BHAMNACE^. 77 



disk. Germen at base of receptacle, 2- or more rarely 3-locular; 

 style short columnar or truncate-conical, apex stigmatose shortly 

 lobed or 2-3-fid ; ovules in complete or incomplete cells I, other 

 characters of Bhamnus. Fruit free capsular ; exocarp thin, finally 

 separable from endocarp ; cocci of endocarp cartilaginous-crustaceous 

 or membranous-woody, septicidally solute and opening inwards, 

 and also at base solute from short receptacle and exposing the shortly 

 stipitate and erect persistent seeds in it. Seed exarillate ; testa very 

 hard nitid ; ^ albumen fleshy or sabcartilaginous ; cotyledons of axile 

 embryo flat rather thick. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alter- 

 nate penninerved ; stipules small or ; flowers in subumbellate 

 subsimple or compound cymes axillary or inserted in the wood of 

 the branches. (Australia, New Caledonia?') 



6. Sarcomphalus P. Br.^ — Flowers (nearly of Bhamnus) herma- 

 phrodite somewhat fleshy ; receptacle obconical or sub-hemispherical. 

 Petals long-unguiculate cucullate. Stamens 5, equal in length to 

 opposite petals ; filaments much incurved in the bud ; anthers hence 

 before anthesis included between the germen and the disk, finally 

 exserted; cells didymous, extrorsely rimose. Germen 2-3-locular, 

 ovules and other characters of Rhamnus ; branches of style 2, 3, 

 apex obtuse stigmatose. Drupe ovoid, girt at base below the 

 middle w^ith cupule of receptacle ; putamen osseous, 2-3-locular ; 

 septa thick very hard. Seed suberect obovate compressed, some- 

 times subcarinate within exarillate ; embryo... ? — Glabrous trees 

 or shrubs, unarmed * or spinous ; leaves alternate petiolate quite 

 entire glabrous coriaceous, penninerved or oftener 3-plinerved; 

 stipules small ; flowers in axillary and terminal ramose peduncu- 

 late cymes. {Antilles^') 



7. Hovenia Thunb.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle de- 

 pressed and broadly obconical, lined with a thin pilose disk. Sepals 



^ R^d. Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 31. [Zizyphus havanensis 



2 Spec. 3, 4. Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 414 {JEm- K. is [Griseb. loc. cit,] a species of Sarcomphalt, 

 menospermum). — H. Bx. Adansonia, xi. 269. notwithstanding its inflorescence, whicli is 



3 /aw. 179.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. TF.-Ind. 100. mthev ths^t of Zizt/phiis). 



— B. H. Gen. 376, n. 7. 6 jr/. jap. 101.— J. Gen. 381.— Lamk. Diet. 



•* And then with the habit and leaves of some iii. 138; ///. t. 131. — DC. Frodr. i. 40. — Ad. 



Cinnamoma. Br. Rhamn. 60, t. 4.— Spach, Suit, d Buffon, ii. 



5 Spec. 4, 5. li.Am(£n,\. 395 [Rhamnus).— 456.— Endl. Gen. n. 5721.— B. H. Gen. 378, 



H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 57, not. [Rham- n. 12.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 640. 

 nus). — DC. Frodr. ii. 30, n. i. [Ceanothus). — 



