332 NATUEAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



50. Anisomallon H. Bn.^ — Flowers (nearly of Jpodytes) herma- 

 phi'odite ; calyx short, 5-dentate. Petals 6, 3-angular thick, valvate ; 

 ribs inwardly laminiform vertical very prominent, free acute villulose 

 aboveauddividiugthepetalsinto2hollows, each nestling a cavity of the 

 anther. Stamens 5, altcrnipetalous ; tilaments subulate coadunate and 

 alternating with petals ; cells of introrse anthers distinct, pendulous 

 from connective, longitudinally rimose. Germen 1-locular, furnished 

 at base with uni-lateral disk ; ovules 2, collateral (of Mappia) ; style 

 subulate subexcentric. Fruit drupaceous ; sarcocarp thin ; finally 

 quite inverted subhorizontal, unequally 2-lobed subdidymous ; one 

 lobe remaining accrescent from drupe, the other from fleshy disk 

 adnate to apex of a true bacciform fruit ; albumen of subhorizontal 

 seed copious fleshy ; embryo minute apical. — A remarkable glabrous 

 tree ; leaves at extremities of twigs alternate petiolate oblong-elliptic 

 or obovate entire coriaceous thick delicately penninerved ; flowers ^ 

 in ramose pedunculate cymes subaxillary to uppermost leaves of 

 twigs, articulate at concave base. [Neiv Ckdedonia.^) 



5 1 . Pennantia Forst.^ — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; calyx very 

 small, dentate or annular, sometimes wanting. Petals 5, valvate. 

 Stamens 5 alternate ; filaments inserted under the small rudiment 

 of the gynaeceum, 2.plicate below apex, affixed to back of introrse 

 anthers. Disk minute or scarcely -visible. Germen 1-locular ; style 

 short, stigmatose to entire or radiate-3-lobed apex ; ovule 1, de- 

 scending ; microjjyle introrsely superior. A drupe ; putamen osseous 

 or coriaceous obliquely pervious at funicle a little below the apex ; 

 seed albuminous ; cotyledons of the very short siibapiculate embryo 

 ovate, a little wider at terete radicle.^ — Trees ; leaves alternate 

 entire or coarsely dentate ; flowers in terminal ramose-corymbiform 

 cymes. ( Oceania}) 



52. Leptaulus Benth." — Flowers hermapWodite ; calyx deej^ly 

 5-lobed, imbricate. Corolla gamopetalous ; long [Euleptaidus) or 

 more shortly [Brachyaulus) tubular ; lobes valvate, inflexed at apex, 



' Adaiisniiia, xi. 195. 'Spec. 3, of wliiclione is Australian, A. Kick. 



= For the order rather large. Fl. N.-Zel. 368.— Endl. Prodr. Fl. Noi-folk, 



^ Spec. 1. A. cluxi<cj\dium H. Bn. he. cit. 80; Icono</r. t. 121. — A. Cvnx. Ann. Nat. Ei4. 



■• Char. Ocii. 133, t. 67. — J. Gen. 428.— iii. 248.— Keiss. Liniitea, xvi. t. 12, 13.— Hook. 



Lamk. III. t. 854.— roru. Diet. v. 152.— Endl. v. Fl. N.-Zel. i. 34, t. 12 ; Man. N.-Zcal. Fl. 41, 



Gen. n. 5754. — JMieks, ^h;;. .Va^ Six', eer. 2, 720. — Bentii. H. Austral, i. 395. — Walp. 



ix. 490; Contrib.i.'lZ, t. 11, 12.— B. H. Gt». 4),h. i. 568. 



351, n. 21.— H. B.v. Adansonia, iii. 86, 379; <^ Oen. 351, ii. 19.— H. Bx. Adaiisoma, iii. 



X. 2 fiO. 374 ; X. 2C4. 



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