160 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



oblong or linear, hypogynous at base or slightly perigynous, 

 exterior often tomentose, pra?floration at apex contorted or invo- 

 lute, 1 erect-patent at anthesis, or finally generally recurved revolute. 

 Stamens oo ; column separated above into cc-filaments, 1-antheri- 

 ferous, often 2-nate, connate at base, 5-oo -adelphous ; 2 anthers reni- 

 f'orm, l-locular, curvo-rimose at margin. Grermen free, sessile ; 

 cells 5-co -ovulate ; style clavate at apex, shortly stigmatiferous, 

 5-lobed. Fruit oblong or subglobose, coriaceous or ligneous, locu- 

 licidal, on account of septa being destroyed at maturity, finally often 

 sub-1-locular ; valves 5, inwardly glabrous. Seeds go, subquadrate- 

 cuneate, externally smooth, naked ; testa crustaceous ; hilum usually 

 large ; embryo scantily albuminous or exalbuminous, fleshy, invo- 

 lute-plicate, involving straight radicle. — Trees, often lofty ; coma 

 dense ; leaves alternate, digitate ; folioles 3-9, sometimes articulate 

 at base, entire ; stipules deciduous ; flowers pedunculate, axillary, 

 solitary; bractlets 2, 3 (Tropical America? Madagascar?). 



78. Adansonia L. 4 — Calyx ovoid or oblong, finally subcampanu- 

 late, 5-fid, inwardly silky, valvate, deciduous. Petals (malvaceous) 

 much longer than calyx, oblong or obovate, convolute. Stamens oo, 

 column connate at base with corolla, afterwards separated into 

 oo -filaments, rather long, 1-antheriferous ; anthers terminal, reni- 

 form, l-locular. Germen free; cells 5-10, oc-ovulate; apex of 

 style divided into 5-10 short branches, stigmatiferous, stellate- 

 patent. Fruit oblong, sometimes obovoid or subglobose, ligneous, 

 indehiscent ; cells full of farinaceous pulp. Seeds go, nidulant in pulp, 

 finally dry, reniform, globose or angular ; testa thick ; hilum 

 lateral ; embryo scantily albuminous, arched ; cotyledons much 



1 Sometimes valvate at base, more or less in- t. 1412, 4508, 4549. — Walp., Rep., i. 329; ii. 

 duplicate. 793 ; v. 95 ; Ann., ii. 159 ; vii. 416. 



2 Fascicles sometimes 2-seriate, exterior 5 ; 4 Gen. n. 836. — Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 

 interior stamens sometimes 1 -adelphous at base. 399. — J., Gen., 275. — G.ertn., Fntct., ii. 253, 

 Filaments often irregular (i.e., sometimes 3, 4, t. 135. — Lamk., Diet., i. 370 ; Suppl., i, 575 ; 

 2-fid). III., t. 588.— DC, Prodr., i. 478.— Spach, 



8 Spec, ad 15. Cav., Diss., iii. 176, t. 72. — Suit, a Buffon, iii. 419. — Endl., Gen., n. 5297. 

 II. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 301. — A. S. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 286. — B. H., 

 H., Fl, Bras. Mer., i. 258, t. 51. — Mart., Nov. Gen., 209, n. 40. — Ophelus Louh., Fl. Co- 

 Gen, el Spec., i. t. 56. — Hook., Fxot. Fl., ii. chinch., 412. — Baobab., P. Alp., Mgypt., 66, 

 t. 100. — Casar., Nov. Stirp. Bras. Dec, 21. t. 67. — Adans., in Act. Par. (1759), t. 1,2; 

 — Ukiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 87.— Tr. & Pi., (1761), 218, t. 16, 17. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 319. — Bot. Mag., 







