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albuminous ; radicle .short ; cotyledons foliaceous suborbiculate. — 

 Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, sub- 

 serrate, not punctuate ; stipules minute, deciduous ; flowers small in 

 terminal compound racemes ; bracts and bractlets small, approxi- 

 mate, in short involucel {Zeylania and Philippine Islds. 1 ). 



13 ? Euceraea Mart. 2 — "Flowers very small ; calyx lobes 4, imbri- 

 cated. Stamens 8 ; 4 alternate, shorter ; filaments alternate with 

 elongated squamules, barbate at apex, connate in short ring. Germen 

 free; style very short; stigma subsessile, radiated, 4-6-partite; 

 ovules 1, 2, ascending. Berry dry, indehiscent; seeds 1, 2, oblique, 

 ascending; base furnished with lacerate aril. — A small glabrous 

 tree ; leaves alternate oblong serrate ; stipules deciduous ; flowers 3 in 

 ramified compound axillary spikes {North Brazil*)." 



14. Lunania Hook. 5 — Flowers (nearly of Guidonia) apetalous, her- 

 maphrodite or more rarely polygamous ; receptacle shortly cupulate. 

 Calyx subglobose membranous, valvate, finally divided into 2-5 

 sepals, patent or reflexed. Stamens 6-12, inserted with squamules 

 same in number, entire or 2-fid, alternate and connate in short 

 cupule at base; filaments free, short or elongate; anthers introrse, 

 ovoid or oblong, 2-rimose. Grermen central free, 1-locular, at apex 

 more or less hians between bases of 3 styles, short, dilated, sub- 

 2-lobed stigmatiferous at apex ; placentas parietal 3, alternate with 

 styles, wide, oo-ovulate. Capsule subcoriaceous oligospermous, 

 3-valved ; seeds nearly of Samyda. — Trees ; branches flexuose ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate, 3- 5 -nerved, minutely pellucid-punctuate ; flowers 

 small, crowded in slender elongated racemes, axillary or terminal, 

 simple or ramified, nodding ; pedicels articulate at base, minutely 

 co -bracteate {West India and Peru 5 ). 



15. Tetrathylacium Pcepp. & Endl. 7 — Flowers polygamous- 



1 Spec. 3, 4. Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, — Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 89.— 

 v. Suppl., 88.— Thw., Enum. Fl. Zeyl., 20. B. H., Gen., 797, n. 4. 



2 Nov. Gen. et Spec, Hi. 90, t. 238. — Endi., 6 Spec. 5, of which 4 are from the Antilles. — 

 Gen., n. 5060 1 , Suppl. i. 1420.— B. H., Gen., Gbiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 20; PI. Amer. Trop., 

 797, n. 3. 26 ; Fl. Wright. Cub., 155; Cat. Fl. Cub., 7. 



3 Small, white. 1 Nov. Gen. et Spec, Hi. 34, t. 240.— B. H., 



4 Spec. 1. E. nitida Mart., loc. cit. — Walp., Gen., 119, n. 14. — Tb. & Pi., in Ann. So. Nat., 

 Rep., v. 407. ser. 4, xvii. 105. — Edmonstonia Seem., Toy. 



5 In Lond. Journ. of Bot., iii. 517, t. 11, 12. Her., Bot., 98, t. 18. 



