32 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ceous, coherent at base. Sometimes more rarely {Paracelastrus ^). 

 Stamens 5, filaments at base adnate to margin of receptacle, or to 

 base of petals, otherwise free ; anthers introrse ovate rather large, 

 2-rimose. Germen at base adnate to concavity of receptacle, incom- 

 pletely 2-3-locular, style thick, apex stigmatic, minutely 2-3- 

 lobed. Ovules in cells 2, collaterally ascending suberect ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit capsular oblong, surrounded at base by 

 the perianth, tardily dehiscent, 2-3-valvate. Seed 1, stipitate oblong, 

 exterior soft or fleshy ; ^ albumen dense fleshy ; cotyledons of straight 

 embryo foliaceous. — Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves^ opposite 

 petiolate entire coriaceous thick, persistent; flowers* in axillary 

 cymes or glomerules. {East Indies,^) 



5. Kokoona Thw.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; calyx cupular 

 shortly lobate crenate or subentire. Petals 5, longer, thick coria- 

 ceous glandular-punctate, imbricate or contorted. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous \ filaments free short, at base thickly subulate and 

 inserted in as many hollows of a thick obtusely 5 -angled hypogynous 

 disk; anthers thick ovate-acute or oblong introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Germen immersed in base of disk, 3-locular; style short thick, apex 

 shortly 3-lobed stigmatic. Ovules in cells co , imbricate in 2-series, 

 obliquely ascending. Capsule (large) subligneous thick oblong, 

 3-gonal, loculicidally 3-valvate; valves inwardly septiferous. Seeds 

 00 , imbricate, produced either above or on both sides to a wide 

 wing ; testa of basilar or medial nucleus coriaceous ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo flat obovately cuneate or depressed 3-angular ; ^ 

 radicle inferior,^ or (with 2-alate seeds and 3-angular cotyledons), 

 ventral and horizontal very short. Glabrous wide- spreading branched 

 trees ; leaves opposite petiolate, entire or obscurely crenate, 

 coriaceous, sometimes punctate beneath; stipules small, caducous; 

 flowers ^ in axillary pedunculate compound cymes ; pedicels 2-brac- 

 teate. [Borneo^ Ceylon}^) 



6 ? Alzatea E. et Pav.^^ — ^^ Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous, 



^ M.iQ.,Fl. Ind.-Bat.i.^.n. o^O. 616. — Trigorwcarpus Wall. Cat. n. 6520 (not 



2 Testa red or dusky. Velloz. whose is a species of Cupania. 



3 Nearly of Cliisiacea or Rhizophorea. 7 Jn a Bomean species (herb. Beccari). 

 ^ Small white, sometimes recalling those of ^ In a Ceylon species. 



some Iticinecs, the petals for instance being s For the Order rather large (recalling those 



oftener free. of Rippocratea) ; petals bright yellow. 



5 Spec. 7, 8. Wight, Icon. t. 761, 976, 977, i" Spec. 2. Walp. Ann. iv. 368. 

 l^b'i.—T^vf.Enum.Pl.Zcyl.ll.—WM.v.Rep.i. " Prodr. 40, t. 7; FL Per et GUI. iii. 20, 

 534 ; Ann. i. 191 ; vii. 575. t. 241, fig. a.— DO. Prodr. ii. 10 (" apparently 



6 Hooh.Kew Journ. v. 379 ; Enum. PL Zeyl. allied to Maytenus"). — Endl. Gen. n. 5698. — 

 52.— B. H. Gen. 362, n. 8.— Hook. FL Ind. i. B. H. Gen. 362, n. 9. 



