376 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



axillary, :2-nate, tree or connate ; flowers' in simple or much oftener 

 ramified compound racemes, often springing from squamose buds 

 within one year old loaves; pedicels articulate (All Trop. and Sub- 

 trqp. regions of Old World 1 ). 



II. EUTHEMIDEvE. 



5. Euthemis Jack. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; sepals 5, often 

 ciliate, imbricated, deciduous, or persistent. Petals same in number, 

 longer, imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, or 10, of which 5 are 

 alternipetalous, sterile ; anthers fertile, subsessile, rostrate, 2-celled, 

 poricidal at apex. Germen inserted on receptacle, slightly produced 

 beyond androceum, semi-5-celled, elongated, produced at apex in sub- 

 ulate-acute style ; ovules in each cell (alternipetalous) 2, descending ; 

 micropjde extrorse, superior. Berry pulpous, 5-pyrenous ; pyrense 

 fibrous, 1, 2-spermous; seeds descending ; testa membranous ; albu- 

 men fleshy ; embryo axile, terete ; radicle superior, elongated. — 

 Glabrous shrubs ; branches terete ; leaves alternate, petiolate, cori- 

 aceous, lucid, sharply serrate ; nerves crowded, parallel ; stipules 

 ciliate, caducous ; flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed bracteate 

 racemes, often in axil of each bract, 2-nate, bracteolate (Malay Arch.). 

 See p. 3(57. 



III. LUXEMBUBGLE. 



6. Luxemburgia A. S. H. — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 conical, suboblique. Sepals 5, unequal, sometimes ciliate, imbri- 

 cated, deciduous. Petals 5, alternate, equal, imbricate-convolute, 

 very patent. Stamens 4-8 or go, hypogynous ; filaments very short, 

 connate in posterior mass ; anthers basifixed, linear, aggregate, 

 2-celled, 2-porous at apex. Germen excentric, lanceolate, sometimes 

 very shortly stipitate, 3-5-agonal, apex in subulate acute narrow 

 style; placentas 3-5, parietal, more or less prominent; ovules co, 



1 Palo yellow, often handsome ; fructiferous Adansonia, ix. 74. — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 



receptacle often rather purple. 31(3. — Hook., Icon., t. 5S8. — Thw., Fnum. 



- Spec. 25. Roxb., PI, Coromand., t. 89.— VI. Zeyl., 70.— Sot. Mag., t. 4519.— W alp., 



Wl&HT, III., t, 69.— A. RICH., FL Sen. Tent., Rep., \. 527; ii. 826; v. 400; Ann., i. 179 ; ii. 



i. 137, t. 35. — Hakv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 448. — 260 ; vii. 513. 

 Kl., in Pet. Moss., Boh, 88, t. 16. — H. Bn., in 



