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NATUJUL niSTOEY OF PLANTS. 



indehiscent. Seeds cc ; albumen copious or scanty j embryo axile ; 

 cotyledons foliaceous or (in seeds scantily albuminous) thick, fleshy, 

 slightly plano-convex. — Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate or more 

 rarely opposite, simple, entire, sinuate or dentate penninerved ; 

 si i pules various or ; flowers axillary, lateral or terminal, solitary 

 or oftener cymose, sometimes cymose-racemose 1 (Troj). America, Aus- 

 tralia, Asia and Madagascar*). See p. 180. 



36. Vallea Mut. 3 — Flowers 4-5-merous ; receptacle short, rather 

 thick ; sepals valvate. Petals 3-lobed at apex, imbricate. 4 Stamens go, 

 inserted by pairs on slightly thickened annulate glandular receptacle ; 

 filament free; anthers basifixed erect, elongate 4-angled, sublaterally 

 from apex to base more or less long rimose. Germen 3-5-locular ; 

 ovules in cells 2, ascending-; micropyle extrorse inferior; style subulate, 5 

 apex stigmatiferous, 3-5-lobed. Capsule muricate, externally locu- 

 licidal 3-5-val ved, rather fleshy, finally dry ; endocarp thick ligneous 

 inwardly septiferous between valves. Seeds few, ellipsoid-oblong, 

 shortly acuminate on both sides, exterior smooth ; embryo ? — Trees ; 

 leaves alternate, ovate-cordate entire ; stipules foliaceous or reniform, 

 sometimes ; flowers terminal or axillary, few, racemose cymose 

 pedunculate 6 {South West. Mountainous America!). See p. 180. 



37. Antholoma Labill. 8 — Flowers nearly of Sloanea / calyx 

 gamophyllous subcorneal, apex 4- or more rarely 5-dentate, valvate, 



1 Does Phanicospermum javaniciim Miq., (in 

 Ann. Mas. Lvgd.-Bat., ii. 68, t. 3; — B. H., 

 Gen., 987, n. 35 a), with 4-merous flowers of 

 Sloanea and seeds nearly completely involute 

 in miniate aril belong to this genus ? 



2 Spec, ad 40. Plum., Gen., 15 {Sloanea). 

 — Sw., Fl. Ind. Occ, ii. 938. — Aubl., loc. cit., 

 t. 212.— Hook., Icon., t. 693, 696.— Mobic, 

 Fl. Nouv. Amer., t. 55 (Adenobasiuni). — 

 Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 98.— Benth., Fl. 

 Austral., i. 279 (Echinocarpu.s). — Te. & Pl., 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 345. — Seem., 

 Voy. Her., Bot., 85, t. 15. — Wali>., Ann., vii. 

 452, 453 [JDasycarpus, Dasynema, Foveolaria), 

 454 (Ec/iinocarpus). 



3 Ex L. in.., Suppl., 42.— DC, Prodr., i. 

 520. — SPACH, Suit. a Bvffon, iv. 49. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5389.— 15. EL, Gen., 238, n. 33.— 

 BoCQ., in Adan&onia, vii. 53. 



4 Lobes also imbricate with each other. 



5 Tubular, inwardly (at apex of dissepiments), 

 imperfectly septate. 



e Gen., notwithstanding habit, much better 

 referred to section Tricuspidaria ? 



7 Spec. 2, 3 (v. all varieties of one ?) B. & 

 Pav., Prodr., t. 14.— H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 

 Spec, v. 350, t. 489.— Ttjrcz., in Bull. Mosc. 

 (1863), ii. 576.— Tb. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 357. — Walp., Ann., vii. 

 451. 



8 See ii. 266, t. 41 ; Pl. Nouv.-Holl., t. 41. 

 — DC, Prodr., i. 565.— Endl., Gen., n. 5162. 

 — H. Bn., in Adansonia, ii. 21, 1. 1, figs. 1-6. — 

 B. H., Gen., 239, 987, n. 36.— Bocq., in Adan- 

 sonia, vii. 50. 



9 Sometimes aborted polygamous ? 



