324 NATURAL IIISTORY OF PLANTS. 



dular-crenate or serrate ; stipules small or ; flowers axillary, 

 in ramified cymiferous racemes (/III warm regions). See p. 276. 



30 ? Byrsanthus Guillem. — Flowers nearly of Ilomalium ; recep- 

 tacle obconical. Sepals 4-6, and petals same in number, alternate, 

 just alike, induplicate at margin, all inserted at summit of receptacle, 

 persistent. Stamens 3 times as many as petals, of which 4-0 

 oppositipetalous, are outwardly accompanied by a glandule, 

 attended without by 2 stamens ; filaments slender ; anthers ex- 

 trorse. Disk within stamens, of 4-6 glands, alternipetalous, 

 perigynous, constant. Germen large, partly adnate to interior of 

 receptacle, 1-locular; placentas 4-6, parietal, co-ovulate ; style at 

 apex 4-6-fid, lobes dilated at summit stigmatiferous. Capsule 

 1-locular, apex 4-6-valved ; seed finally 1 ; albumen fleshy; embryo 

 wide ; cotyledons foliaceous. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate exstipulate ; 

 inflorescence of Ilomalium ; pedicels articulated, very short {Drop. 

 Western Africa). See p. 287. 



VII. PANGIEiE. 



31. Fangium Eumph. — Flowers dioecious; receptacle rather con- 

 vex. Calyx subglobose, valvate, unequally torn. Petals 5-8, im- 

 bricated ; scales same in number, lying upon them inwardly at base. 

 Stamens go ; filaments at base thickened, subfleshy, much atte- 

 nuated at apex ; anthers ovate, introrse, 2-locular, 2-rimose. 

 Stamens in female flower few (4-8), subulate. Germen free, sessile, 

 apex stigmatiferous, wide depressed, subglandular, 2-4-lobed, un- 

 equally sulcate. Ovules go, transverse or oblique, anatropous, 

 inserted on 2 or more rarely 3 parietal placentas rather prominent. 

 Fruit large, baccate, indehiscent ; seeds go, nidulant in pulp, large, 

 unequally compressed ; hilum lateral large, elongated ; testa lig- 

 neous, exterior prominent-nerved ; albumen copious, oily ; embryo 

 axile, more or less oblique ; radicle conical ; cotyledons wide, folia- 

 ceous, base subcordate, digitinerved. — A tree ; leaves alternate ; 

 petiole furnished at base with adnate stipules more or less persis- 

 tent ; limb cordate, digitinerved, entire or 3-lobed at base ; flowers 

 axillary ; males in ramified cymose racemes ; females solitary (Java). 

 See p. 288. 



