482 NATU1L1L HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stipitatc, short, inserted together and connate among themselves at 

 base, 1-locnlar, afterwards free and tapering in an equal number of 

 styles, cohering among themselves, slightly thickened, reflexed, 

 stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules (fertile?) in each cell solitary or rarely 

 2-nate, descending; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit.. .? — A 

 tree (?) ; leaves alternate (?), imparipinnate ; folioles opposite, very 

 short, petiolate, ovate-oblique, tomentose, epunctuate, insipid ; 

 flowers in much ramified terminal cymiferous racemes ; pedicels 

 articulate (Manilla 1 ). 



54. Deeatropis Hook, f. 2 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle sub- 

 cylindrical. Calyx inserted on receptacle, short, cupuliform, 5- 

 dentate, rather thick, villous, immersed in w T ool. Petals 5, inserted 

 with calyx, lanceolate, patent membranous, valvate, at apex acute in- 

 flexed. Stamens 10, inserted with perianth, the 5 oppositipetalous 

 shorter ; filaments free, subulate ; anthers subcordate, introrse, 

 2-rimose. Carpels oppositipetalous 5, inserted at summit of recep- 

 tacle, free ; germens dorsally longitudinally sulcate, laterally 2-cari- 

 nate ; styles short slender, thick obconical stigmatiferous at apex, 

 coherent among themselves ; ovules in each ovary 2, collaterally 

 ascending ; micropyle extrorse. Fruit . . . ? — A tree (?) ; branches 

 terete ; twigs, petioles, and leaves below densely velutinate-tomen- 

 tose ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; petiole terete ; folioles 4, 

 5-jugate, opposite, thickly petiolulate, oblong or linear -lanceolate, 

 entire, coriaceous, impressed-punctulate ; flowers 3 in large much rami- 

 fied axillary glomeruliferous racemes (Mtwico 4 ). 



55. Polyaster Hook, f. 5 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 depressed conical. Sepals 5, small, imbricated. Petals same in 

 number, alternate, sub-3-agonal, valvate. Disk thick, glandular - 

 punctuate, obscurely 10-lobed, prominent between stamens. Stamens 

 10, 2-seriate, inserted below disk; filaments subulate, pilose ; anthers 

 introrse, sub-2-dymous, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, oppositipetalous ; ger- 

 mens free ; styles short, coalescing in rather thick column, at apex 

 stigmatiferous, 5-lobed, capitate; ovules in germens 2, collaterally 

 descending; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit . . .? — An unarmed 



1 Spec. 1. C. Cumimgicma H. Bn., loc. cit. 4 Spec. 1. D. Coulteri Hook, f., loc. cit. 



- Gen., 298, n. 55. & o e n., 299, n. 56. 



3 Small, crow Jed, while. 



