46 NATURAL HT810RY OF PLANTS. 



flowers^ in axillary terminal and more or less ramose spikes, 

 articulate at concave base. [Eastern Africa^ south-western Asia.^) 



34. Salvadora Garcin.^ — Flowers (nearly of Azima) hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous; calyx 4-fid, alternately imbricate, persistent. 

 Petals * 4, longer and broad, contorted or imbricate, closely coadunate 

 with each other to middle and by means of the filaments into 

 a spurious gamopetalous corolla. Stamens 4 ; filaments alterni- 

 petalous adherent to corolla at base, above free ; anthers introrse. 

 Germen superior, 1-locular,^ apex truncate-sessile stigmatic ; ovule 

 in cell 1 (of Azima). Berry, seed, and other characters of Azima. — 

 Small trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite simple, sometimes very 

 coriaceous ; stipules very small, caducous ; flowers ^ in simple or more 

 or less compound ramose spikes, bracteate. {Southern Asia, tropical 

 and subtropical western and eastern continental and insular Africa^) 



V. HIPPOCRATEEiE. 



35. Hippocratea L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; sepals 5, small 

 and petals same in number, longer, imbricate, or valvatc. Stamens 

 3 (or rarely 5 ; 2, 3 anantherous) ; filaments free or adnate to 

 germen at dilated base, apex attenuated, recurved or reflexed. 

 Anthers 2-locular or 4-locellate, didymous or oblong; cells finally 

 confluent and extrorsely dehiscent. Disk covering receptacle, 

 broadly explanate, conical or cupular. Germen either free, or 

 confluent with disk, 3-locular ; style short subulate, apex stigmatic 

 subentire, 3-lobed or 3-fid ; ovules in cells 2-cx) , inserted in two 

 series in the intcTual angle of the colls. Carpels of fruit 3, gent^rally 

 dry, connate at base, afterwards compressed or broadly aliform, 

 coriaceous indehiscent or laterally 2-valvate. Seeds compressed, 



1 White. ^ " Vestigia interdum loculi abortientis dis- 



2 Spec. 1, 2, imperfectly known. cernere suspicatus sum." (A. DC. loc cit. 28.) 



3 Act. Angl. 1749 (L. Gen. ed. 6, 163).— J. Gen. « Very small, white or greenish. 



84.— Lamk. i//. t. 8.— PoiR. i)ici. vi. 483 ; Snppl. 7 Spec. 1, 2. L. Spec. i. 178; Syst. 889 



V. 28.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon xiii. 335.— Endl. (i2«V/;;m).— Forsk. JEfj.-Arab. 32 {Cissus).—' 



Gen. n. 2177.— Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. x. 189.— Retz. Obs. iv. 23, 24 {£ mbeli a). —YahIj, Symb. 



LiNDL. Veg. Kingd. 652, fig. 436.— Payer, Fain. i. 12.— Roxb. PI. Coromand. i. 26, t. 26 ; Fl. 



Nat. 14.— Lem. ct DcNE. Tr. G^n. 453.— H. Bn. Lid. (ed. Wall.), i. 404 —Wight, III. ii. 229, 



Adansonia, ix. 287.— A. DC. Frodr. xvii. 27. t. 181 ; Icon. t. 1621.- Dcne. Jacqucm. Voy. 



* The annular intemode disjoined from the Bot. iv. 140, t. 144. — Walp. Ann. iii. 282. 

 calyx. 



