420 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Seeds in cells 1, 2, globose; testa crustacepus, often shortly arillate 

 at base; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo large transversely con- 

 duplicate. — Herbs frutescent at base ; branches slender abundant 

 scandent sulcate; leaves alternate, 2-ternate or decomposite; leaflets 

 crenate or serrate, sometimes pellucidly punctate or lineate ; flowers 

 in axillary sometimes corymbiform cymit'erous racemes ; peduncle 

 naked at base, 2-cirrose ; pedicels articulate. {All tropical regions}) 



59. Kcelreuteria Laxm." — Flowers polygamous irregular ; sepals 

 5, valvate. Petals 3, 4, alternate, unequal, unguiculate, fm-nished 

 within with a small 2-partite scale. Stamens 5-8, interior to u-re- 

 gular 3, 4-lobcd disk oblique among them ; filaments free declinate, 

 villose or glandulose; anthers introrse. Germen 3-locular; style 

 stigmatose at apex subintregal or 3-fid ; ovules in cell 2 ; one descen- 

 dent ; raphe dorsal ; the other ascendent ; raphe ventral. Fruit cap- 

 sular inflated submembranaceo-vesicular venose, loculicidally 3-locu- 

 lar, at base and apex 1-locular ; septa seminiferous within. Seeds 

 subglobose exarillate; testa crustaceous (blackish); cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo spirally convolute. — A tree often small; leaves 

 alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite and alternate membranous 

 dentate; flowers^ in full terminal ramosely cymiferous racemes. 

 [Northern China}) 



60. Stocksia Benth.^ — Flowers irregular polygamo-dioscious ; 

 sepals 5, cuncave, glandulose at margin, imbricate. Petals 4, short 

 unequal, villose within, glandulose at margins, imbricate. Sta- 

 mens 7, S, interior to unequal oblique tomentose disk; filaments vil- 

 lose at base ; anthers oblong exserted introrse, versatile. Germen 

 3-quetrous ; style incurved, stigmatiferous at apex simple acute ; 

 ovules in cell 2, subcollateral. Fruit . . . '? — A ramose rigid shrub ; 



' Spec, about 12, of which 3 are old world. Cambess. Mem. Miis. xviii. 33, t. i. fig. C. — 



H. B. K. Nav. Gai. et Spec. v. 99, t. 439.— A. S. Spach, Suit. A Bufoii, iii. 66.— Exi.l. Ge». n. 



H. /v. Bras. Ma: i. 349, t. 73.— Wall. PI. An. 6622.— Pavek, Orr/anoff. loo, t. 33.— Ac. Theor. 



JJar. i.t. 14.—BENTH.6'H/jj/i..Bo<.t. 6.— Wight. Si/st. t. 29.— H. Bx. Payer Fain. Nat. 318.— 



7co«. t. oOS.— Bl. Emnphia, iii. 183.— Gkiseb. B. H. Gen. 396, n. 15. 



Fl. Brit. W.-Ii.d. 122.— Bextu. 11. Hoiiyk. 4G ; ^ Yellow, showy. 



Fl. Austral, i. 453. — Thw. Enum. PI. Ztyl. 54. ■• Spec. 1, often cultivated. K. pauaculata 



— Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 945. — Tk. et Pl. Ann. Se. Laxm. loc. ci7.— Diham. Arbr. 6d. nouv. t. 36. 



Aa\ s6t. 4, xviii. 343.— Hakv. and Soxd. Fl. — Bl. Kumphia, iii. 181.— Bo?. Beg. iv. t. 330.— 



Cff/j. i. 237.— Bak. Fl. Trop. Afr.\.\\'i. — But. K. pautliuioidis Lheu. Serf. 18, t. i.9. — Sapii.dus 



Mag. t. 1049.— Walp. Bep. i. 411 ; ii. 813; v. chimnsis L. FIL. Suppt. 228. 



358; Ann. i. 207; vii. 620. ' Hook. Kew Jutirn. v. 304.— B. H. Oen. 397, 



- Nov. Comm. Petrop. xvi. 561, t. 18 (not n. 16. 

 Ukdw. nor. Mvuit.). — DC. Prodr. i. 616. — 



