48 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Fruit . . . ? — A scandent glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite oblong 

 acuminate serrate ; flowers ^ in axillary cymes much shorter than the 

 leaf.^ {Angola). 



y. his. OLIlSriE^. 



38. Olinia Thtjnb. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle very 

 concave surrounding the adnate germen below, and far produced in 

 a tube above ; the mouth round the insertions of the periauth pro- 

 duced externally to a short subentire or obscurely sinuate ring. 

 Sepals 4-5, inserted in the throat of the receptacle subspathulate 

 (coloured), pilose within at base, valvate. Petals 4-5, inserted and 

 alternating with the sepals, short squamiform incurved subcucullate, 

 valvate. Stamens same in number oppositipetalous ; filaments 

 short incurved; anthers small 2-dymous; connective produced 

 beyond the (introrsely rimose) cells to a cupuliform glandule. Ger- 

 men inferior, adnate to bottom of receptacle, 3-5-locular ; style erect, 

 apex subclavate stigraatose. Ovules in cells 2-3, ascending; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit drupaceous, areolate at truncate apex ; 

 putamens 3-5, oftener 1-spermous. Seed ascending '^ exalbuminous ; 

 testa thinly coriaceous ; cotyledons of axile embryo irregularly con- 

 volute ; radicle short inferior." — A glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite 

 petiolate entire penninerved coriaceous. Flowers in short axillary 

 oftener 3-chotomous cymes. {South Africa.) 



VI. BUXE^. 



39. Buxus T. — Flowers monoecious or more rarely dioecious 

 apetalous; male calyx 4-partite; laciniae decussately imbricate. 

 Stamens 4, opposite the petals ; filaments free, inserted under the 

 oftener 4-gonal rudiment of the gynsecium ; anthers introrse 2-rimose. 

 Female sepals often 6, 2-seriately 3-nate, imbricate. Staminodes 0. 

 Germen free 3-locular ; cells opposite exterior sepals ; styles free, 

 very rarely connate at base, oftener separate from each other and 

 peripheric, sulcate within and stigmatose at subbilobed apex ; top of 

 the germen slightly prominent between the styles and turgidly tuber- 



^ " Small, sulphur coloured." the " Hippocrate<B with the rest of the Celastn- 



' Onespecies. unknown to us, closely connects ncce " (B. H.). 



