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style simple, apex stigmatiferous not thickened or scarcely so, sub- 

 entire, or very shortly denticulate {Mayna"), sometimes slightly lobed 

 or lobes stronger ascending or radiated, separate or peltate coalescing • 

 3-7-fid ; lobes entire or more or less laciniate {Carpotroche-), more 

 rarely much ramified (Dendrostylis*). Fruit subbaccate, more or less 

 coriaceous and finally ligneous, smooth (Euoncoba), sulcate or marked 

 with elevated ribs, sometimes echinate, tubercuiate or muricate 

 (Mayna), more rarely longitudinally co-winged ; wings tubercuiate 

 {Carpotroche), sometimes submembranous crested (Grandidiera*) ; peri- 

 carp more rarely outwardly much echinate (Dendrostylis), usually 

 indehiscent, sometimes with difficulty dehiscing or in valves. Seed 

 co of various forms ; testa crustaceous, sometimes outwardly more or 

 less pulpous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo (sometimes coloured) straight 

 or incurved cotyledons subovate foliaceous. — Trees or shrubs un- 

 armed or armed with axillary spines, glabrous or pubescent ; leaves 

 alternate, entire crenate, or serrate ; stipules linear, small or ; 

 flowers 5 solitary, terminal or axillary, sometimes in axillary racemes, 

 more rarely growing from wood of trunk or one year-old branches, 

 lateral (All Tropical Regions*). 



II. FLACOURTIE^E. 



3. Flacourtia Commers. — Flowers dioecious or polygamous apeta- 

 lous ; sepals 4, 5, often squamiform ciliate, much imbricated, some- 

 times in female flower very small or slightly bractiform. Disk 

 glandular annular more or less thick, entire or 4, 5 -lobed. Stamens 

 co (in female flower 0, or sterile), inserted in more or less depressed 

 disk of receptacle ; filaments free ; anthers extrorse, 2-locular, after- 



1 Attbl., G-uian. (1775), 921, t. 352 (nee 5 Large, handsome, or ordinary, more rarely 

 Radd.).— J., Gen., 281. — Lamk., III., t. 491. — small, whitish, or yellow. 



DC, Prodr., i. 79.— Endl., Gen., n. 4734. — 6 Spec, about 25, of which 15 are American. 



Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 80. — PtEPP. &]Endl„ Nov. Gen. et Spec, iii. 63, t. 



Olit., in Journ. Linn.. Soc., ix. 172. — Lin- 270 (Lindackeria), 64, t. 271 (Mayna).— Clos, 



dackeria Peesl, Eel. Hcenk., ii. 89, t. 65. — in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 262 {Mayna). — 



Endl., Gen., n. 5064. Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 66. — Guillem. & 



2 Endl., Gen., n. 5066. — Mayna Radd., PI. Peer., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. t. 10. — Sieb. & Zr/cc, 

 Nov. Bras., 23 (nee Aubl.). PL Nov. Fane, ii. t. 5 (Mayna). — A. Gray, 



3 Karst. & Te., in Linnaa, xxviii. 431. — Amer. Expl. Exp., Bot., i. 72 (Carpotroche). — 

 Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 82. — Oliy., Fl. Prop. Afr., i. 114. — Kaest., Fl. 

 B. H., Gen., 125, n. 7. Columb., ii. p. ii. t. 106 (Lindackeria). — Te. & 



1 Jaub., in Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr., xii. 467. — Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 94 (Mayna), 



Oliy., Fl. Prop. Afr., i. 119. — H. Bm., in 95 (Dendrostylis). — Walp., Ann., vii. 223 



Adansonia, x. 250. (Chlanis, Mayna), 224 (Dendrostylis). 



