206 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes very short, disoo -glandular-dilated at apex. Sepals free 

 (sometimes coloured), valvate or slightly imbricate. Petals alternate, 

 base inwardly naked or furnished with small glands, either entire or 

 much oftener lobed, or laciniate, sometimes coriaceous subpetaloid, 

 in duplicate valvate, each involving oo stamens. Stamens either few 

 placed in phalanges 2-4-androus before each petal ; alternipetalous, 

 sometimes 4, 5 each; or alternipetalous 0, and 25-30, or cc placed 

 in phalanges 4, 5, or G-androus ; filaments erect ; anthers subbasifixed 

 elongated, apex muticous or more usually with aristate or cuspidate 

 connective ; cells linear introrse or sublateral, more or less long 

 rimose from apex ; clefts usually confluent at apex (dehiscing in valves, 

 afterwards 3-angular). Germen sessile; style subulate entire, stig- 

 matiferous at apex ; cells 2-5, complete or incomplete ; ovules 2, 

 ascending, or oo. Drupe 1-pyrenous; putamen usually ligneous, hard, 

 or osseous tuberculate, 1-5-locular. Seed usually solitary in each cell, 

 ascending or descending ; testa rather thick ; albumen fleshy ; em- 

 bryo axile ; cotyledons wide, flat, or undulate. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate or more rarely opposite, entire or dentate ; stipules small 

 or ; ilowers axillary or terminal, solitary, or oftener racemose 1-brac- 

 teate; bractlets usually 2 (Trop, Ins. Asia, and Oceanic Trop. East. 

 Africa.) See p. 177. 



34. Crinoclendron Mol. 1 — Calyx 5-merous valvate ; sepals 5 den- 

 tate in sac, afterwards unequally torn and deciduous, connate or free 

 sooner or later near base {Tricuspidaria-). Petals 5, alternate, entire or 

 sometimes 3-dentate or 3-lobed, induplicate-valvate, and each in- 

 volving exterior stamens. Stamens cc, unequally inserted on corolla, 

 more or less elevated beyond receptacle in column, usually short, some- 

 times outwardly dilated glandular at apex ; anthers linear introrse or 

 sublateral; cells often from apex and finally to the base longitudinally 

 rimose ; connective sometimes apiculate beyond cells. Germen 3-5- 

 locular; cells oo-ovulate; style subulate, apex entire or scarcely 

 dilated stigmatiferous. Capsule coriaceous or ligneous, usually an- 

 gular, loculicidal 3-5-valved or more rarely also more or less 



1 Chil. (1782), 311,— Cav., Diss., v. 300, t. 112— DC., Prodr., i. 520.— Endl., Gen., n. 

 158. — Endl., Gen., n. 5391.— H. Bn., in Adan- 5390. — B. H., Gen., 2-10, n. 40.— Bocq., in 

 sonia, x. 19G. Adansonia., vii. 54. — Tricuspis Pees., Enchirid., 



2 R. & Pay., Prodr., (1794), 61, t. 3G; Syst., ii. 9. 



