204 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



caducous ; male flowers in terminal cymiferous racemes, bracteate or 

 minute-leaved ; female flowers few or solitary 1 (Trop. America-). See 

 p. 170. 



III. PROCKIEiE. 



29. Prockia P. Br. — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle slightly 

 convex. Sepals 3, or more rarely 4, 5, valvate, persistent. Petals 

 same in number or fewer, sepaloid, often small, sometimes imbri- 

 cate, or 0. Stamens go, free co-seriate; anthers small, subglobose or 

 sub-4-agonal, sublaterally 2-rimose. Cfermen free, 4, 5-locular; style 

 subulate subentire, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in each cell go, 

 inserted on thick placenta, sometimes 2-lobed. Fruit baccate, in- 

 dehiscent. Seeds , small, nidulant in pulp ; testa crustaceous; al- 

 bumen fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons thick, subovate, slightly 

 wider than straight radicle. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate-serrate, co- 

 nerved at base ; stipules lateral, unequal at base ; flowers in short, 

 simple or cymose terminal racemes {Trop. America). See p. 176. 



30. Hasseltia H. B. K. 3 — Flowers nearly of Prockia; sepals 4, 

 5, more rarely 3, valvate, finally reflexed persistent. Petals same in 

 number, sepaloid, similarly reflexed and persistent with calyx, valvate 

 or imbricated at apex in bud. Stamens co ; filaments free, inserted on 

 small discoid receptacle ; anthers small extrorse sub-4-agonal, rimose 

 at margin. Germen 2- or more rarely 3-locular ; cells complete or 

 finally incomplete, co-ovulate ; 4 style subulate, stigmatiferous scarcely 

 dilated, sub-3-lobed. Fruit subbaccate, indehiscent ; seeds few, de- 

 scending ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons plano-folia- 

 ceous. — Trees ; leaves 3-5 -nerved, 2-glandular at base ; flowers 

 crowded 5 in terminal ramified clusters of corymbiform cymes (Trop. 

 America*) . See p. 1 7 . 



1 Genus with dioecious flowers much resembling 3 Nov. Gen. et Spec., vii. 231, t. 601. 



Carpodiptera (among Brownloioice) differing by Endl., Gen., n. 5360. — B. H., Gen., 238, n. 30. 



its short stipitate androceum, anther-cells not — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 41. 



confluent, and ovary as it seems not winged, and 4 Ovules inserted on exterior side of ohovate 



especially in calyx partite as far as base (not as in ascending placenta, ascending. 



Brownlowice campanulate gamophyllous). Cha- 5 Small. 



racters afterwards like Grewia; \t also resembles 6 Spec. 3. Benth., PI. Hartweg., 164. 



Euphorbiacea in flowers and habit. Tit. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sor. 4, xvi'i. 344.-— 



* Spec. 1. V. atchorneoides H. Bn., loc. cit. Walp., Rep., i. 352; Ann., i. 110. 



