BIXACEJS. 311 



5. Dovyalis F. Met. 1 — Flowers dioecious apetalous, 4-S-merous. 

 Sepals valvate or scarcely imbricated, usually thick. Stamens co ; 

 receptacle more or less depressed, sometimes subcupulate, between 

 insertion more or less produced in glandules entire or 2-lobed ; fila- 

 ments free ; anthers extrorse, 2-locular, 2-rimose. Germen (in male 

 flower 0) surrounded by base of unequally lobed disk 2 free, 1-locular ; 

 placentas parietal 2-5 ; styles same in number, more or less dilated 

 at apex stigmatiferous ; ovules on each placenta 1, or rarely 2 {Eudo- 

 vyalis), oftener 2-6 (A5e?ia 3 ), descending ; micropyle introrse supe- 

 rior. Berry oligospermous, interior pulpous. Seeds outwardly 

 glabrous or oftener villous ; testa coriaceous ; embryo albuminous ; 

 cotyledons wide. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes spinescent; leaves 

 alternate, articulated at base, entire or crenate, penninerved or sub- 

 3-penninerved ; stipules very small or ; flowers axillary or terminal ; 

 female solitary or in very few-flowered cymes ; male few shortly 

 racemose-cymes {South and Eastern Africa and Zeylania?). 



6. Trinieria Harv. 5 — Flowers dioecious, 4, 5-merous or oftener 

 3-merous ; sepals scarcely imbricated and petals same in number, 

 alternate, larger, imbricated. Glandules 3-5, alternijDetalous ; sta- 

 mens co, often few, exterior ; filaments free, finally exserted ; anthers 

 extrorse, short, rimose. Stamens in female flower 0. Germen free 

 (in male flower often small, barren), 1-locular; styles 3, apex stigma- 

 tiferous obtuse ; placentas same in number, parietal ; ovules on each 

 placenta 1, 2, descending; micropvle introrse superior. Capsule 

 3-valved ; valves seminiferous at middle. — Tree or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate serrate, base 3-ao -nerved ; flowers small, in spikes, axillary 

 racemes with single bracts, 1 -bracteolate, 2-nate or co, glomerate 

 {South America 6 ). 



1 Ex Abn., in Rook. Joum., iii. (1811), 251. 4 Spec. 7, of which 6 are African. A. Rich., Fl. 

 — Clos, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 233. — Abyss. Tent.,\. t.S(Roumea). — Haev. & Sond., 

 B. H., Gen. 123, n. 20.— H. Bn., in Adansonia, Fl. Cap., i. 69, 70 (Aberia). — Tul., in Ann. Sc. 

 x . 251. Nat., ser. 5, ix. 339. — Walp., Ann., ii. 62; 



2 Staminodes sometimes hypogynous l-oo , or vii. 231. 



sterile (H. Bx., in Adansonia, v. 62), or some- ~° Gen. of S.-Afric. PL, 417. — Endl., Gen., 



times as it seems fertile ; whence fertile seeds are n. 50S9 1 . — B. H., Gen., 129, n. 22. — Monospora 



derived without contact of male and female HoCHST., in Flora (1844) Beil., 3. — Endl., 



flowers (T. Andeesox, in Joum. Linn. Soc, Gen., n. 5789 1 , 5092' 2 . — Renardia Tuecz., in 



vii. 57), very similar to false parthenogenesis of Bull. Hose, (1858), i. 466. 



Xylosma. 6 Spec. 2. Hook., Icon., t. 481 (Antidesma). 



3 Hociist., in Flora (1844), Beil., 2. — Clos, —Haev. & Sond., FL Cap., i. 68. — Walp., 

 in Ann,, 8c. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 235. — B. H., Rep., v. 47 {Monospora) • Ann., vii. 232. 

 Gen., 128, n. 21. 



