266 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



cave, finally in tube adherent to fruit, coriaceous-fleshy, much 

 accrescent. Sepals and petals much imbricated, and co stamens (of 

 Ternstrcemia). Germen quite immersed in receptacle, 3-locular ; 

 style 3-fid at apex ; ovules in each cell 4-co ; seeds co, hippocrepi- 

 form-complicate ; embryo albuminous inflexed ; cotyledons semi- 

 terete, shorter than radicle. — Trees (evergreen) ; habit and inflo- 

 rescence (of Ternstrcemia) ; flowers 1 rather long, pedunculate ; other 

 characters of Ternstrcemia {Malaysia, Martaban 2 ). 



III. SAUKAUJEiE. 



14. Saurauja "VV. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely poly- 

 gamous ; receptacle shortly convex. Sepals 5, unequal, often peta- 

 loid, much imbricated. Petals 5, alternate, free or connate at base, 

 much imbricated. Stamens co ; filaments usually adherent to 

 base of corolla, otherwise free ; anthers basifixed, introrse, after- 

 wards versatile ; cells dehiscent by pores at apex or by short clefts, 

 sometimes finally elongated. Germen 3-5-locular ; styles same in 

 number, free at base or more or less high connate, stigmatiferous at 

 apex, usually reflexed ; ovules co, anatropous, inserted outwardly on 

 placenta, pendulous or laterally adfixed inwardly to internal angle of 

 cell. Berry 3-5-locular, rarely subdry or subdehiscent ; seeds co, 

 small, immersed in pulp ; albumen more or less copious ; embryo 

 straight or curved, cotyledons short. — Trees or shrubs, often 

 strigose-pilose or squamate ; leaves alternate, usually serrate ; veins 

 parallel crowded with divergent ribs, often articulate at base, 

 exstipulate ; flowers axillary or lateral, in racemes simple, or ramified, 

 cymiferous; cymes sometimes 1 -parous at apex; bractlets small, re- 

 mote from calyx {Tropical America, Asia, and Oceania). See p. 242. 



rv. bonnetie^e. 



15. Bonnetia Mart. & Zucc. — Flowers regular hermaphrodite ; 

 receptacle convex. Sepals 5, unequal, imbricated. Petals same in 



1 Large, whitish. 2 Spec. 2. Miq., Fl. Ltd. -Bat., i. p. ii. 488. 



