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contortu plicate, involving slightly curved radicle. — Trees ; trunk 

 short, very thick, of gigantic diameter ; branches patent or some- 

 times deflexed, radiating from the summit of trunk in wide dense 

 coma ; leaves digitate ; folioles 3-9 entire, very short petiolate ; 

 stipules deciduous ; flowers axillary, solitary, pedunculate, pendu- 

 lous ; bractlets 2 {Tropical Africa, Asia, ? Australia 1 ). 



79. Quararibea Attbl. 2 — Flowers elongated ; calyx oblong- 

 obconical, apex 3— 5-dentate or shortly 3-5-lobed, sometimes un- 

 equally cut, valvate. Petals 5, ovate-oblong or oblong linear, much 

 narrowed at base, more or less adnate to base of staminal tube, 

 imbricate or contorted. Stamens co ; filaments connate, in rather 

 long or much elongated tube, exserted ; apex of tube outwardly 

 antberiferous, subentire {Euquararibea), or 5-dentate (Myrodia 3 ), some- 

 times short (Matisiopsis*) or long (Matisia), 5, G-fid ; anthers shortly 

 stipitate or sessile, extrorse ; cells either separate {Euquararibea, 

 Matisia?) or divaricate, sometimes more or less confluent at apex 

 (Myrodia), longitudinally rimose. Germen sessile, 2-5-locular; 

 ovules in each cell 6 2 or more rarely 3, 4, ascending or descending ; 

 style slender or filiform, freely passing through tube of androceum, 

 apex stigmatiferous, more or less dilated or subcapitate sublobed. 

 Fruit usually subglobose, sometimes sub-2-dymous, rarely fibrous- 

 pulpous (Eumatisia), or often er scantily fleshy (Myrodiopsis 1 ), coria- 

 ceous or suberose -fibrous, indehiscent or unequally parting; 3 cells 

 1-5, oligo- or 1-spermous. Seeds laterally affixed, descending or sub- 

 ascending ; albumen scanty, mucous or subcartilaginous ; embryo 

 rather fleshy ; cotyledons contortuplicate or unequally conferruminate, 



1 Spec. 2. Cat., Diss., v. 298, t. 157.— 

 GriLLEM. & Peer., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. 76. — 

 F. Mttell., in Hook. Journ., ix. 14. — Thw., 

 Fnum. PI. Zeyl., 28.— Bexth., Fl. Austral., i. 

 222.— Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Jfr., i. 212. 

 — Sot. Mag., t. 2791. — Walp., i. 399; vii. 

 416. 



2 Gaian., 691, t. 278 (1775).— DC, Prodr., 

 i. 477.— Exdl., Gen., n. 5313 b.— B. H., Gen., 

 212, n. 49.— H. Bx., in Payer Fam. Nat., 

 285 ; in Adansonia, x. 146 (incl. : Matisia K., 

 Myrodia S\v.). — Gerberia Scop., Inirod., n. 

 1297. 



3 Sw„ Prodr., 102 (1783); Fl. Ind. Occ, 

 ii. 1227. — Schreb., Gen., n. 1147.— DC, 



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Prodr., i. 477. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 415. 

 — Endl., Gen., n. 5313. — H. Bn., in Payer 

 Fam. Nat., 285; in Adansonia, ii. 172; ix. 146. 

 — B. H., Gen., 219, n. 8. — Lexarza Leave, 

 Nov. Stirp., ii. 7. 



4 H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 148. 



5 H. B., PI. Mquin., i. 9, t. 2, 3. — DC, 

 Prodr., i. 477.— Exdl., Gen., n. 5314.— B. H., 

 Gen., 211, n. 48. 



6 Sometimes between ovules (in Q. turlinata) 

 falsely septiferous. 



' Teiana & Pi., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, 

 xvii. 326. 



s Apex oftener produced to a short acuta 

 straight truncate point. 



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