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5-valved ; seeds involute in fleshy aril (?) ; cotyledons of fleshy embryo 

 thick unequal. — A lofty tree ; leaves lepidote beneath (of Bwrio) ; 

 flowers axillary cymose-fasciculate shortly pedunculate ; each encircled 

 by a tubular calyciform valvate sub-3-5-dentate lepidote (deciduous) 

 involucel (Zeylania 1 ). Seep. 105. 



86. Neesia Bl. 2 — Calyx subglobose or acetabuliform depressed at 

 anthesis, irregularly inflexed 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5. Stamens a>, 

 shortly 4-G-adelphous at base ; each filament 1- or more rarely 2-anthe- 

 riferous. Anthers subglobose, 1-locular confluent in a ring. Germen 

 5-locular ; ovules in each cell 2 or few, ascending : micropyle 

 extrorse inferior ; style short, apex subcapitate stigmatiferous. 

 Fruit ovoid ligneous densely muricate, loculicidal 5-valved ; seeds 

 " oblong exarillate ; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons flat folia- 

 ceous." — Tall trees ; leaves oblong, entire lepidote (nearly of Dtirio) 

 sometimes slightly tomentose beneath; flowers close to branches, shortly 

 racemose-cymose, each surrounded by a 5-lobed, calyciform, closely 

 adpressed valvate epicalyx ; inflorescence involucrate, calyculate, 

 lepidote (Java, Malaya*). See p. 105. 



87. Boscliia Korth. 4 — Calyx subglobose or ovoid, finally 4, 5-fid. 

 Petals 5, 6, linear or subspathulate. Stamens oo ; 5, 6 exterior ones 

 antherless, simulating petals ; interior subfree or unequally connate 

 at base, some 1-antheriferous, others 2-8-antheriferous ; anthers small 

 subglobose, placed at summit of dilated filaments, apex subporous. 

 Grermen 3-6-locular ; ovules in each cell 2- oo, ascending ; micropyle 

 extrorse inferior; style, elongated, apex stigmatiferous, more or less 

 dilated peltate-discoidal. Fruit ovoid or acuminate ligneous densely 

 muricate, 3-5-valved. Seeds few or oo, usually oblong, arillate at 

 base ; embryo (albuminous ?), cotyledons flat foliaceous. — Trees ; 

 leaves nearly of Bwrio, lepidote beneath ; flowers 5 close to branches, 

 shortly pedicellate lepidote (together with pedicel and calyces) sur- 

 rounded by an epicalyx 2-3-fid {Malaya, Ind. Jrc/t. 6 ). See p. 105. 



1 Spec. 1. C. excelsa Wight, loc. ci/.-Tnw., 3 Spec. 2. Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 168.— 

 Fnum. PI. Zeijl., 28. Walp., Rep., i. 331. 



2 Fl. Jav. FrafaL, vii.; in Nov. Act. Nat. * Verh. Nat. Gescli., 2j7, t. P9-— B. H., 

 Cur., xvii. 75, t. 6.— Endl., Gen., n. 530S. — Gen., 213, n. 57. — Heteropyxis Geiff., NoluL, 

 B. H., Gen., 213, n. 58. — Esenbeckia Bl., iv. 524, t. 594. 



Bijdr., 118 (nee H. B. K.). — Cotylephora s Resembling those of Tiliacew. 



Meissn., Gen., 36, Comm., 28. 6 Spec. Walp., Rep., v. 96. 



