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alternate petiolate, entire coriaceous venose, sub-3-plincrved ; stipules 

 minute, caducous ; flowers in axillary pedunculate (spurious ?) 

 umbels ; pedicels slender ; buds conical. {Guiana.) See p. 10. 



lY. AZIME^. 



32. Azima Lamk. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious regular; calj^x 

 sacciform membranous, valvate, 4- or unequally -fid. Petals 4, often 

 narrow, not continuous at base. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; fila- 

 ments subulate longer than the corolla (sometimes in female flowers 

 connate with it in a short ring) ; anthers short, introrsely 2-rimose (in 

 female flower effete). Germ en (in male flower rudimentary) free, 

 2-locular ; cells sometimes 2-locellate ; style short, apex stigmatose 

 capitate subentire or divided into 2 acute reflexed lobes. Cells 

 1 -ovulate [Euazima) or 2-ovulate {Actegeton) and protected by a 

 spurious septum between each ovule. Ovules subbasilar ascending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior (often finally lateral). Fruit baccate 

 globose, 1-4-spermous ; testa of erect seed cartilaginous ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous fleshy embryo suborbiculate plano-convex, auricu- 

 late at base ; radicle short inferior concealed in auricules. — Shrubs 

 more or less sarmentous ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous ; stipules 

 lateral articulate, spines (the costse of the leaves) in axils of leaves 2 

 or 4-6 (of which 2 are smaller) ; flowers in axils of leaves solitary 

 glomerate, cymose or racemoso-cymose. [Tropical Asia, Indian 

 Archipelago, southern and tropical Eastern Africa, continental and 

 insular). See p. 11. 



33. Dobera J.^ — Flowers (nearly of Azima) polygamous (or 

 hermaphrodite ?) ; receptacle shortly cupuliform. Calyx gamo- 

 phyllous, valvate, unequally divided or 4-lobed. Petals 4, free. 

 Glandules 4, oppositipetalous, flat thick. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments 1-adelphous^ to middle; anthers elongate subsagittate 

 introrse. Germen (in female flower effete) 2-5-locular ; 1 cell fertile ; 

 ovule of Azima. Berry ellipsoid, seed^ and other characters of 

 Azima. — Trees ; leaves opposite entire articulate ; stipules very small ; 



1 Gen. 425.— Pom. Diet. Suppl. ii. 493.— Pl. Fl. Ahjss. Tent. i. 108.— Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 191. — H. Bn. Adansonia, 75. 



X. 31.— A. DC. Frodr. xvii. o().—Tomex Forsk. ^ Like Melice. 



JEg.-Arah.Z2{noilj.noxTnvs-R.). — Schizocalyx ^ Indumentum purple sub-fleshy ; embryo 



HocHST. Flora (1844), Beibl. 1.— A. Rich. green (ex Ehrenb. Icon. I^ithogr. incd.) 



