BUT ACE J3. 499 



in terminal ramified compound cymiferous racemes {Trop. West. 

 Africa^). 



88. Samandura L. 2 — Flowers nearly of Quassia, 3-5-merous ; 

 calyx small, outwardly glandular at base, imbricated. Petals 3-5, 

 much longer than calyx, contorted; receptacle dilated at base in 

 small squamiform disk within petals, and produced higher in short 

 cylindrical or obconical column-bearing ovary. Stamens inserted 

 with perianth double in number to petals, 2-seriate ; filaments 

 free, furnished within at base with short scales ; anthers introrse 

 included. (jrymeceum 3-5-merous (of Quassia), placed at summit 

 of receptacle. Drupes 1-5, free, finally dry or suberose, widely 

 compressed rigid carinate-winged, seed in each (nearly of Quassia). 

 — Glabrous trees or small trees ; leaves alternate petiolate simple 

 oblong entire coriaceous, beneath slightly beyond base 2-glandular ; 

 flowers 3 few in long pedunculate false racemes {Afadagascar, ZcyJaida, 

 Malaysian Arch . ') . 



89. Mannia Hook. y. s — Flowers hermaphrodite (or polyga- 

 mous ?) ; sepals 5, imbricated. Petals same in number, alternate 

 longer, obtuse, imbricated. Stamens 15—20, inserted outside below 

 thick cupuliform disk, sinuate at margin ; filaments short, free, or 

 slightly connate at base, enlarged at base in short pilose scales ; anthers 

 longer, subglandular at apex, introrsely 2-rimose. Carpels 5, oppo- 

 sitipetalous ; germens 5, free immersed in subcarinate disk, 1-locular; 

 styles same in number coalescing in 5-agonal column, stigmatiferous 

 5-lobed at apex ; ovules in cells solitary " ascending." Fruit. . . ? — 

 A remarkable glabrous tree ; leaves alternate pinnate ; petiole terete ; 

 folioles subopposite petiolulate linear-oblong entire retuse, oblique 

 at base, thick coriaceous ribbed apiculate, glaucous beneath ; flowers 6 



1 Spec. 1. IT. undulata Pl., he. cit. — Oliv., Gen. Nov. Madag., 14. — DC, he. oil. — Man- 

 Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 309. — Walp., Ann., i. 1G3.— dvytia Commeks., mss. (ex DC.).— Manungala 

 Simaba ? undulata Gtjillem. & Peek., Fl. Sen. Blanc., Fl. Flip., 306. 



Tent., i. 136, t. 31. a Rather large. 



2 Fl. Zeyl.,2,01 (1717). — H. Bn., in Adan- 4 Spec. 2, 3. Peesl., Si/mb., ii. t. 51. — 

 sonia, x.fasc. 12. — Samadera Gjeetn., Fruct., ii. Wight, III., t. 68.— Wight & Aun., Prodr., i. 

 (1791) 352, t. 159. — A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., 151. — Hook., Icon., t. 7. — Wall., J'l. As. 

 xii. 516, t. 27, fig. 47.— END!., Gen., n. 5965. — liar., ii. t. 108 (Niota).—Vh., in Rook. Lond. 

 B. R\, Gen., 310, n. 8. — Locandi Adans., Fam. Journ., v. 563 (Samadera). — Walp., Ann., i. 

 des Fl., ii. 149. — Wittmannia Vahl., Symb. 161 ; vii. 538 (Samadera). 



Bot., iii. 51, t. 60. — Nlota Lamk., III., t. 299. 5 Gen., 309, n. 4. 



— DC, PrvJ.r , u V.y±. — Siporeia Dur.-Tn., G Purple, handsome. 



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