196 NATURAL LTISTORY OF PLANTS. 



petiolatc ovate-oblong serrate acuminate, base cordate 3-5-nerved ; 

 stipules large obovate connate in a persistent ocreiform cupule ; 

 flowers in pedunculate axillary cymes ; peduncles 2-chotomous ; pedi- 

 cels 2-bracteolate at base ; bractlets 3, formed into an involucel under 

 llower" (Fiji Islands 1 ). See p. 1 72. 



16. Mollia Mart. & Zucc. 2 — Flowers 5-merous; sepals valvate. 

 Petals alternate, naked at base, subentire, valvate, or more or less 3-fid 

 and subimbricate at apex ; ribs sometimes rather prominent within. 

 Stamens oo, inserted with petals, 10-adelphous; phalanges 5 

 oppositipetalous and 5 alternate, large ; filaments finally free ; 3 

 anthers narrow, subsagittate ; cells linear- introrse or sublateral, 

 longitudinally rimose, connective sometimes apiculate. Germen 

 superior; cells 2, complete or incomplete, co-ovulate; style slender ; 

 apex stigmatiferous, obtuse. Capsule 2-locular, elongate, expanded 

 at apex into short curved marginal wing, compressed contrarily to 

 narrow septum, loculicidal, semi-2-valved, falsely septate between 

 seeds. Seeds transverse compressed ; albumen ? ; embryo straight ; 

 cotyledons flat, membranous. — Trees ; leaves alternate, entire or 

 serrate ; stipules laterally 2-nate ; flowers 4 axillary, solitary, or in 

 cymes, sometimes 1-parous (Tropical America^). See p. 172. 



17. Sparmannia L. f. 6 — Sepals 4, of which 2 are lateral, some- 

 times petaloid, valvate. Petals 4, alternate, naked at base, imbricate. 

 Stamens co, inserted with perianth ; filaments at base connate in 

 4 alternipetalous phalanges, otherwise free ; exterior, antherless, 

 glandular-undulate or moniliform above, interior longer, torulose, 

 fertile ; anthers introrse, finally versatile, 2 -rimose. Germen 

 superior; cells 4 or more rarely 5-8, complete or incomplete, oo-ovu- 



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1 Spec. 1. G. calyculata Seem., loc. cif. * White, beautiful. 



2 Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 96, t. 60.— Spach, 5 Spec, ad 6. Walp., Sep., i. 353; v. 117. 

 Suit, a Buffon, iv. 42. — Enpl., Gen., n. 5366. 6 Suppl., 41.— J., Gen., 290.— Lamk., Diet., 

 — Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 59. — vii. 308 ; 111., t. 468. — Retz., Obs., v. t. 3. — 

 B. H., <!en„ 236, n. 21.— H. Bn., in Payer Fam. DC., Prodr., i. 503.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, 

 Nat., 276. — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 58. — iv. 5. — Endl., Gen., n. 5369. — Payee, Or- 

 Seldechtendalia Speeno., Syst. Cur. Post., 295 ganog., 22, t. 5. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 

 (nee W., nee Less.). 275.— B. H., Gen., 235, n. 16.— Bocq., in 



3 A few sterile ones sometime? intermixed. Adansonia, vii. 38. 



