504 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Drupes 1-4, seed and 

 embryo (exalbuminous) of Quassia (or Pierce net). — Bitter trees ; 

 leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles entire or largely serrate ; 

 flowers 1 in axillary elongated cymiferous spikes ; pedicels bracteolate, 

 articulate {Tropical and Subtropical Asia and Africa.'). 



98? Kir kia Oliv. 3 — "Flowers polygamous; calyx wide at base, 

 4-partite ; segments ovate. Petals 4, oblong-lanceolate, much longer 

 than calyx, finally patent ; margin involute. Stamens 4, alterni- 

 petalous, inserted round fleshy 4-agonal disk ; filaments filiform, 

 exappendiculate, glabrous ; anthers ovate-oblong muticous, 2-locular, 

 longitudinally rimose, dorsifixed slightly above base. Germen 

 (minute) deeply 4-lobed, 4-locular, glabrous ; styles distinct, very 

 short ; stigmas simple. Ovule solitary or (very occasionally 2 ?) 

 inserted at internal angle very minute. Fruit dry, oblong 4- 

 quetrous, finally separating into 4 cocci, linear-oblong, glabrous, 

 1-spermous, indehiscent, inciso-dentate above, entire or emarginate 

 at base, pendulous from central carpophorum ; epicarp thin ; en- 

 docarp coriaceous and subosseous, finally fibrous. Seeds exal- 

 buminous ; testa papyraceous ; cotyledons fleshy, linear-oblong, 

 complanate, emarginate at base, much longer than thick subacute 

 superior radicle. — A glabrous tree ; leaves usually fasciculate at 

 summit of branches, alternate multifoliolate exstipulate ; folioles 

 subopposite or alternate oblique lanceolate acuminate serrulate ; 

 flowers in cymose crowded pedunculate corymbs axillary to upper 

 leaves, constituting a wide leafy panicle ; pedicels equal to or shorter 

 than flowers" 4 {Region of the Zambesi 5 ). 



99. Eurycoma Jack. 6 — Flowers polygamous ; sepals 5, small, free 

 or connate at base, usually bearing glandular hairs. Petals 5, much 

 longer; margin induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous 

 (effete in female flower) ; filaments free, externally bearing 10 glands 

 alternating in pairs with stamens, stipate ; anthers short, often 



1 Small, insignificant, virescent, often out- 4 Char, all taken from Out. 



wardly pilose. 5 Species unknown to us. K. acuminata 



2 Spec. 5, 6. Koxb., Fl. Ind., i. 469. — Oliv., loc. cit. — Hook., Icon., t. 1036 (ex 

 Guerr., in Bull. Soc. Philom.,'m. 182. — Done., Oliv.). 



in Kouv. Ann. Mas., ii. t. 20.— Oliv., Fl. Trop. 6 Ex Roxb., Fl. Ind., ii. 307.— DC, Prodr., 



Afr., i. 309.— Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., Soppl., 209, ii. 86.— Endl., Gen., n. 5952.— 13. H., Gen., 



535. — Walp., Ann., i. 167. 312, n. 16. 



3 Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 310. 



