4»8 NATURAL HI STORY OF PLANTS. 



heynea)^ 2-valvate, 1- or more rarely 2-sperraous ; testa of arillate 

 seed crustaceons ; cotyledons of exalbiiminous fleshy embryo plano- 

 convex; radicle .short superior. — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate 

 pinnate or 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets opposite or alternate ( Walsiira) ; 

 flowers in axillary and terminal very ramose pedunculate sometimes 

 corymbiform racemes.' [Tropical Asia.-) 



10. Ekebergia Spaerm.^ — Flowers (nearly of Trichilia) herma- 

 phrodite or polygamo-dia3ceous ; calyx short, imbricate, 5-fid. 

 Petals 5, longer, imbricate, or rarely valvate. Stamens 10, 1- 

 adelphous ; tube campanulate, 1 0- dentate ; teeth each antheriferous ; 

 anthers introrse exsertcd. Gormen surrounded by annular disk, 

 2-5-locular ; style short, clavate or subturbinate to stigmatose apex 

 or disciform, indistinctly 2-5-lobed ; ovules in cells 2, superposed 

 descendent. Fruit baccate coriaceous indehiscent; cells 1-5, 1- 

 spormous; embryo of exarillate seed thick fleshy. — Trees; leaves 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; flowers in axillary ramosely com- 

 pound cymiferous racemes.* [Tropical and South Africa J") 



11. Beddomea Hook, f.'' — " Calyx 5-partite; lobes broad ovate, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, thick orbiculate, the interior smaller, imbricate. 

 Staminal tube short ; margin slightly crenulate. Anthers 8, thick, 

 sessile to apex of tube exscrted connivent, 3-angular acute ; connec- 

 tive very thick ; cells marginal narrow, finally confluent at apex. 

 Germen conical shortly hirsute, immersed in inconspicuous tomen- 

 tose disk, 3-locular ; style short thick ; stigmatically 3-lobed pyra- 

 midal ; ovules in cells 2, collateral pendulous. Fruit...? — A sub- 

 scandent slumb ; twigs terete ; in the recent ones, panicles and 

 petioles somewhat tomentose with reddish pubescence ; leaves im- 

 paripinnate ; rachis terete ; leaflets opposite, 1-2-paired petiolate 

 ovately or elliptically oblong very entire; panicles axillary few- 

 flowered.^ " [Ncihjlicrry mountains.^) 



12 ? Hearnia F. Muell,^ — " Sepals 5, unequal, imbricate. Petals 



1 Very near Trichilia. * Spec. 4, 5. Fresen. in Mus. Scnk. ii. 278 



- Spec. 8, 9. Wight, II'. t. 55 {TJ'ahiira)— [T, ■ i chi Ha). —Ux-rw. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 247. 



Thw. Mitiim. n. Zeijl. 61.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. — GuiLL. et Perr. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 1?6, t. 31. 



i. p. ii. 642 ; Suppl. i. 505.— H. Bn. in Atlnn- — Olit. Fl. Trnp. Afr. i. 332.— A. Rich. PI. 



sonici, xi. 265. — Walp. Sep. i. 431 {IJ'nlsnni), Abyss. Tent. i. 105, t. 24.^H. Bn. Ailansonia, 



432; Ann. iv. 389 [WaUnra). xi. 263.— Walp. Hep. i. 431 ; Ann. ii. 227. 



3 Act. Holm. (1779), 282, t. 9.- J. Gen. 265. « Gen. 336, n. 24. 



— Lamk. Diet. ii. 316 ; Suppl. ii. 543 ; III. t. ? " Flowers rather large pedicillate ; calyx 



358. — DC. Prodr. i. 623. — Spach, Suit, ii fernigineonstomcntose;petalsglabrous." (Hook. 



Buffon, iii. 191. — A. Ji'ss. Melitic. 81, t. 6. — f. by whom the characters are selected.) 



Eni>i,. Gen. n. 5538.— B. H. Gen. 335, n. 21. ^ Spec. 1. B. Iwlica Hook. f. loc. cif. 



■* Very near 7V/>//i7/ff .■ it (lifters principally in '> Frcirim. v, 55. — E. II. Gen. 994, n. 24 c. 

 its baccate fruit and exarillate seeds. 



