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17. Scolopia Schreb. 1 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle wide 

 pateriform or sub plane orbiculate-discoidal at apex. Sepals 4-6, 

 inserted at margin, imbricated, subvalvate or open long before an- 

 thesis, not contiguous. Petals (sometimes 0) alternating with sepals 

 and often subsimilar, sometimes at base suddenly narrowed, imbri- 

 cated or not contiguous. Stamens co, inserted oo-seriate on the upper 

 surface of the receptacle, hypogynous or really perigynous ; filaments 

 erect free; anthers extrorse, 2-locular, 2-rimose, surmounted by a 

 connective process various in form, glabrous pilose (more rarely 0). 

 Disk perigynous; receptacle, either sparingly between the inser- 

 tion of stamens, or more thickly outwardly, dilate-glandular ; glan- 

 dules sometimes very conspicuous, exterior stamens (pale yellow) 

 single or in pairs alternating with sepals. Gfermen free central, ses- 

 sile or shortly stipitate, 1-locular, apex tapering in short subentire or 

 stigmatiferous 3, 4-lobed style ; placentas parietal 3, 4, alternating 

 with stigmatiferous lobes ; ovules on each 2- oo, descending ; rnicro- 

 pyle introrse superior. Berry inwardly pulpous ; seeds 2-co ; funicle 

 more or less elongated ; testa hard ; embryo albuminous, cotyledons 

 foliaceous. — Trees or shrubs, unarmed or spinescent; leaves alter- 

 nate, penninerved, entire, sinuate or dentate ; petiole at apex some- 

 times 2-glandular, articulate at base ; stipules minute lateral, cadu- 

 cous ; flowers in axillary or subterminal cymiferous racemes (Tropical 

 and Subtropical Africa, Asia, and Australia-). 



18. Ludia Lamk. 3 — Flowers nearly of Scolopia, apetalous; sepals 

 4-8, imbricated. Exterior of disk dilated in oppositipetalous glan- 

 dules. Stamens co 3 subperigynous ; anthers extrorse, finally more 

 or less versatile. Germen nearly of Scolopia ; style finally elongated, 

 3-6-fid at apex ; ovules on same number of parietal placentas oo. 



1 Gen., 335 (1789).— Clos, in Ann. Sc. Nat., 

 ser. 4, viii. 244. — Payee, Fam. Nat. 111. — 

 Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 86. — 

 B. H. Gen., 127, n. 15. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, 

 x. 253. — Phoberos Loue., Fl. Cocinch. (ed. 

 1790), 317.— Endl., Gen., n. 5068. — Limonia 

 GjEBTn., Fruct. i. 278, t. 58 (nee L.). — Dasy- 

 anthera Peesl, Mel. Hcenk., ii. 90, t. 66. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 5018. — Rhinanthera Bl., Bijdr., 

 1121. — Endl., Gen., n. 5069. — Eriudaphus 

 Nees, in Eckl. et Zeyh. Enum. PI. Afric, 271. 

 — Payee, Fam. Nat., 111. — Adenogyrus Kl., 

 in Walp. Ann., iv. 226. 



2 Spec, ad 15. Wight & Aen., Prodr., i. 29 



( Phoberos).— Benn., PI. Jav. Par., 187, t. 39 

 (Phoberos). — Haey. & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 67 

 (Phoberos). — Benth., Fl. Hongfr., 19. — Miq., 

 Fl. Ind,-Bat.,\. p. ii. 106 ; Fl. Sum., 159.— 

 Thw., Enum. PI. Zeyl., 16. — Hance, in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xviii. 214; ser. 5, v. 207. — - 

 H. Bn., in Adansonia, i. 120 (Eriudaphus). — 

 Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 107. — F. Muell., 

 Fragm., iii. 11.— Waip., Ann., vii. 227, 228 

 (Eriudaphus). 



3 Diet., iii. 612; III., t. 466. — "DC, Prodr.,\. 

 261. — Endl., Gen., n. 5070. — Clos, in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 243.— B. H., Gen., 126, n. 

 10. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 253. 



