TER E DINT HA OEM. 329 



otherwise inserted on the branches of the axillary or lateral raceme. 

 Trop. America}). 



44. Emmotum Desvx.^ — Flowers nearly oi Poraquciba {m Mappia), 

 usually o-merous ; perianth and stamens of Poraquciba ; connective of 

 erect lanceolate anthers rather wide. Germen 3-locular; cells 1- 

 lateral subparallel ; ovules descendent (of Mappia)., 2 in each cell 

 or in the middle cell 2, in the lateral 1 ; style short or rather long 

 stigmatiferous at apex truncate or dilated. Drupe usually subglobose ; 

 putamen osseous, 1-3-locular ; seed (in each cell iisually 1) albumi- 

 nous ; cotyledons of curved embryo foliaceous rather short ; radicle 

 longer. — Glabrous or oftener tomentellose or silky or shining trees ; 

 leaves alternate entire coriaceous penninerved elevate-nerved ; 

 flowers collected in cymes or densely ramified contracted glomerules 

 axillary or lateral to axils. {Trop. America?) 



45. Lasianthera Pal. Beauv.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous (nearly of Mappici) ; calyx short cupular ; shortly 5- 

 lobed or dentate, imbricated. Petals 5 , valvate. Stamens 5, 

 alternipctalous ; filaments hypogynous, more or less cohering with 

 petals, attenuate at apex, or oftener the apex introrsely excavate 

 and receiving more or less pendulous anther cells, either glabrous or 

 shortly pilose ( Gompliandra) ^ or very long peucillate ; haii'S 

 crowded long and often capitellate, in estivation inflexed above 

 anther {Etdasianthera); cells of introrse anthers longitudinally 

 rimose, either nearly quite adnate within to connective or free below. 

 Germen free 1-locular, naked at base or sometimes furnished with 

 a large basilar gland ; style apical short, afterwards stigmatiferous 

 dilated sometimes wide discoidal ; ovules collateral 2, (of Mappici). 

 Drupe oblong or compressed, longitudinally sulcate and nerved, 

 straight or incurved ; flesh usually scanty ; putamen crustaceous 

 ligneous or fibrous ; albumen of descendent seed fleshy, undivided or 2- 

 partite ; ^ erabyro apical minute. — Trees, often glabrous ; leaves alter- 



' Spec. 2, 3. SriiENo. Sys<. i. 583 (Ban-o-in). i. 036.— Endl. Geii. n. 4671.— B. H. Out. 350, 



Walp. Anil. vii. 568. n. 16. — H. Bx. Ac/a>i.<ioni<i, xi. 191. — Stemoimriis 



2 Ham. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ. 29.— Miers Bl. 5yrfc. 648.— Endl. Gwj. n. 5496.— Mieus, 



Ann. Kat. Hist. ser. 3, iv. 366 ; Contrib. i. lOG, Contnli. i. 80, t. lS-15.— Ui-andrii Thw. Jlovk. 



229, t. 21, 22. — B. H. Oct. 352, n. 25.— H. Bn. KcwJourn. vii. 'l\\. — MalKsanthera Seem. 



Adaiisonia, ii. t. 9, fig. 3,4; iii. 94, 380.— Juimi. of Jiol. ii. 71- 



Pogopetalum Bentu. Trans, Linn, Soc. -xviii. 5 Wall. ex. Lindl. Ifiil. Si/^i. cd. 2, 439. — 



684, 12 . Endl. Gen. n. 549?.- B. II. Gen. n. 17. 



' Spec, about 5. Walp. Ann. vii. 568. 6 Whence simulating 2 wide cotyledons. 



< Fl. Owai: ct Ben. i. 85, t. 51. — DC. P.odi: 



2 t; 



