408 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



glandular at apex, introrsely rimose ; 5 sterile oppositipetalous, 

 inserted slightly above disk, long petaloid, sparsely glandular, glan- 

 dular at apex. Germen central, long stipitate ; cells 5, oppositi- 

 petalous, tuberculate, each crowned with conoid gland at apex ; 

 ovules 2, descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior ; style slender, 

 inserted at summit of germen, stigmatiferous, entire, not dilated at 

 apex. Capsule stipitate, thick, ligneous, subglobose- 5 -agonal, eclii- 

 nate, septicidally 5-valved ; endocarp cartilaginous, free, circumcissile 

 at margin : seeds subhorizontal ; testa crustaceous ; embryo exal- 

 buminous ; cotyledons conferruminate, thick, fleshy, oily ; radicle 

 minute. — A lofty pellucid-punctuate tree ; branches decussate, oppo- 

 site or 3-nate ; leaves decussate, petiolate, acutely crenulate, parallel 

 nerved ; flowers in terminal compound cymiferous racemes 1 {South 

 Africa). 



IV. BOKONIE^]. 



26. Eoronia Sm. — Mowers 4-merous ; receptacle rather convex 

 or concave. Sepals free or connate at base, decussate-imbricate. 

 Petals 4, alternate, scarcely unguiculate, imbricated. Stamens S, 

 2-seriate, hypogynous or perigynous, inserted without glandular 

 disk ; filaments free, glabrous, ciliate, tuberculate or glandular below 

 apex, more rarely pilose ; the oppositipetalous sometimes antherless ; 

 anthers ovate or cordate, muticous at apex or sometimes produced in 

 various appendices, introrsely 2-rimose. Carpels 4, oppositipetalous, 

 surrounded at base by disk ; germens free, 2-ovulate ; ovules descend- 

 ing, collateral or superposed ; micropyle extrorse, superior ; others 

 sometimes ascending ; styles 4, soon coalescing in one, stigmatiferous 

 capitate 4-lobed apex. Cocci 2-4, free, 1, 2-spermous, usually solute 

 from endocarp, dehiscing. Seeds albuminous ; embryo often terete. — 

 Glabrous, pilose or tomentose shrubs, glandular-punctuate or tuber- 

 culate ; odour rutaceous ; leaves opposite, simple or 3-foliolate, often 

 pinnate ; folioles entire or serrulate, articulate ; racliis sometimes 

 winged ; flowers axillary and terminal, solitary or cymose ; cymes 

 simple or ramified ; pedicels bracteolate, articulate {Australia). See 

 p. 393. 



1 Spec. 1. C. capense Tiittnb., loc. cit., 41, loc. cit. — Dictamnus capensis L. f., Swppl., 

 42, 43 ; Prodr. Fl. Cap., 44. — Habt. & Sond., 232. — D. Calodendron Lamk., III., t. 344, 

 Fl. Cap., i. 371. — PaUasia capensis Houtt., fig. 2. 



