194 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



late integerrimous, coriaceous, pcnmnerved ; flowers female, axillary 

 solitary verticillate pedunculate.^ {Neiv Caledonia?) 



32. Fontainea Heck.^ — Flowers dioecious or more rarely monoe- 

 cious (nearly of Codiaum or Jlj^handia); calyx gamophyllous sacciform 

 very shortly 4-5-dentate at apex, valvate, sometimes unequally 

 broken. Petals * 3, 6, imbricate. Stamens co , central (of Codiaum)^ 

 exterior of base surrounded by continuous 4-6-agonal disk ; anthers 

 oxtrorsely rimose ; cells adnate to linear connective or more or less 

 high discrete at apex. Calyx of female flowers valvate, unequally 

 broken. Petals as in male flower. Disk hypogynous continuous 

 surrounding base of gynteceum ; germen 3-6-locular ; cells (when 

 equal in number) oppositipetalous ; style afterwards divided into 

 branches, same in number, rather thick, stigmatiferoiis within ; ovules 

 solitar}' ; micropyle obtectcd by short obtm-ator. Fruit drupaceous, 

 suboliviform or obtiise angular ; putamen osseous ; cells 2-6 ; , 1 (or 

 rarely 2, 3), usually fertile, others small effete. Seeds exarillate gla- 

 brous ; albumen copious oily ; cotyledons of central embryo foliaceous 

 elliptical many times wider than terete radicle. — A shrub or tree, small 

 leaves alternate or subopposito, petiolate, ex stipulate, glaberrimous ; 

 entu'e peuninerved reticulate-veined ; flowers axillary and terminal 

 falsely racemose, more or less cymose bracteate. {Netv Caledonia.^) 



33. Givotia Griff.'' — Flowers (nearly of Codiaum) dioecious; sepals 

 5 and petals same in number alternate, imbricated. Stamens co 

 (sometimes l.j-20), inserted round convex glandular-thickened re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments erect ; anthers adnate, introrsely and extrorsely 

 rimose. Perianth and disk of female flowers as in the male. Ger- 

 men 2, 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate ; stylo afterwards 2-3-fld; branches 

 2-fid. Fruit fleshy indchiscent destitute of columella, by abortion 1- 

 sjicrinous ; seed exarillate copiously albuminous ; cotyledons of 

 wide embryo foliaceous, digitinerved at base — A tree ; ^ densely 

 coA'ered with stellate indumentum ; leaves alternate petiolate digiti- 



' A genus whose place is uncertain, the * Spec. 1. J^. Pancheri Heck. loc. cit. — 



male flowers being unknown, but probably Biiln///iia? Pancheri H. Bn. in Adansonia, ii. 



near Cmficriini, differs by its apetalous eglandular 214. — Codiaum ? Pancheri M. Arc. Prodr. 1117. 



flowers and verticillate leaves. « PI. JI„rf. Ca/ciilt. 14.— Enijl. Gcii. n. o802 



5 Spec. 2. H. Bn. loc. cit. 88. (Suppl. v. 89).— H. Bn. Enphorb. 389.— M. Aro. 



3 And upon Fontainea (thes. Fac. Med. de Prodr. 1112.— Ooraiiia Wall. Cat. n. 7861. 



Montpoll. 1870). — II. Bn. in Adaiiso-nia, xi. 80. 7 Aspect of Echinus Sumbacia, scarcely differ- 



* Thick subcoriaceous, silky on both sides, ing by non-capsular fruit, 

 white, very fragrant. 



