164 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



column, afterwards free, thickened at apex ; anthers terminal, sub- 

 transverse 1-locular, rimose. Germen superior, 2-4-locular, included 

 in cavity of column ; apex of style minute 2-4-dentate. Ovules 

 in each cell 2, collaterally ascending. Fruit. . . ? — A large tree ; leaves 

 alternate, entire coriaceous, nitid, oblique penninerved, base sub-3- 

 nerved ; flower axillary 1-3-nate ; pedicels rather short, apex under 

 calyx minute 2-3-bracteolate 1 (Trop. America"). 



84. Durio L." — Flowers large hermaphrodite ; calyx usually sub- 

 campanulate, 5-fid, outwardly densely lepidote. Petals 3-5, ungui- 

 culate contorted, or more rarely imbricate. Stamens go ; upper part 

 of column divided into <x> filaments, 4-6-adelphous ; anthers cc, anfrac- 

 tuous adnate to summit of each capitate filament, unequally rimose. 

 Germen 5-locular ; ovules cc, 2 -serrate ; style elongated, apex stig- 

 matiferous capitate. Fruit (very large) globose, subligneous, some- 

 times densely conical-muricate, indehiscent, or with difficulty 

 unequally 5-parted, inwardly pulpous ; seeds immersed in pulp 

 (arillate ?) ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick, often conferruminate. — 

 Trees; leaves entire coriaceous, lepidote beneath, parallel thinly penni- 

 nerved ; flowers in lateral cymes ; involucre round each flower sacci- 

 form valvate lepidote (simulating exterior calyx), finally irregularly 

 torn 4 (Lid. Arch. Malaya?). See p. 105. 



85. Cullenia Wight. 6 — Calyx tubular, 5-dentate. Corolla 0. 

 Stamens co ; column elongated above, 5-fid; anthers small subglobose, 

 glomerate close to branches of androceum. Germen 5-locular ; ovules 

 in each cell 2, ascending ; micropyle introrse inferior ; style elongated, 

 apex capitate stigmatiferous. Fruit globose densely muricate, finally 



1 A Genus, in some respects related to Gen., 213, n. 56), a tree of Bornea unknown to 

 BampecB (Benth.), somewhat recalling Quar- us; described as : flowers encircled by involucre 

 aribea by the bud. 2, 3-fid ; calyx obsolete sub-3-fid, petals 5, 



2 Spec. 1. S. Spruceana Benth., loc. cit.— staminal filaments oo, sub-free at apex 2- 

 WAIP., Ann., vii. 417. furcate, finally oo-antheriferous ; anthers free 



3 Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 581. — Adans., Fam. des reniform and germen 5-locular; cells oo-ovulate. 

 PL, ii. 399. — Lamk., Diet., ii. 333; Suppl., ii. Its entire leaves and densely scaly inflorescence 

 530; III., t. 611. — DC, Prodr., i. 480. — Kcen., also much recalling Durio. 



in Trans. Linn. Soc, vii. 266, t. 14-16. — 5 Spec. 1, 2. Humph., Herb. Amloin., i. 99, 



Spacii, Suit, ci Buffbn, iii. 439.— Endl., Gen., t. 29.— Wallace, in Hook. Journ., viii. 228. — 



n. 5305.— 13. H., Gen., 213, n. 55. Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 167. 



* Lahia seems to approximate to Durio, 6 Icon., t. 1761, 1762.— B. H., Gen., 212, 



Hassk., Hort. Bogor., new ed., 99 ;— B. H., n. 51. 



