500 NATVRAL IIlSTOIlY OF PL.IXTS. 



enclosed ina tube 10-fid above, introrsely 2-rimose.' Gerinen clothed 

 at attenuated and shortly obconical base with glandulous disk," 1-2- 

 locular ; style erect cylindrical, apex stigmatose depressed capitate ; 

 ovules in cells 2, subsuperposcd. Fruit globular stipitate baccate, 

 1-sporraous ; " hiluin of peltate seed ventral." — Trees ; leaves 

 abruptly pinnate,^ leaflets opposite petiolulate, unequal at base ; 

 the uppermost sometimes least ; flowers in full very ramosely com- 

 pound nicemes. {Borneo, Mamlla^) 



15. Turrseanthus H. Bn.^ — Flowers nearly of Dasycolcum, 

 4-5-merous ; calyx short cupular dentate. Petals coriaceous 

 connate with each other in clavate tube and below with staminal tube, 

 at apex fi-ce valvate. Stamens 8-10 ; anthers euclosed at top of 

 unequally lobcd or crenate tube. Disk 0. Germen 1-locular ; style 

 erect, apex depressed capitate discoid stigmatose ; placentse parietal 

 septiform 4, 5, more or less prominent, 2-ovulate. Ovules subor- 

 thotropal or presenting a very short descendent ventral raphe ; 

 micropyle ascendent extrorsely superior. Fruit . . . ? — Glabrous 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate or 3-foliolate ; leaflet termi- 

 nal articulate ; lateral alternate ; flowers in small racemiform or 

 corymbiform cymes, axillary or springing laterally from the wood, 

 sometimes nmiotely alternate in slender axillary twig, articulate, 

 bracteate. [Tropical wcfitcrn Africa.^) 



IG. Synoum A. Juss.'^' — Flowers 4-merou3 ; calyx gamophyllous ' 

 lacinise rotund or acute, imbricate. Petals 4, longer coriaceous, con- 

 torted or imbricate. Stamens 8 ; anthers inserted at crenulate mouth 

 of short and broad cylindrical tube semi-exscrted, iutrorse, 2 rimose. 

 Germen depressed ovoid, seated upon a very short disk (?), hirsiite, 

 produced to straight style widely discoid at stigmatose apex ; cells 3, 

 2-ovulate ; ovules in pairs descendent ; hilum far adnate to placenta ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior; or finally variously oblique. Capsule 

 globular siib-o-lobed, subfleshy, finally loculicidal ; valves 3, in 

 the middle internally septiferous ; seeds furnished above with a fleshy 

 layer (aril). — A small glabrous tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite sessile lanceolate ; flowers in spurious short axillary 

 cymiferous sparsely ramose racemes. [Subtropical Australia.^) 



' Pollen in superposed cateniform masses. ' Spoe. 2. 



'^ Now nearly obsolete. 1 Mcliac. 74, t. 4. — Endl. Gen. n. 5532. — 



•' Innovalions and inflorcsccnco suLsericcous B. H. Gcb. 335, n. IS. — Schoutensia'EjiDi^. Piorlr. 



greyish pubescent. Ft. Xor/ulk; 79, not. 



■* Spec. 2. li. Tjs. A-fiiiifuiiid, \i.2iilS. • Spec. 1. 'S'. glaiidiilosinn A. Jvss. he. cit. 

 * Adaiitoitia, xi. 261. 



