494 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen 5-locular or more ravelj (Malkastrum''-) few or 1-locnlar; 

 style erect, subclavate to apex ; top of apex shortly lobate stigmatose ; 

 ovules in cells 2, desceudent ; raicropyle extrorsely superior. Drupe 

 oftener but slightly fleshy ; jiyi-eufe 1-5, subeartilaginous, 1-2-sper- 

 mous. Seeds subaugular ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo oblong ; radicle superior. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate ; imparipinnate or 3-foliolate ; leaflets opposite entire or 

 coarsely serrate ; the terminal larger ; flowers in more or less ramose 

 cymes axillary or lateral to uppermost branches. ( Tropical Asia and 

 Oceania,^ Malacca?^ 



3. Munronia Wight.* — Flowers 5-merous ; sepals subfoliaceous 

 rather large, persistent, imbricate. Petals adnate to each other and 

 to staminal tube infundibuliform to middle, free above, patent. 

 Stamens 10; tube cylindrical, free above, 10-dentate at apex; 

 anthers alternate with teeth of tube, silky appendiculate, introrsely 

 rimose. Disk membranous-tubvilose, sheathing the germen and base 

 of style. Germen ovoid ; style elongate slender, stigmatose capitellate 

 at apex. Ovules 2 in each of 5 oppositipetalous cells, suj)erposed 

 dcscendent ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Caissnle depressed 

 globose subcoriaceous loculicidal ; lobes and cells 5 ; valves solute 

 from 5-alate columella. Seeds in cells 1, 2, plano-convex ; hilum 

 ventral depressed ; margins inciurved alate ; cotyledons of slightly 

 albuminous embryo plane rotundate ; radicle short. — Small under- 

 shrubs ; stork short simple ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate or 3 - 

 foliolate ; leaflets opposite, entire • or dentate ; flowers ^ in axillary 

 few-flowered often subcapitate cymes; pedicels 2-bracteolate. 

 [Eastern India, Indian Archipelago.^) 



4. Naregamia Wight and Aen.^ — Flowers nearly of Munronia', 

 calyx cupular, 5-fid, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, free elon- 

 gate, imbricate or contorted. Stamens 5 ; tube cylindrical, free 

 from petals, inflato-clavate to apex, 5-dentate at summit ; each 



' H. Bn. Adamonia, xi. 256 (Malagash ' Spec. 3, 4. Wall. P^.^s. iZar. t. lit) (Tar- 



Bpecies). rain). — Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1413 {Tar>-(f:i). — 



2 Spec, about 4. Roth, iVbu. Syjfc. 218 (^/<•««). Benn. PZ./an. iJ«r. 176, 180, t. 38 ; A„n. Sc. 



— RoxB. Cb(. a. Juss. loc. cit. [ETcebergia).— A^ai. ser 2, xv. 83.— Lem. /o'-rf. f Z«o-. iv. t. 360. 



Wight and AuN. Prerfr.i. 118 (!/«//(«).— Mia. —Hassk. Tijilsc>ii: Nat. Gesch. x. 138; Cctl. 



Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 533.— KuRZ, Flm-a (1870) Hort. Bog. 219.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



340 {Mallea).—yfkhv. Jtep. i. 428 [Mallea). 534.— Thw. Fniim. Bl. Zetjl. 69.— H. Bn. 



' H. Bk. Admuonia, xi. 255. Mansonia, xi. 266.— Walp. Bep. i. 426 ; Ann. 



' III. i. 147, t. 54 ; Icon. t. 90.— Endl. Gen. Iv. 386. 



n. 55I8I.— B. II. Gci. 331, n. 6. ' P''odi: 110.— Endl. Gen. n. 5518.— B. H. 



' White ; corolla deciduous. Oeii. 331, n. 5. 



