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number, siibentire or 2-fid, serrate or lacerate. Stamens double in 

 number, inserted in 2 series under epigynous simple or 2-plicate, 

 8-16-lobed disk projecting between the filaments and free ; anthers 

 introrsely 2-rimose. Germen partly or quite inferior ; cells 3-6 ; 

 style at stigmatose apex variously 3-6-lobed. Ovules in cells 2, 

 descending ; micropyle extrorse. Fruit generally crowned with 

 calyx, globular coriaceous. Seed ' globular or reniform ; albumen 

 fleshy; radicle of axile more or less incurved embryo superior. — 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite petiolate glabrous, entire 

 or serrulate; stipules interpetiolate, caducous; flowers small in 

 compound cymes ; pedicels articulate, minutely 2-bracteolate. {Asia^ 

 trop. Oceania^ Malacca.) — See p. 291. 



6. Crossostylis Foest.^ — Flowers nearly of Barraldeia; receptacle 

 shortly obconical or obpyramidal. Sepals 4, 5, 3-angular, valvate. 

 Petals same in number lacerate or more rarely sub entire {Haplopeta- 

 lum'^). Stamens 8-10, or oftener 12-co ,^ alternating with as many 

 lobes of disk;* anthers introrse. Germen adnate to receptacle at 

 base, thence free ; style at stigmatose apex funnel-shaped and there 

 reflexed oo -lobed. Ovules in cells 4-oo (very incomplete) 2-nate, 

 inserted in pairs on central column^ descending; micropyle ex- 

 trorsely superior. Fruit scarcely or to a less or greater extent adnate 

 to receptacle and crowned with calyx, scarcely or tardily septicidal. 

 Seeds oo , furnished with a fleshy aril ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of oftener straight embryo ^ narrowly ovate. — Small trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite; stipules, etc., of Barraldeia] flowers^ axillary 

 pedunculate, 2-nate or cymose qo . [Oceania.^) 



7. Gynotroches Bl.^ — Flowers nearly of Barraldeia^ 4-5-merous. 

 Stamens 8-10, inserted at margin of disk; anthers small sub-2- 

 dymous. Germen partly inferior; cells 4-6; style depressed- 



^ Char. Gen. 87, t. 44. — J. Gen. 432. — IvAmk. prominent or inconspicuous. 

 Diet. ii. 193. — DC. Frodr. iii. 296.— Endl. Gen. 6 Sometimes green. 



n. 6336. — Benth. Journ. linn. Soc. iii. 77. — H. 7 Large or minute, white. 



Bn. Adansonia, iii. 31, 40 ; Payer Fam. Nat. 361. ^ Spec, about 5. Gl'illem. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 



— B. H. Gen. 681, n. 10. —Tomostt/les Mont- 2, vii. 354.— A. Gkay, loc. cit. 610, t. 77.— 



ROUS. Mem. Acad. Lyon. x. 201. Seem. Fl. Vit. 428.— Br. et Gr. Bull. Soc. Bot. 



« A. Gray, TJnit. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 608, t. Fr. viii. 376 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xiii. 393. 

 76; Seem. Bonpl. (1862) 36.— Benth. Journ. ^ Bijdr. 2lS ; Mus.Luyd.-Bat. i. 126, t. Zl.— 



Linn. Soc. iii. 76. — B-.B-s. Adansonia, iii. 2d. Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 76. — H. Bn. 



3 Of which 4, 5, larger, oppositipetalous ; the Adansoniay iii. 30, 40; Payer Fam. Nat. 362. — 

 rest from the middle of the petal to the margin B. H. Gen. 681, n. 9. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 440. — 

 smaller ; the smallest often oppositipetalous. Bryptopetalum Arn. Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 372. — 



4 Often regarded as staminodes. Endl. Gen. n. 6103. 

 ° Bearing rudiments of septa generally little 



