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finally loculieidal, 2-valved. Seeds cc, inserted in internal angle of 

 cells, setose, pilose or hairy at margin ; embryo albuminous ; coty- 

 ledons flat.— Trees ; leaves entire or serrulate alternate, 3-5-nerved 

 at base ; stipules linear, caducous ; flowers in racemes terminal or 

 axillaryto upperleaves cymiferous; cymes sometimes 1 -parous at apex; 

 bracts caducous 1 (Java, Fiji Islands, Mexico, and Antilles*). Seep. 175. 



20. Erinocarpus NlMM. 8 — Flowers nearly of Grewia ; 4 germen 

 3-locular. Ovules in each cell 2, descending ; rnicropyle extrorse 

 superior ; cells dorsally somewhat produced in false dissepiments 

 between ovules ; style filiform ; apex stigmatiferous. Fruit sub- 

 ligneous, indehiscent (?), 3-quetrous ; faces cordate-ovate, muricate- 

 echinate ; angles subwinged ; cells 6, 1-spermous, or sterile 1-5. 

 Seeds descending; testa coriaceous ; albumen fleshy; embryo thick ; 

 radicle superior ; cotyledons flat, subovate, 3-5-nerved at base. — A 

 tree ; leaves alternate, palminerved, lobate-dentate ; flowers 5 in 

 simple or terminal ramified cymiferous racemes; cymes 1 -parous ; 

 bracts subcordate entire or unequal-fid (Peninsular India 6 ). Seep. 175. 



27. Triumfetta Plum. 7 — Flowers nearly of Ilonckenija, sometimes 

 polygamous ; receptacle elongated between corolla and stamens, 

 apex dilated into orbicular disk more or less conspicuously glandu- 

 lar-4, 5-lobed. Sepals 4, 5, often mucronate or fornicate outwardly 

 below apex, valvate. Petals 5, imbricated, base inwardly glan- 

 dular-thickened or foveolate, sometimes dwarf (Heliocarj^us 9 ), or 



1 We find no generic difference between Tri- 

 chospermum and Belotian (A. Rich., Fl. Cub., i. 

 207, t. 21 ;— B. H., Gen., 233, n. 11 ; Bocq., in 

 Adansonia, vii. 47; — AdenodiscusTvB.cz. in Bull. 

 Mosc. (184G), ii. 504, which, in our opinion, should 

 be regarded an American section of Trichosper- 

 mum ; cymes often 1-paris. 



2 Species hitherto described 4, of which 2 

 are of the Old World. DC, Prodr., i. 510, 

 n. 18 {O-reivia). — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 182 

 (Belotia).— Waip., Rep., ii. 800; Ann-, i. Ill 

 (D/jdodi.'-riis); iv. 329 [Diclidocarpus); vii. 448. 



3 In Hurt. Bomb. Cat., mss. — Hassk., in 

 Jtetzia, i. 137.— B. H., Gen., 234, n. 12. — 

 Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 45. 



4 Sepal inwardly subcristate at middle ; crest 

 vertical, dilated pilose at base. 



6 Large, yellow. 



6 Spec. 1. E. Nimmoanus Dalz., Joe. cit. — 

 Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl. 



7 Gen., t. 8. — L., Gen., n. 600. — Adans., 

 Fam. des PI., ii. 382.— J., Gen., 290.— GiEBTN., 

 Fruct., ii. 137, t. 111.— Poie., Diet., iii. 419; 

 Suppl. iii. 299. — Lamk., III., t. 400.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 506.— Endl., Gen., n. 5372. — H. Bn., 

 in Payer Fam. Nat., 277.— B. H., Gen., 234, 

 986, n. 13. — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 43. 



8 L., Hort. Cliff., 211, t, 16; Gen., n. 606.— 

 J., Gen., 290. — Teew., Pict., t. 45. — Lamk., 

 Diet., iii. 89; III , t. 409.— DC, Prodr., i. 

 503. — Spach, Suit a Buffon, iv. 6. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5367.— B. H., Gen., 234, n. 14.— 

 Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 44. — Montia Houst., 

 (ex Endl., dcc Michel.). 



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