POLrOAn.iCE/E. 'il 



late, furnished with long hairs; embryo albuminous; eotylcdons 

 orbiculate thin. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate ovate ; flowers ^ in short 

 axillary few-flowcrcd racemes. {Trap. W. /IJ'rieur) 



9. Trigoiiiastrum Miq.^ — " Sepals o, of which two are slightly 

 wider. Petals dissimilar ; the lateral narrowly ungniculate-spathu- 

 late ; keel navicular,*^ gibbous saccate at base ; 2 at base extrorsely 

 auriculate-seniicordate, higher connate at margin, and concealing 

 generative organs. Stamens 5, coalescing in sheath, which is 

 afterwards cut; anthers ellipsoidal, 1-locular, introrsely adnate. 

 Glands (?)-^ 2, subrotund-lenticular anterior in the neighbourhood of 

 thegermen, strictly enclosed in saccate base of keel. Germ en o-locular; 

 style sim^ilc ; stigma small ; ovules in cell solitary pendulous from 

 vertex. Fruit dry, 3-winged, in 3 carpels, samavoici, finally 

 deshiscing iuM'ardlj^, separating. Seed solitary in cell, pendulous 

 hairy estrophiolate. . . — A shrub '' ; leaves alternate, coriaceous, 

 entire ; racemes at apex of branches paniculate; bracts glandular ' " 

 {Suriuiira, Peiuni^.^) 



II. XAXTHOPHYLLE.E. 



10. Xanthophyllum Roxb. — Flowers irregular hermaphrodite ; 

 sepals 0, imbricate ; the interior slightly larger. Petals 5, irec or 

 connate at base, imbricate ; the posterior 4, rarely unequal ; the 

 anterior (keel) larger cymbiform. Stamens 8, either all free or 

 cohering in pairs with petals at the base ; anthers introrse 2-locular, 

 shortly rimose at apex. Germcn surrounded at base with annular 

 glandular disk, 1-loculate ; placentas 2, parietal, laterally more or less 

 prominent ; ovules in each 2-6, descendent or variously oblique ; 

 style incurved, stigmatiferous sub-entire at apex. Fruit globose, 

 coriaceous-fleshy, usually 1-spermous; seed exarillate, exalbuiniuous ; 

 embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick-fleshy, i)lano-convex, at apex some- 

 times corrugate-plicate ; radicle short, sub-enclosed between coty- 



' AVhitc or yellow. s " Corpuscula 2 " (1!. II.). 



2 Spec. 2, Benth. Xif/ii; 224.— Oliv. Fl. « Scand(;ns i* 



Trop. Afi: i. 135.— Walp. Rep. i. 2i" (Spec. < Char, ox B. H !-,c cU. 



3, -1). 8. Spec. 1. T. litjpnh HcuM Mia. loq. cil. — 



^ Ft. /«^/.-/;i(/. Sup])], i. 391.— 1!. II. Gin. Mtum.f.F/.JIii'.Iiid.i.'lO^.—JsojjUrispeMiii- 



139, n. 10. — l.sopti'iis W.KLL. Cal. n. 7201. i/uidii W.\i,i.. I.e. cit. 



* "Postica:-" (B.U.). 



