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wards versatile, rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary or 

 usually 0) free, falsely 2-co -Jocular ; styles 2-co , separate or con- 

 nate at base to greater or less height, apex stigmatiferous blunt or 

 2-lobed ; ovules in internal angle of cell 2-co , descending ; micropyle 

 extorse superior. Fruit drupaceous; endocarp in putamen 2-co , 

 seeds separate indurated. Seeds often obovcid ; testa subcoriaceous ; 

 embryo albuminous, cotyledons suborbiculate. — Trees or shrubs, 

 often spinescent ; leaves alternate, dentate or serrate ; petiole arti- 

 culated at base ; stipules very small ; flowers small in small racemes 

 or glomerules axillary and terminal, simple or compound, sometimes 

 subumbellate (Asia. Africa, and Warm Australia). See p. 276. 



4. Xylosma Forst. 1 — Flowers (nearly of Flacourtia) dioecious or 

 sometimes polygamous ; receptacle shortly conical. Sepals 4-6, 

 sometimes squamiform, often ciliate, imbricated. Disk within calyx 

 glandular-fleshy unequally lobed. Stamens go, sometimes few, within 

 disk ; filaments free, usually finally exserted ; aiithers extrorse, finally 

 often versatile ; cells longitudinally rimose. Germen (in male 

 flower 0) within disk free (more rarely surrounded by a few stami- 

 nodes), 1-locular ; style subentire or divided into 2-6 branches to a 

 greater or less length, apex dilated stigmatiferous ; placentas parietal 

 2-6, alternating with style branches, ovules in each placenta 1, 2, or 

 few, either all ascending ; micropyle (obturate) introrse inferior ; or 

 1, 2, superior, descending. Berry small, indehiscent; seeds 1, 2, or 

 few ; testa crustaceous ; embryo albuminous ; cotyledons wide. — 

 Trees or shrubs, 2 often spinescent ; leaves alternate, dentate, or more 

 rarely entire, articulate at base ; stipules small ; flowers 3 growing on 

 the wood or glomerate at axils or in short racemose cymes ; pedicel 

 slender, sometimes articulated 4 (All Tropical arid Subtropical Regions'). 



1 Prodr., 72. — Lame., III., t. 827. — Poie., 2 Wood sometimes odoriferous. 



Diet., viii. 817. — Endl., Gen., n. 5081 1 . — 3 Small, filaments sometimes purple. 



Clos, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 127. — 4 Plants in gardens falsely parthenogenesic. 



Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 86. — (See Adansonia, v. 63). 



B. H., Gen., 128, n. 19.— Myroxylon Foest., 6 Spec, ad 25. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 



Char. Gen., 125, t. 63 (nee L. f.). — Hisingera vii. t. 654 {Flacourtia). — Poit., in Mem. Mus., 



Hellen., in Act. Holm. (1792), 32, t. 2. — i. 62, t. 4 (Roumea). — Sieb. & Zucc, Fl. Jap., 



Endl., Gen., n. 5815. — Clos, loc. cit., 220. — t. 88 {Rising era).— Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 



Bessera Spkeng., PI. Pugill., ii. 90 (ex Endl.). p. ii. 105. — A. Geay, Amer. Fxpl. Fxp., 



— Roumea Poit., in Mem. Mus., i. 62, t. 4. — Rot., i. 76. — Walp., Ann., iv. 108; vii. 229, 



Crmpaloprumnon Kakst., PI. Fl. Colomb., 123, 230 (Hisingera, Crapaloprumnon). 

 t. 161, 162. 



