BIXAGEJE. 



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stipules minute ; flowers 1 in simple or oftener compound cymiferous 

 racemes, short or elongated; pedicels bracteolate (Trop. America?). 



21. Aphloia Benn. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous ; recep- 

 tacle cupuliform, interior furnished with thin disk. Sepals 4, 5, 

 much imbricated. 4 Stamens co, inserted with slightly perigynous 

 calyx outside the disk ; filaments free, corrugate-inflexed in bud ; 

 anthers short, introrse, 2-rimose, finally exserted. Germen subcen- 

 tral, free sessile, produced in short style, peltate-stigmatiferous 

 wide at apex ; ovules oo, usually few, inserted in 2 series on parietal 

 placentas, horizontal campylotropous. 5 Fruit baccate, finally often 

 dry, dehiscent (?) ; seeds few, obovoid-incurved ; testa crustaceous ; 

 albumen thin ; embryo incurved ; cotyledons ovate. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves 6 alternate articulated entire, dentate or polymorphous 

 and variously inciso-lobed ; flowers axillary, solitary or few, sessile 

 or pedicellate {Trop. Eastern Ins. Africa 7 ). 



22. Azara E. & Pav. 8 — Flowers apetalous hermaphrodite or more 

 rarely polygamous ; receptacle depressed or rather concave. 9 Sepals 

 4 or more rarely 5, 6, valvate or more rarely more or less imbricated. 1 " 

 Stamens oo, in phalanges equal in number to sepals, and superposed 

 to them ; filaments in each co or more rarely subdefmite in num- 

 ber ; n the lateral often with the exterior gradually smaller, and some- 

 times antherless ; anthers short, 2-locular, extrorse, 2-rimose. Glan- 

 dules 4-6, placed before sepals free, or connate at base in subperi- 

 gynous disk. Germen free (in male flower rudimentary), inserted in 



1 Small, sometimes virescent, pubescent or 

 tomentose. 



2 Spec, ad 12. Pcepp. & Endi, Nov. Gen. et 

 Spec., iii. 74, t. 285 (Kuhlia). — Tux., in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat., ser. 3, vii. 288. — Griseb., Fl. Brit. 

 W.-Ind„ 22 {Trilix).— Tb. & Pi, in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 100 (part.). — Waip., Rep., i. 

 204, 205 {Pineda); ii. 765; Ann., i. 61. 



3 PI. Jav. Ear., 192.— Endi., Gen., n. 5072 2 

 — Cios, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 271, 273. 

 — Benth, in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl, 85. — 

 B. H, Gen., 126, n. 11. — H. Bn, in Adansonia, 

 x. 253. — Neumannia A. Rich., Fl. Cub., 96, 

 not. (nee Ad. Be.). 



4 Usually thinly spotted. 



5 Raphe short, micropyle extrorse lateral ; 

 coats double. 



6 When dry, often pale lutescent-virescens. 



7 Spec. 2, 3. PoiE., Diet., v. 627 (ProcHa). 

 — Lame, III., t. 465, fig. 3 (Prockia).— Vahi, 



Symb. Pot., ii. 69, 70 {LigHfootia). — Tui, in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, ix. 431 (Apklcea). — Waip., 

 Ann., vii. 226. 



8 Prodr., 79, t. 36.— Poir., Diet., Suppl., i. 

 550.— DC, Prodr., i. 262.— Endi, Gen., n. 

 5075. — Pater, Fam. Nat., 110.— Benth, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl, 85. — B. H, Gen., 

 127, 972, n. 14. — H. Bn, in Adansonia, x. 

 525. — Lilenia Berter, in Bull. Sc. Nat., xx. 

 108 (ex Endi.). — Tetracocyne Turcz., in Bull. 

 Mosc (1863), i. 555. 



9 Sometimes outside below insertion of calyx 

 thickened in ring. 



10 Sometimes finally fleshy, or inwardly pilose. 



11 " In A. microphylla (Hook. F, Fl. Ant., 

 ii. t. 244, not.), stam. defin. cum sepal, altern. et 

 gland, totid. sepal, oppos, ut in Homalineis, sed 

 stam. vix perig., et caet. omn. cum Azara con- 

 veniunt." (B. H, loc cit.) 



