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NATUltAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



superior. Fruit indehiscent, apiculate, furnished with base of calyx ; 

 pericarp thin or more or less spongiose-suberose ; seeds oo, hippo- 

 crepiform complicate; albumen fleshy, sometimes thin or ; embryo 

 arched or reliexed ; cotyledons semiterete, shorter than superior 

 radicle. — Trees or evergreen shrubs ; leaves alternate simple ex- 

 stipulate coriaceous, entire or serrate-crenate ; flowers axillary soli- 

 tary pedunculate or cymose 2-od ; bracts under flower 2, 3, ana- 

 logous to sepals {Trop. America, Asia, Ltd. Arch.). See p. 239. 



9. Adinandra Jack. 1 — Flowers nearly of Ternstrcemia; stamens 

 free or 1-5-adelphous at base ; filaments often hirsute. Germen 3-5- 

 locular ; style entire or 3-5-fid stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in 

 each cell cr, crowded, affixed to rather prominent placenta. Fruit 

 indehiscent ; seeds ex, small; embryo albuminous; inflexed coty- 

 ledons semiterete, shorter than superior radicle. — Evergreen trees ; 2 

 leaves alternate ; flowers 3 axillary pedunculate solitary ; peduncle 

 short or recurved, 2-bracteolate at apex {Trop. Asia, Trap. Africa*). 



10. Eroteum Sw. 5 — Flowers nearly of Ternstrcemia, herma- 

 phrodite or polygamous; stamens 15- ex, usually adnate to corolla 

 at base; anthers glabrous or sometimes (Clej/era 6 ) pilose. Germen 

 2, 3-locular or more rarely 5-locular {Lettsomia 7 ) ; ovules <x, inserted 

 within at middle of cell or slightly above, descending ; style more or 

 less high, sometimes deeply (Tristyliunf) 2-5-fid. Fruit indehiscent; 

 seeds ordinary ; albumen fleshy ; embryo inflexed ; cotyledons semi- 

 terete, shorter than radicle. — Trees or shrubs ; habit of Ternstrcemia or 

 Eurya ; leaves more or less coriaceous glabrous tomentose or setose, 

 sometimes (as in Cldcenacca) with lines impressed by induplicate- 



1 In Hook. Compan. to Bot. Mag., i. 153, — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 5428. — Cuois., in Mem. Gen., 

 xiv. 111.— B. H., Gen., 182, n. Q.—Sarosan- 

 thera Kobth., in Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot., 103, 

 t. 16 (ex B. H.). 



2 Habit sometimes of Ternstrcemia, sometimes 

 of Gordonia. 



3 Large, glabrous or silky. 



4 Spec. 10, of which 1 is African. Hook. & 

 Arn., Voy. Beech., Bot., t. 23 (Cleyera).— 

 Kokth., toe. cit., t. 18.— Miq., Ft. Ind.-Bat., i. 

 p. ii. 476 ; Suppl., i. 478. — Tnw., Enum. PI. 

 Zeyl., 41 (Sarosanthera). — Olia*., Fl. Trop. 

 Afr., i. 170 — Walp., Rep., v. 130 (Sarosan- 

 thera) ; Ann., vii. 362. 



5 Prodr., 85 (1788).— Freziera Sw., Fl. Bid. 

 Qec, 671, t. 19 (1800).— DC, in Mem. Gen., i. 

 414 ; Prodr., i. 524. — Cambess., in Mem. Mits., 

 xvi. 404. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 63. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 5412. — Chojs., in Mem. Gen., 

 xiv. 120.— B. H., Gen., 183, n. 11. 



5 DC, Prodr., i. 524 (nee Thunb.). — 

 Cambi ss., in Mem. Mus., xvi. 405. — DC, 

 Prodr., i. 525 (part.).— Endl., Gen., n. 5111. 

 — Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 109. — B. II. 

 Gen., 183, n. 10. — Hoferia Scop., Introd., n. 

 846 (ex Endl., loo. cit.). 



7 R, & Pat., Prodr., 77, t. 14.— Chois., in 

 Mem. Gen., xiv. 123. 



8 Tttrcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 247. 



