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merous ; male calyx imbricated, sometimes various cornered and 

 more or less angular from pressure more rarely very small subnil or 0. 

 Stamens usually 2, or more rarely 3-5, inserted round rudiment of 

 gynteceum minute (or 0) ; filaments free ; anthers introrse or 

 subintrorsc ; cells short adnate, usvially subglobose, longitu- 

 dinally rimose. Female flowers 2-5-merous. Germen sessile, 2-3- 

 locular ; style short, afterwards divided into 2, or 3 lobes 

 variously 2 -fid dUated revolute, inwardly decidedly lacinulate-papil- 

 lose, ovules in cells 2, collaterally descendent ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior and thickly obturated. Fruit usually thick finally partly 

 opening like a capsule ; cocci 2, 3, or by abortion, 1-2-spermous ; 

 seeds copiously albuminous ; radicle of straight embryo much thinner 

 than foliaccous cotyledons. — Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate entire or repando-dentate penninerved ; petiole sometimes 

 2 -glandular at apex ; flowers in densely imbricated-bracteate spikes ; 

 bracts 1-3 or more rarely co-flowered 2-bracteolate. (Trop. Asia 

 and Oceania.^) 



130? Cometia Dup.-Th." — Flowers (nearly of Aj)orosa) dioecious, 

 3-5-merous ; calyx imbricated, sometimes unequal in bud from com- 

 pression. Stamens 3-5 ; filaments inserted below erect rudiment of 

 gynseceum, dilated at apex ; anthers introrsely rimose, obtuse at 

 apex. Female calyx. . . . ? Germen excentric 1-locular ; style 

 from base dilated suborbieular excentric rather fleshy papillose- 

 stigmatiferous above. Ovules in cell 2, collaterally descendent; 

 micropyle extrorse superior thickly obtiu'ated. Fruit di'upaceous ; 

 endocarp hard ; mesocarp fleshy thick. Seed usually 1, exarUlate ; 

 cotyledons of copiously albuminous embryo foliaceous. — Small 

 glabrous trees ; leaves alternate petiolate entire penninerved ; male 

 flowers in amenta glomerate at the axils of the leaves ; bracts of 

 amentum crowded strictly imbricated, 1-3-flowered ; female flowers 

 few in terminal axillary racemes.^ {Malacassia.^) 



Endl. Gen. n. 1897.— Pi,, in Ami. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 4, ii. 265. — ScHNizL. Icon. fasc. 6. — H^ Bn. in 

 Bull. Sac. Hot. lie Ft: iv. (1857), mS.—Lepido- 

 stachi/s LiNDL. Nat. St/st. loc. cit. — Endl. Oeii. n. 

 1897. — TuL. in Atni. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 253.— 

 H. Bn. in Hull Soc. But. de Fr. iv. ^^i.— Tetrac- 

 tinostigma Hassk. Uort. Bag. od. nov. 55 ; in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. <lf Fr. \i. 714. 



' Spec, about 20.— Roxn. Fl. Lid. iii. 580 

 {JI>ius).~Th\v. Einim. PI. Zcijl. 288.— Wight 

 Icon. t. 361 (Sce;;o).— MiQ. Fl.-Ind. Bat. i. p. 

 ii. .fG2 ; Suppl. i71{Tttracti,iostig'na).—UAsSK. 

 Sort Bog. cd. nov. i. 59.— Benth. Fl, Bough. 



316. — M. Arc. in Liniiaa, xxxii. 78. — H. Bn. |} 



in Adansonia^ xi. 17. 



2 Ex H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 642.— M. Akg. Prodr. 

 444. 



^ A genua very nearly allied to Aporosa (of 

 which it would be better made a section), 

 differing especially by its 1-locular germen 

 (always P) i.e., in the same way as Hemicijclia 

 from Cyclostemon & Aiitidesma from Hieroiiyma, 

 also by its drupaceous and quite indehiscent 

 fruit. 



* Spec. 2, imperfectly known, H. Bn. in 

 Adansonia, ii. 55, 



