MALVACE2E. 



137 



3, sessile, oppositipetalous, 2-eelled ; cells separate, more or less irre- 

 gularly congested, 1 extrosely rimose. Ovary sessile, 5-celled; styles 

 connate in subulate cone, minute stigmatiferous at apex ; cells co- 

 ovulate. 2 Fruit ? — Small trees ; leaves alternate, petiolate, ob- 

 long, entire ; flowers 3 in pedunculate cymes growing from the wood, 

 sometimes very long or axillary, short {Tropical and Western 

 Africa' 1 ). 



31. Leptonycliia Turcz. 5 — Sepals 5, reduplicate, valvate. Petals 

 same in number, alternate, short, concave, rather thick valvate, 

 inserted at a little height. Stamens 1 5-co , connate at base in 

 short urceolus, 5 sterile, antherless, small, interior, alternipetalous ; 

 other in 5-phalanges, oppositipetalous ; 2 fertile in each ; fila- 

 ments elongate-subulate ; anther-cells 2, extrorse, sublateral, 2- 

 rimose ; exterior to preceding 2-4 antherless. Grermen free ; cells 

 5, oppositipetalous, or more rarely 3, 4, cc -ovulate j , style slender, 

 subulate, not swollen at apex, more or less 3-5-fid. Fruit cap- 

 sular, loculicidal, 3-5-valved; seeds arillate ; embryo straight; 

 cotyledons thick foliaceous, obscurely lobed, 3-costate ; albumen 

 corneous. — Shrubs or small trees ; leaves alternate, entire, penni- 

 nerved, sometimes 3-nerved at base ; stipules very small or very 

 caducous ; flowers 6 in short axillary cymes, often few flowered 

 (Tropical and Western Africa and Indian Archipelago 7 ). 



32. Abroma Jacq. 8 — Calyx 5-partite, valvate. Petals 5 ; claw 

 dilated, concave, interior wide glanduliferous, traversed by vertical 

 prominent (coloured) lines ; laminse stipitate, sometimes spathulate, 

 finally patent ; prsefloration contorted. Stamens connate in urceolus ; 

 lobes 5, antherless, alternipetalous, sometimes obcordate ; anthers 



1 Anthers 6, 1-cellcd (?). 



2 Ovules " amphitropous" in adult flower 

 1-seriate. 



3 " Bright vellow." In L. longepedunculata 

 Mast., peduncles thence laden with filamentous 

 rootlets or abortive (?) pedicels. 



4 Spec. 3, Mast., in Ollv. Fl. Trop. Aft:, i. 

 236. 



5 In Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 222.— B. H., 

 Gen., 237, n. 25, 983, n. 30 b.— Oudem., in 

 Compt. Rend. Ac. Sc, ser. 2, i. tab.— Eocq., in 



Adansonia, vii. 35. — Binnendykia Kunz, in 

 Nat. Tijd. v. Ned. Ind., ser. nov., in. 164. 



6 White. 



7 Spec. 4, of which 2 are African, Mast., in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 238.— Walp., Ann., vii. 

 449. 



8 Sort. Vindob., iii. t. 1. — J., Gen., 276. — 

 Gjertn., Fruct., i. 306, t. 64.— DC, Prodr., 

 i. 485. — Endl., Gen., n. 5330. — B. H., Gen., 

 225, 983, n. 27. — Ambroma L. f., Suppl. 341. 

 —Lame., Diet., i. 126 ; III, t. 636, 637.— Has- 

 tingia Kcen. (ex Endl). 



