TEREBINTH ACE^. 335 



Villaresia) ; sepals 5, unequal, closely imbricated, decurrent-glan- 

 dulose below. Petals 5, longer tliau calyx, free, imbricated, inflexed 

 at apex and coalescing into a corolla spiuiously gamopetalous and 

 calyptrate cut. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments hypogynous 

 free subulate ; cells of introrse anthers 2, free obliquely de- 

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

 attenuated at apex into an arched style inwardly sulcate ; summit of 

 style uuequally-capitellate stigmatiferous<; ovules 2, collateral ; back 

 of germen vertically produced between the ovules into a narrow 

 spurious septum. Fruit drupaceous oblong-ovoid, stipate with non- 

 accrescent persistent calyx ; placenta intruded within ; seed hence 

 inwardly deeply sulcate ; albumen fleshy copious ; embryo minute 

 apical. — A humble or scandent glabrous shrub ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, penninerved veined coriaceous ; flowers in terminal elon- 

 gated simple or scantily ramified cymiferous racemes ; cymes pedun- 

 culate scorpoid.i [N. Caledonia.-) 



58. Cassinopsis Sond.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; lobes of gamo- 

 phyllous calyx more or less deep, imbricated. Petals 5, at base sub- 

 cohering together and with the stamens, free, imbricated, finally 

 reflexed-patulous at ajjex. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments 

 hypogynously inserted ; anthers subovate, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen 1-locular, 2-ovulatc, attenuated into a short conical style sub- 

 obliquely capitellate-stigmatifcrous at apex. Fruit drupaceous shortly 

 ovoid compressed apiculate ; putamen crustaceous ; embryo of albumi- 

 nous seed apical minute. — Glabrous shrubs ; * twigs slender, some- 

 times armed with thin axillary spines ; leaves opposite, entire or 

 serrate, glabrous ; fiowcrs in 2 -parous axillary and pedunculate 

 cymes. {^Madugascar^ South Africa?) 



59. GrisoUea II. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 5-partite, 

 valvate; folioles not quite contiguous. Petals 0. Stamens 5, opposite 

 sepals ; filaments short glabrous inserted under the conical rudiment 

 of the gyuajceum subglandulous at the base hollow laciniate fimbriate 



' A gonus closely allied to rfYfeccs/ff (of which known, often enumerated among the ///««( as. 



perhaps it would be better considered a section) ' Spec. 2, of which one is Cape. Hochst. 



valde aUine. Kraims Jkrti: 42 {Uurtrujia). — Ti'iicz. Hull. 



'•' Spec. 1. S. saymeiitostim II. Bx. loc. cit. Mosc. (18.58), 455 {Ca-ixine). — II. Bn. Ailaiisniiia, 



' Fl. Cap. 1, 47a. — B. U. Oiii. 354, xi. ISO, n. 83.— W alp. Ann, rii. 5G9. 



n. 30. " Adaiisoiiiii, iv. 211, t. 3, 4 ; x. 266.— B. 11, 



* Habit of Cdaslracea, A genus imperfectly Gen. 997, n. 30 a. 



