BUT ACE JE. 487 



5-valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate ; filaments inserted below 10-cos- 

 tate disk, free, pilose or scantily granulose-glandular ; anthers in- 

 trorse, shortly apiculate, longitudinally rimose. Germen conical, 

 5-locular ; cells oppositipetalous, 1 -ovulate ; ovule descending; 

 microp^le extrorse, superior; raphe more or less long, free; style 

 small, erect, 5-sulcate, minute, stigmatiferous at apex. Drupe dry, 

 3-5-locular ; seeds solitary in cells ; testa crustaceous ; albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons foliaceous, slightly longer and 

 wider than radicle. Other characters of Acronycltia. — Glabrous 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved, pellucid- 

 punctuate ; flowers small, in terminal ramified cymiferous corymbi- 

 form clusters 1 {Australia, N. Caledonia:). 



64. Skimmia Thunb. 3 — Flowers polygamous-dioecious, 4, 5-me- 

 rous; receptacle short, convex. Sepals subfreeor connate at base, im- 

 bricated. Petals longer, imbricated or subvalvate. Stamens alter- 

 nating with petals, equal to them in number ; filaments free ; anthers 

 (effete in female flowers) introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in 

 male flower) surrounded by base of disk, lobed between stamens ; cells 

 2-5 ; 4 style terminal, sometimes very short, at apex stigmatiferous, 

 more or less dilated, 2-5-lobed. Ovule solitary in cell, 5 at internal 

 angle, descending, anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior. 6 Drupe 

 glabrous ; 7 mesocarp pulpy ; pyrenas 2-5, scarious or cartilaginous. 

 Seed solitary in pyrena, descending ; albumen fleshy ; embryoes 

 l-oo; 8 cotyledons oblong; radicle terete superior.- — Glabrous ever- 

 green shrubs, in all parts glandular-punctuate ; leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, simple, entire, coriaceous, exstipulate ; flowers 9 in terminal 

 ramified cymiferous racemes {Centro-easteni Temj). Asia™). 



n 



1 A genus certainly allied to SJcimma Aco- 7 Outwardly glandular-punctuate, usually red. 



ychia (of which perhaps it is a section), dif- 8 Whence many little plants spring from one 



fering principally in number of floral organs pyrena (whence perhaps it has been considered 



and in solitary ovules. polyspcrmous), as in most Auranliece, to which it 



2 Spec. 1, 2. is nearly allied. 



3 Ft. Jap., 62. — J., Gen., 425. — G.ertn. f., 9 Congested, whitish or virescens, sometimes 

 Fruct., iii. 242, t. 225. — Font., Bid., vii. 221 ; outwardly purplish, inodorous. 



Suppl., v. 1G1. — DC, Prodr., ii. 18.— Endl., 10 Spec. 4, very varied. (KffiMPF., Amaen., 



Gen., n. 5712.— B. H. Gen., 302, 992, n. 68. — 779 (Sin-San v. Mijcma-Skimmi). — Banks, 



Laureola Rcem., 8yn. Hesp., 74 — Anquetilia Icon. Kctmpf., t. 5.— DC, Prodr., i. 536, n. 2 



Dcxe., in Voy. Jacquem., Pot., 161, t. 161. (Limonia).— Wall., PI. As. Par., iii. t. 215. — 



4 Alternating with stamens, equal in number Lem., in III. Sort. (1854), t. 13.— Pot. Mag., 

 to them. t. 4719. — Walp., Rep., i. 541; v. 104; Ann., 



5 Ex A. Gkay (fid. B. H., Gen., 992), 1-5. vii. 531. 



6 Fuuicle short, thick ; cudostome rather 

 long, tubular dilated beyond exostome. 



