502 NATUnAL IlfsTOlir OF PLANTS. 



campanulatc or urccolate (corolliform) stamiual tube. Germcn 

 depressed ; cells 2-5, 1-2-ovulate ; style elongate conical, 3-4-goual 

 or very short and afterwards very discoidally dilated. Fruit capsular 

 coriaceous, loculicidally o-4-valvate ; valves septiferous in middle ; 

 seeds arillate ; ' cotyledons of fle-shy embryo often thick conferrumi- 

 nate ; radicle short superior. — Trees ; innovations sometimes lepi- 

 dote ; leaves imparii^innate ; flowers axillary ; male compound race- 

 mose ; female ^ simply or sparsely ramose, racemose or spicate.^ 

 [Trojncal ami suhtrojncal Asia and Oceania.*) 



20. Epicharis Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Guarea) oftener 4-5- 

 merous; calyx cupular subeutire, dentate or lissus, sometimes lobate 

 or partite, valvate [Euepicliuris) or oftener imbricate [Di/soxi/lumS') 

 Petals free or sometimes at base inwardly connate with each other 

 or oftener with staminal tube or coherent {Hartighsea,"') valvate or 

 more or less imbricate. Stamens 8-10; anthers enclosed in toji of 

 subentire or oftener crcnatc, dentate or sometimes lobate tube, 2- 

 rimose. Disk tubular, oftener thick, subentire, crenate or dentate 

 sheathing the germen and base of style. Germen 2-5-loGular ; cells 

 1-2-ovulate ; style erect ; apex stigmatose variously dilated oftener 

 discoid or depressed polygonal. Fruit subglobular or ovoid or piri- 

 form, woody or coriaceous or partly fleshy, indehiscent or capsular, 

 loculicidally 2-5-valvate ; seeds more or less fully arillate j coty- 

 ledons of exalbuminous fleshy embryo thick plano-convex, collateral 

 or superposed ; radicle short superior or ventral. — Glabrous or more 

 rarely pubescent trees;® leaves pari- or impari-pinnate alternate, 

 often collected at top of twigs ; leaflets opposite or alternate, oftener 

 petiolulate ; flowers ^ in simple or more or less ramose cymiferous 

 racemes or spikes, axillary or lateral, sometimes springing from 



mixis Bl. Bijdr. 165. — A. Juss. Meliac. 71, t. 3. ' Bij'di: 166.— A. Jfss. Mcliac. 76, t. 4. — 



— Sphmrofacmc Wall. Cat. (part.). — Nimmoia Endl. Gen. u. 5533. — B. II. Oen. 333, n. 11 



Wight, Calc. Jourii. of Nat. Hist, vii. 13. — ? (incl. : Cambania Rcem. Didi/mocheton Bl. Dy- 



MoHO.iomn GlilFF. Notul. iv. 502. — OraomaTvRCZ. snxijlum'&h. Ooiducheton Bl. Kartighsea h.. Ju8S, 



in Bidl. Mosc. (1858), i. 411. Prasoxi/lon KcEM.). 



' Aril red. « Bl. liijdr. 172.— Spaoh, Suit, a Buffnn, iii. 



" Larger. 1S6. — A. Juss. Meliac. 76, t. 4. — Endl. Oeii.n, 



' A genus distinguiahed from Aijluia (of 5529. — B. H. Gen. 332, n. 1. — Didymochelon Bl. 



which, with Lansutm, perhaps it ia merely a loc. cit. \77 . — GoniochetonBL.loc.cit. — Prasoxylon 



section) by the number of its parts and the dc- K(em. Si/nops. 83. 



hiscence of its fruit. ' A. Juss. Meliac. 75, t. 4. — Spacii, Sail, a 



■• Spec. 8-10. WioiiTandAitv. 7Vi«;/-. i. 110. Bnffm, iii. 188.— Endl. fffw. n. 5532.— Kukz. 



— Thw. Emm. PL /.eyl. 60.— Bentu. Fl. Am- Flvra (1870), 310. — Ca;«ia«i(i Kcem. he. cit. 83. 



tial. i. 3S3. — Jtia. Fl. Iinl.-Bat. i. p. ii. 535; — Miierochilon Bl. BiJdr. 172. 



Suppl. i. 106. — Walt. Jujk i. 128 ; Ann. vii. ^ Odour sometimes fetid, alliaceous. 



550. ^ Wliite or more rarely pink. 



