40 NATURAL H1S20RY OF PLANTS. 



or slightly imbricate, 3-angular. Germen half immersed in rather 

 thick, oftener 5-gonal disk and not confluent with it; cells 2, 

 2-ovulate ; ovules ascending ; a spurious septum more or less deve- 

 loped between the ovules in each cell (hence cells 4, 1-ovulate). 

 Berry subglobose (small) slightly fleshy ; seeds exarillate, externally 

 more or less triate or costate ; embryo small albuminous. — Unarmed 

 shrubs, generally glabrous ; leaves alternate petiolate subovate 

 serrulate, sometimes glandular ; stipules minute, deciduous ; flowers^ 

 in slender axillary more or less compound cymiferous racemes. 

 {Both tropical Americas^ tropical Oceania.'^) 



22? Frauenhofera Maet.^ — Flowers nearly of Perrottetia^ 5- 

 merous ; sepals and petals imbricate, germen 2-locular ; ovules in 

 cells 2, ascending. Fruit * cylindrical subsiliquiform, conical at apex ; 

 pericarp fibrous coriaceous, 1-locular. Seed 1, suberect, embryo...? 

 — A small softly pubescent tree ; leaves alternate ovate entire or ser- 

 rulate ; stipules very small deciduous ; flowers ^ in axillary and 

 terminal filiform glomeruliferous spikes, bracteolate. [Bradl.^) 



23 ? Siphonodon Geiff.'^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 rather thick cupular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals same in number, 

 alternate longer, erect open, imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, 

 slightly perigynous with perianth; filaments 1-adelphous at base, 

 complanate, incurved at free apex ; anthers basifixed shortly subsa- 

 gittate ; cells marginal oblique linear, subextrorsely rimose. Germen 

 immersed at base in hollow of receptacle and adnate to it ; cells co ,^ 

 unequally pluriseriate ; ovules in each solitary, ascending ; style (?) 

 central (subgynobasically) inserted vertically intruding between the 

 germ ens, at apex obtuse or subemarginate and surrounded at base 

 with oo ^ of unequal papillose squamules. Fruit drupaceous, sparsely 



1 Minute, white or greenish. •* From description and figure nearly of 



2 Spec. 6 (2 of which are Old World). A. Catha ("1 in. long, \ in. thick"), by which 

 Gray, Amer. JExpl. Exp. Bot. i . 290, t. 24. — Karst. alone the genus is distinguished from the other- 

 Fl. Columb. ii. 47, t. 124. — Turcz. Bull. Mosc. wise closely allied Perrottetia. 



(1863), i. 605 {Thcaphyllum). — Miq. Fl. Ind.- ^ Very small, according to figures, pale pink. 



Bat. i. p. ii. 591 {Caryospermum).—^. Muell. 6 gpec. 1. F. multijlora Mart. — Reiss. Mart. 



Fragm. v. 202 {Caryospcrmum). — Walp. Rep. i. Fl. Bras. Cclastr. 32, t. 4, fig. 16. — Walp. Rep. 



539; Ann. iv. 427 ; vii. 581 {Caryospermum), 582. ii. 536. 



There is no valid distinction between Perrut- 7 Calc. Journ. of Nat. Hist. iv. 247, t. 14. — 



tetia and Caryosperma, whose cells are 2-ovu- B. H. Gen. 370, 998, n. 38. — Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 



late ; the spurious septum often observed in the 629. — Asterogyne Wall. Sort. Calc. 



Perrottetia being produced between the seeds of ^ Very likely 5, *' divided by spurious septa 



the same cell. The flower, except its altemi- between the ovules " (Hook. f.). (?) 



petalous stamens, is quite rhamnaceoiis. » Stigmas cristate according to Hook. f. in 



^ Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 85, t. 235. — Endl. Icon. 

 Geu. n, 5085.— B. H. Gen, 366, n. 25. 



