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31. Plagiopteron Griff. 1 — Sepals 3-5, minute dentiform. Petals 

 3-5, longer, sepaloid, valvate, finally reflexed. Stamens co ; filaments 

 subtree ; anthers 2-locular, subbasifixed, longitudinally rimose above. 

 Germen 3, 4-locular ; style subulate, apex stigmatiferous, scarcely 

 thickened, entire ; ovules in each cell 2 ascending ; micropyle 

 extrorse inferior. Fruit dry obpyramidal, oftener turbinate- 3-que- 

 trous, apex expanded in 3, 4 horizontal wings, and finally separating 

 into 3, 4 cocci (in dehiscent ?). — A scandent shrub ; leaves usually 

 opposite, 2 petiolate, entire ; stipules minute or ; flowers 3 in pedun- 

 culate ramified cymiferous racemes (East Lid. 4 ). See p. 176. 



32 ? Solmsia H. Bn. 5 — Flowers dioecious ; calyx subcampanulate, 

 4-fid, valvate. Corolla 0. Male flower 8-androus ; stamens 4 oppo- 

 site calyx lobes ; 4 others alternate ; filaments under rudimentary 

 gynseceum hypogynous free ; anthers 2-locular, extrorse, longitudi- 

 nally rimose. Germen sterile, 4-locular ; style small, apex minute 

 capitate. In female flowers stamens sterile, apex glandular. Germen 

 4-locular ; ovule solitary in each cell, inserted at the summit of 

 internal angle, descending; micropyle extrorse superior. Capsule 

 obpyramidal, tapering at base, surrounded by persistent calyx, loculi- 

 cidal 3, 4-valved ; valves inwardly septiferous at middle. Seeds 

 oblong compressed, outwardly fleshy, scantily pilose; chalaza produced 

 below in acute aril; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile cylindrical ; cotyle- 

 dons oblong slightly wider than tigella. — Small trees or shrubs, 

 partly fulvous or golden-velvety ; leaves alternate, simple attenuate 

 at base, exstipulate, penninerved ; primary nerves crowded oblique ; 

 flowers at the summit of twigs or in axils of upper leaves in small 

 compound cymiferous racemes (N. Caledonia 6 ). See p. 176. 



IV. EL.EOCAEPE.E. 



33. Elseocarpus L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 1-sex- 

 ual 4, 5-merous ; receptacle produced beyond perianth in a column, 



1 In Calcutt. Journ., iv. 244, t. 13. — B. H., 4 Spec. 1. P. fragrans Griff., loc. cit.— 

 Gen., 238, n. 31. — Bocq., in Adansonia. vii. Walp., Rep., v. 370. 



35. 5 In Adansonia, x. 34. 



2 Sometimes certainly alternate. 6 Spec. 2, or 3, unless all varieties of one. H. 



3 Small, oderiferous. Be., Adansonia, x. 196. 



