138 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



oppositipetalous, superposed between staminodes 2-4 ; cells 2, divari- 

 cate (one sometimes aborting). Germen sessile ; cells 5, oo-ovulate ; 

 styles 5, in tube, sometimes dilated at apex, connivent ; apex stig- 

 matiferous. Capsule membranous, wide 5-angled, subulate, truncate 

 at apex, compressed, 5-horned, finally shortly loculicidal and 

 septicidal 1 above. Seeds go ; embryo albuminous straight; coty- 

 ledons flat, cordate ; radicle cylindro-conical. — Many-stemmed small 

 trees ; hairs soft stellate ; leaves subentire or palmilobed ; flowers 2 

 solitary, or oftener in pedunculate cymes, terminal or sometimes 

 spuriously leaf-opposed (Asia and 2ropical Australia*). 



33. Maxwellia H. Bn.' — Flowers regular ; receptacle small, rather 

 flat. Sepals 5, 3-angled, thick, reduplicate-valvate. Petals 5, alternate, 

 small, tongue-shaped, rather fleshy, arched. Stamens 10, all fertile, 

 oppositipetalous by pairs; filaments short, erect, 2-nate and 2-anthered 

 at apex ; anthers lateral ; cells 2, separate, longitudinally laterally 

 rimose. Germen free, elongate-fusiform, 3-5-angled ; placentas 

 same in number, parietal, inwardly rather prominent, finally inwardly 

 contiguous or separate ; ovules in each placenta oo, 2-seriate ascend- 

 ing; micropyle extrorse inferior ; style slender, divided at apex into 

 3— 5-lacinate stigmatiferous lobes. Fruit clothed with base of non- 

 accrescent calyx, oblong, subulate-3-5-angled; pericarp inwardly coria- 

 ceous-suberous. Seeds , imm ersed in incomplete cells, ascending ; 

 testa crustaceous ; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo axile straight ; 

 cotyledons foliaceous, ellipsoidal ; radicle longer below, obtuse, subcla- 

 vate at apex. — A lepidote tree ; leaves alternate, simple, ovate-obtuse j 

 orbicular, or transversely elliptical, more rarely subreniform, coria- 

 ceous, thick, penninerved, 3-plinerved at base ; flowers in compound 

 racemes; branches rather compressed or angular 5 {New Caledonia*). 



34. Glossostemon Desf. 7 — Calyx deeply 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 



1 Dissepiments at internal angle pilose- 5 An anomalous genus, closely allied by its leaves 



plumose. to Pimia, by its minute petals to some Lasio- 



- Of a dull purple. petalem. It differs from all in its antbers before 



:i Spec. 2, 3, R. Be., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. eacb petal (small arcbed sub-transparent) not 



2, if. 409. — Salisb., Par. Lond., t. 102. — H. B. being solitary. It recedes from tbe rest of tbe 



K., JYbu. Gen. et Spec., v. 318. — Benth., Fl. Buettnerece in tbe absence of staminodes. 



Austral., i. 236. — Miq, Fl. Incl.-Bat., i. p. ii. 6 Spec. 1. M. lepidota H. Bn., loc. cit., 



183.— Walp., Rep., i. 337 (part.); Ann., iv. 100. 



822; rn. 429. ? In Mem. Mus., iii. 238, t. 11.— DC, 



4 In Adansonia, x. 98. Prodr., \, 485. — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 



