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rather thick. Germ en immersed in base of disk, attenuated to a 

 capitate style with stigmatic apex ; cells 2, incomplete alterni- 

 petalous. Ovules in each cell 2, ascending; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit capsular oblong, loculicidally 2-valvate, tardily 

 dehiscent. Seeds oblong, enclosed in membranous multifid aril ; ^ 

 albumen fleshy; cotyledons of straight embryo^ oblong. — A glabrous 

 under-shrub ; leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, minutely stipu- 

 • late, entire or serrate ; flowers in axillary cymes.^ {North-western 

 mountainous America,^) 



3. Catha Foesk.^ — Flowers nearly of Euonymus^ 5-merous ; 

 receptacle shortly concave. Calyx short 5-lobed, imbricate. Petals 

 5, longer erect, imbricate, finally opening at apex. Stamens 5, alter- 

 nipetalous, exterior to cupular disk ; filaments subulate erect ; 

 anthers short' sub-2-dymis, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen free, 3- 

 locular ; style short, apex shortly 3-lobed stigmatic ; ovules in cells 

 2, ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit capsular, linear- 

 oblong or subclavate, obtusely 3-gonal, loculicidally 3-valved ; septa 

 thickened in the middle. Seeds ^ 1-3, elongate, produced below to a 

 thin (arillate ?) membranous unequally 3-angular wing ; testa crusta- 

 ceous slightly punctulate-rugose ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of 

 (green) axile embryo foliaceous elliptic ; radicle rather long inferior. 

 — A glabrous shrub ; leaves often er opposite oblong-lanceolate coria- 

 ceous, serrate or subentire ; stipules minute ciliolate ; flowers in 

 axillary short dichotomous ramose cymes. {Arahia^ warm Eastern 

 and Southern Africa,^) 



4. Microtropis Wall.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 receptacle cupular. Sepals 5, unequal, much imbricate, persistent. 

 Petals 5, the alternate longer, imbricate, slightly fleshy or subcoria- 



1 White. n. 5678 (part.).— B. H. Gen. 361, n. 4.— H. Bn. 



2 Green. Payer Fam. Nat. 324. — Methyscophyllum Eckl. 

 2 A genus distinguished from Euonymous only et Zeyh. Enum. 152. — Trigonotheca Hochst. 



by the forms of its floral parts and fruit, and Flora (1841), 662. 



by its incompletely 2-celled germen. ^ Nearly of Hippocratea (or Canotia). 



^ Spec. 1. P. myrsinites Eafin. — Wats. Fxpl. ^ Spec. 1. C. edulis Fotsk. loc. cit. — A. Rice. 



Fort. Parall. Bat. . 50. — Myginda myrtifoh'a Fl. Abyss. Tent. i. t. SO.—Celastrus edulis Vahl, 



NuTT.— Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. 120, t. 41.— Symb. i. 21.— DC. Prodr. ii. 6,n. 25 (species of 



Oreophila myrtifolia Nutt. Qen. PI. i. 100. — CaMa of other authors belong to Ce/as^ws). 



Walp. Eep. i. 538. P. Canbyi A. Gray {Am. « Ex Arn. Ann. Nat. Mist. iii. 152.— Endl. 



/(9?<r«.^c. (1874), 442, is another species recently Gen. n. 5681.— B. H. Gen. 361.— Hoox. Fl. 



unknown to us. Jnd. i. 613. 



5 -F^.J^^.-^raJ. 63 (not of others). -Endl. Gen. 



