4'^0 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



2-rimose. Germen subccntric, 4-5-lociilar ; cells oppositipetalous, 

 1-OYulate ; style elongate curTecl, at apex stigmatose more or less 

 obpyramidal ; micropyle of ascendent siib-basilar ovule extrorsely 

 inferior.! Capsule coriaceous or ligneous, loculicidally 4-5-valvate; 

 valves in the middle septiferous within; embryo albuminous straight; 

 radicle inferior. Seeds aril] ate. — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets entire or serrulate ; stipules intra-petiolate 

 ^-nate, connate at base ; flowers in simple terminal or lateral racemes, 

 {Tropical and Southern Africa.'^) 



71. Greyia nooK. and Harv.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, 

 orbieulate, imbricate persistent. Petals 5, perigynous, imbricate, 

 deciduous. Disk cupular crowned with 10 staminodes glandulifcrous 

 at apex. Stamens 10, inserted within the disk; filaments flliform 

 subdecliaate far exserted ; anthers ovate, 2-dymous. Germen oblong 

 deeply 5-sulcate, from the placentiferous introflexed margins of the 

 carpels semi-5-locular, attenuated to a slender style slightly stigma- 

 tose at apex; ovules oo, 2-seriate in parietal placentas. Capsule 

 membranous, septicidally folliculately 5-partite. Seeds cc, minute ; 

 testa membranous ; embryo at base of fleshy albumen minute." — 

 Small trees ; wood soft ; leaves '^ alternate petiolate exstipulate cor- 

 dately subrotuud du^jlicately crcnatc or sublobate glabrous glandu- 

 lose; "flowers^ in dense axillary racemes." [South Africa.^) 



VII? AITONIE^. 



72. Aitonia L. f. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular, 4-merous ; 

 sepals connate at base, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4, alternate, 

 much longer ; in prsefloration imbricate or oftener tortuous. Stamens 

 S, inserted under small crenate disk ; filaments at base 1-adelphous 

 connate in a tvibe, afterwards free exserted filiformly subulate ; 

 anthers oblong introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free, sub-4-lobate ; style 



1 Funicle short erect, somctimea (at least in 3 J'yoc. Dnl/l. I'hiv. Zool. mid Sot. Ass, i. 138, 



1 species) more or loss dilated, hence closing the t. 13, 14. 

 mycropyle. ■* Somewhat recalling those of Frmicoo. 



- Spec. 4. A. Kicir. Fl. Ahi/ss. Tint. i. 107, t. ° Scarlet showy. 



26.— 1'l. Niger, 252, t. 29 (jVn(ff?/«).— Hakv. i^ Sfcc. 1. O. Suilurlatdi Hcck. and IIakv. 



and.Soxi). Fl. Cap.i. 3f)9 (Xntalin). —Bak-em, —Uakv. Thes. Cup. t. 1; //. Cap. ii. 308. — 



Fl. Trap. Aj'r. i. i'i'.i. AValt. Jim. vii. 911 {Sa.iijinr/.). 



