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capitate. Ovules in cells 4, 2-seriate, descending.^ Fruit baccate, 

 CO -sperm ous ; seeds, etc., of Barraldeia. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite ; stipules interp etiolate, caducous ; flowers^ axillary cyinose, 

 articulate, ebracteolate. {Indian Archijpelago,^) 



8. Pellacalyx Koeth.* — Elowers ebracteolate ; receptacle tubular 

 or subcampanulate, produced beyond adnate germen and lined with 

 tubular disk. Sepals 4-6, inserted at top of tube, small, 3 -angular, 

 valvate, recurved. Petals small, inserted between sepals, at apex 

 slightly lacerate,^ or sometimes (Plcesiantha^). Stamens twice as 

 many as petals, inserted in 2 series under apex of tube. Germen 

 inferior; cells 6-10, complete or incomplete; style erect, at apex 

 capitate-disciform. Ovules in cells co . Eruit fleshy ; seeds co , 

 albuminous.'^ — Small trees ; leaves opposite petiolate, oblong entire 

 or serrulate ; stipules caducous ; flowers axillary solitary or glome- 

 rulate. (Indian Archijpelago?) 



III. MACAEISIE.^. 



9. Macarisia Dup.-Th. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle cu- 

 pular, lined with disk. Sepals 5, marginally inserted, 3 -angular, 

 valvate, reflexed. Petals 5, inserted under 10-dentate disk ; lobes 

 unequal involute. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, alternating with teeth of 

 disk; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen inserted at bottom of 

 receptacle, shortly stipitate, free, 5-locular; cells oppositipetalous, 

 incomplete above; style capitellate at apex. Ovules in cells 2, 

 collaterally descending ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit cap- 

 sular, girt at base with scarcely increased receptacle, oblong-5-angular, 

 loculicidally 5-valvate or incompletely 10-valvate. Seeds in cells 2, 

 descending ; testa produced above to a wing ; albumen fleshy ; coty- 

 ledons of elongate embryo oblong ; radicle superior. — Small trees ; 

 leaves opposite petiolate, oblong-lanceolate entire or denticulate; 



1 The upper younger. 75.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 31.— B. H. Gen. 680, 



2 Small, " greenish yellow," articulate. n. 6. — Hook. FL Lid. ii. 440. 



3 Spec. 2. Wall. Cat. n. 4338 {Microtropis). ' Sect. Eupellacalyx. 



— MiQ. FL Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 592 ; Suppl. 1-6, « Hook. f. Gen. 681, n. 8. 



326 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 67. — Walp. Ann. ? Emhrj-o elongate, greenish. 



vii- 951. 8 Spec. 2. Mia. FL Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 126, 325; 



4 Ned. Tijdschr. iii. 20, t. 2.— Griff. NotuL Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 67.— Walp. Ann. vii. 

 iv. 429, t. 486.— Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 251. 



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