194 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



co -ovulate in internal angle ; style short hollow, apex stigmatiferous 

 pulpons, subentire or unequally crenate. Fruit oblong-fasiform 

 dry inermis, 4-10-lobular, 1— 10-sulcate ; cells with difficulty septicidal 

 oo -spermous, and transversely septate between seeds. Seeds finally 

 sub-1 -seriate, unequally-compressed; testa crustaceous ; albumen 

 fleshy; embryo axile ; cotyledons orbicular-cordate. — Shrubs; leaves 

 of Gretoia, denticulate 3-plinerved, stipules minute subulate very 

 caducous; Mowers 1 in pedunculate, subaxillary lateral or terminal 

 cymes {Trqp. Africa*). See p. 172. 



12. Apeiba Aubl. 3 — Flowers 5- or more rarely 4-merous ; recep- 

 tacle conical. Sepals valvate and petals same in number, alternate, 

 imbricate or sub valvate. Stamens co, free, en -seriate ; exterior 

 often sterile, dilated in petaloid lamina ; interior fertile ; anthers 

 introrse ; cells linear, longitudinally rimose ; connective sometimes 

 produced beyond cells. Germen co-locular; cells 4 co - ovulate ; style 

 tubular or long obconical, interior hollow, apex stigmatiferous co- 

 denticulate, or more rarely straight cut. Fruit depressed-globose, 

 coriaceous or subligneous, tuberculate or echinate, indehiscent or 

 dehiscing with difficulty. Seeds co, nidulant in pulp, suborbiculate 

 or compressed ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons orbicu- 

 late-subcordate. — Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate, large, 3-5- 

 nerved ; flowers 5 in cymes 2- or 3-chotomous ; peduncle terminal, 

 lateral or subleaf-opposed ; bracts often stipuliform deciduous (Trqp. 

 America 6 ). See p. 172. 



13. Ancistrocarpus Oliv. 7 — " Sepals 4, free. Petals 4, naked at 

 base. Stamens co, inserted on non-elevated torus, coalescing" in 4 

 phalanges, opposite sepals; phalanges connected at base by a mem- 

 brane ; anthers linear muticous. Germen sub-6-locular ; dissepi- 



1 Yellow ; bud nearly of Grewia. Mem., n. 1005. — Sloanea Lcefl., It., 311 



2 Spec. 2. Don, Gen. Si/st., i. 549 {Gretoia). *(nec. L.). 



— Hook, f., in Bot. Mag., t. 5610.— Mast., " 4 Sometimes 30-40. 



in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 267. — H. Bn., in s " Flavcscentibus v. virescentibus." 



Adansonia, x. 175.— Walp., Ann., i. Ill; ii. « Spec, ad 5. Sw„ Fl. Ind. Occ., t. 16, f. 1 



172 ; vii. 450. (Aulletia).—S.. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 



s Guian., 537, t. 213-216.— J. Gen., 291.-- 347. — Benth., in Jovm. Linn. Soc, v. Snppl., 



G.ertn., FrucL, ii. 188, t. 121.— Lamk., Diet., 60.— Ghiseb., Fl. Brit. IV.-Ind., 98.— Tr. & 



Suppl., i. 406 ; III., t. 470.— DC, Frodr., i. Pl., in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 346.— Walp., 



514.— Endl., Gen., n. 5361,— H. Bn., in Payer liep., ii. 798; v. 116; vii. 450. 



Fam. Nat., 276.— B. H., Gen., 237, n. 28.— ~> In Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 173.— B. H., Gen., 



BoCQ., in Adansonia, vii. 39. — Aubletia 986, n. 28 a. 

 Sctireb., Gen., 353. — Oxylandrum Neck., 



