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style stigmatiferous, fimbriate at apex. Fruit large, 1 globose, oblong- 

 obtuse, longitudinally traversed by 8 rather prominent obtuse angles 

 inwardly fibrous-suberous indehiscent ; seeds co, immersed ; embryo 

 albuminous. — A tree ; leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 slightly stellate-pubescent beneath, oblique cordate at base ; stipules 

 minute or very caducous ; flowers in pedunculate leaf-opposed cymes, 

 usually 3-nate ; bracts 3, wide cordate before anthesis valvate, alter- 

 nating with flowers, more rarely 4, involucrate {Tropical Western 

 Africa*). See p. 175. 



24. Columbia Pers. 3 — Flowers nearly of Grewia f germen 3-5- 

 locular ; style slender ; apex stigmatiferous, subentire or shortly 5- 

 dentate. Ovules in each cell (more or less complete) 2-x>, 2-seriate, 

 descending. Fruit dry, glabrous, or tomentose, vertically 3-5- 

 winged, or septicidal 3-5-coccous ; cocci semi-winged at margin 

 (from the wings being cut into 2 plates), or indehiscent, sometimes 

 falsely septate between seeds (Dijolojjhractum b ). Seeds in coccous l-^o , 

 descending or ascending, albuminous. — Trees ; leaves alternate, more 

 or less oblique at base, 3 -nerved, serrate or crenate ; stipules small 

 or foliaceous, dissimilar, the second 2-lobed setigerous [Biplojjhractmn) ; 

 flowers in cymiferous racemes, axillary or terminal, sometimes much 

 ramified (Tropical Asia 6 ). See p. 175. 



25. Trichosparmum Bl. 7 — Flowers nearly of Grewia; germen 

 2-locular ; cells complete or incomplete, cc -ovulate ; style at apex 

 stigmatiferous, obconical or sub-fan-shaped, dilated, sub-2-lobed, 

 much papillose. Capsule 2-locular, transverse, elliptical or sub- 

 rhomboidal, compressed contrarily to dissepiments, attenuate at 

 margin or sometimes expanded in a short thick coriaceous wing, 



1 " Extus villosus, 2, 3 poll, longus, 1, 2 poll. 233, n. 10. — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 47. — 

 latus." H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 195. 



2 Spec. 1. -D. Macrocarpa Bocq., loc. cit. — 6 Spec. 6, 7. Tixrcz., in Bull. Mosc. (185S), 

 Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 266. i. 233 ; (1863), i. 575. — Garcke, in Bonplandia, 



3 Enchirid., ii. (1807), 66.— DC, Prodr., i. v. 258.— Walp., Rep., i. 362; Ann., vii. 444. 

 512.— Endl., Gen., n. 5378.— B. H., Gen., 233, 7 Bijdr., 56.— Endl., Gen., n. 5063.— Clos, 

 n . 9. — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 47. — Colona in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 265. — B. H. Gen., 

 Cav., Icon., iv. 47, t. 370. 236, n. 22.— Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 58. — 



4 Sepals generally stellate-pubescent. > H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 195. — Diclidocarpus 



5 Desf., in Mem. Mus., v. (1819), 34, t. 1. — A. Geay, in Amer. Expl. Bxped., Bot., i. 200, 

 DC, Prodr., i. 514. — Spacu, Suit, a Buffon, t. 14. 



iv. 36. — Endl., Gen., n. 5377. — B. H., Gen., 



