200 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



more or less deeply :3-5-lobed; lobes each constituting a subdistinct 

 drupe (Eugremd) ; mesocarp sometimes fibrous-subexsuccous 

 (Ompftacarpusr). Seeds ascending or subliorizontal ; albumen fleshy, 

 copious, scanty or ; embryo straight ; radicle conical ; cotyledons 

 flat, loliaceous or fleshy plano-convex, often cordate, 3-nerved at 

 b asc _ — Trees or shrubs ; hairs usually stellate ; leaves alternate, 

 entire or serrate, often obliquely 3-7-nerved at base ; stipules rather 

 large, small or ; flowers 3 axillary or terminal, solitary or cymose, 

 more rarely cymose-racemose ; bracts usually small, often caducous 

 (All warm regions of the globe"). See p. 175. 



22. Desplatsia Bocq. 5 — Flowers nearly of Grewia ; sepals 6 and 

 petals 4, 5. Stamens ce, inserted as in Grewia; filaments 1-adel- 

 phous at base. Germen 4, 5-locular ; cells cc -ovulate ; style in 

 column ; apex stigmatiferous, minute, dilated, 4, 5-lobulate. Fruit 

 large, 7 oblong or ovoid, externally coriaceous, internally fibrous- 

 suberous, indehiscent. Seeds go, immersed in fibrous pericarp, 

 oblong, surrounded by a narrow membranous wing. 8 — A subglabrous 

 shrub ; 9 habit and leaves of Greioia, oblong, 3-nerved at base, some- 

 times slightly oblique, acuminate, serrate ; stipules linear-pluri- 

 partite ; flowers 10 in axillary and terminal cymes (Tropical Western 

 Africa"). See p. 175. 



23. Duboscia Bocq. 1 " — Flowers nearly of Grewia, 4, 5-merous ; 

 petals short, glandular-thickened at base, acute at apex. Stamens 

 inserted as in Grewia ; anthers sub-2-dymous. Germen 4-S-locular ; 



1 " Grewia versa." B. H., loc. cit., i. 799 ; v. 119; Ann., ii. 171; iv. 330; vii. 



* Korth., Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bol., 192, t. 42 442. 



(Spec. 2, 3. Afr. Trop. & Arch. Ind.). 5 In Adansonia, vii. 51. — 13. H., Gen., 985, 



3 Rather large or moderate, purple, yellow, h. 8 a. 



white, or greenish. 6 Outwardly slightly stellate-puheseent, in- 



4 Spec, ad 60. P. Beatjv., Fl. Ow. et Ben., wardly induplicate-fiinbriate at base. 



i. t. 30 ; ii. 102, 108.— Wight & Aen., Prodr., 7 " 3, 1 inches long, 2, 3 inches wide." 



i. 75.— Wight, Icon., t. 44, 45, 76, 82 83, 89. s "Moist gelatinous." 



— GttilIi. & Peer., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. t. 20. — 9 Except indoresceuce and petioles. 



Eabv. & Soxd., Fl. Cap., i. 224.— A. Geay, iu Red. 



dnu r. Expl. Exped., But., i. 197. — Seem., Fl. " Sjiec. 1. D. subericarpa Bocq., loc. cit. — 



/'//., 26.— Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 269.— Miq., Mast., in Oliv. Ft. Trop. Afr., i. 266. 



Fl. h»l.- Bat., i. ii. ii. 201.— Mast., in Oliv. Fl. '- In Adansonia, vii. 50.— B. H., Gen., 985, 



Trop. Afr., i. 242. — Walp., Rep., i. 360; ii. n. 8 i. 



