., in Diet. So. Nat., Atl., t. 145.— 5 Bot. Reg. (1844), t. 21. — Bot. Mag., t. 



Eni>l., Gen., n. 5351.— B. H., Gen., 222, 983, 1000.— Boj., Rort. Maur., 41.— H. B.v., in 



n. 17. Adansonia, z. 108. — W'alp., Rep., v. 114. 



2 " In spec, helenicis." (B. H.) 6 Bot. Reg. (1844), t. 49.— B. H., Gen., 221, 



3 Large, beautiful, often white or yellowish. n. 14. 



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