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17. Lecaniodiscus Pl\ — Flowers polygamo-dioecious apeta- 

 lous ; lobes of sacciform gamophyllous calyx 5, subequal rotund, 

 imbricated, finally refloxed. Disk shortly cupiilar adnate to perianth 

 regular, obscurely lO-crenate sulcato -within. Stamens 10, or more 

 rarely 9 ; filaments hypogynou sly inserted interior to disk free slender 

 far exserted ; anthers basifixed elongated (effete in female flower ?) 

 introrse, 2-rimosc. Germen free central sessile ovoid, 3-locular, 

 attenuated to short style, rcflexed at thickly 3-lobed stigmatiferoTi s 

 a]5ex ; ovules in cells 1 , ascendent from internal angle ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior obturated. Fruit subdrupaceous ovoid, out- 

 wardly tomentose, acute at apex ; mesocarp finally dry ; put amen 

 1 -sperm ous ; seeds subereet, enclosed in copious basilar aril ; testa 

 crustaceous nitid ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo confer- 

 ruminate. — A small tree ; twigs and petioles pubescent ; leaves 

 alternate pinnate ; folioles subopposite entire ; flowers ^ in racemes 

 simple or ramified at base. (Trap. West Africa.^) 



18 ? Jagera Bl.* — Flowers polygamoiis regular (nearly of C/r/jnnin) 

 sepals 3-5, imbricated. Petals same in number alternate, enlarged in- 

 wardly with cucullate scales. Stamens 8, interior to annular disk, 

 rather villoso or pubescent. Germen turbinate 3-4-agonal, 3-4- 

 locular ; style short, stigmatifcrous at apex, rather obtuse 3, 4-sid- 

 cate ; ovule ascendent {o? Ou/jrmm). " Fruit baccate liirsute; cells 

 3, 4, stupose at bottom, I -spermous ; seeds oxarillate ; embryo 

 curved.^ " — Trees ; leaflets alternate, abruptlypinnate ; leaflets serrate 

 alternate and opposite ; flowers in axillary and terminal ramified 

 compound-cymiferous racemes. (Troj). Asia, Oceania, MalaccaS') 



19 Lepisanthes Bl. '' — Flowers regular (nearly of Ciipania). 4—5- 

 merous ; sepals and petals squamiferous within imbricated ; scales 

 cucullate or 2-lobed, sometimes furnished with -Z-lobed or lacerate 

 crest {Scorodendron^). Stamens 8-10, interior to complete annular disk ; 

 anthers included or exserted. Germen central, 2-3docular. Fruit 



' Hook. Niijer, 251.— B. II. Gen. 403, n. 33. fig. 2.— Roxi). Fl. hid. ii. 284 (««/««*«).— DC. 



- " Greenish purplo, odorous." Prodr. ii. 81, n. 2 {Garuga). Dei.hss. Ic. Si I. 



^ Spec. -1 vel. 2. Baker, Fl. Tmp. Afr. 1, iii. 35, t. 67 {Oanujn). 



428. 'I lUjdr. 238; Rumphia, iii. ISO (p.irt.) — 



■• RumphUi, iii, 1.55.— B. II. Qen. 403, n. Camhess. TUtm. Miis. xviii. 25.— Endl. Gm. 



39. n, 5009.- B. II. Oci. 403, n. 38. 



' Other charactors nearly of Ncplnliiim. A " Bl. Jiuiiiphia, iii. 149. — B. H. Gen. 403, n. 



very doubtful genus. 37. 



^ Spec. 2, 3. RuMPU. Herb. Amhuin. i. t. 53, 



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