306 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stipules interpetiolate ; flowers axillary compound- cymose ; pedicels 

 articulate, 2-bracteolate. [Madagascar.) — See p. 293. 



10. Cassipourea Aubl.^ — Flowers nearly of Macarisia, 4-5- 

 merous. Stamens^ 15-30, inserted at margin of disk ; disk, etc., of 

 Macarisia. German very shortly stipitate or subsessile ; cells 3, 4, 

 2-ovulate.^ Fruit fleshy or suberose, tardily septicidal. Seed aril- 

 late ; * embryo albuminous.^ — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, entire or crenulate, penninerved ; stipules interpetiolate, 

 caducous; flowers^ axillary cymose or solitary. (Trop.centr, America J) 



11. Dactylopetalum Benth.^ — Flowers nearly of Cassipourea, 

 5-6-merous ; calyx dentate. Petals at base long narrow, lacerate at 

 apex. Stamens 10, 2-seriate; the oppositipetalous longer; or 15, 

 inserted under the crenatures of the disk ^ lining the receptacle ; 

 filaments inflexed in bud or 2-plicate; anthers introrse versatile. 

 Germen more or less completely 2-3-locular ;^° ovules in cells 2 ; 

 obturator thick. Fruit . . . ? — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site entire coriaceous; stipules small, caducous ; flowers" axillary 

 cymose or glomerulate, sometimes very crowded, articulate. Other 

 characters of Cassipourea, (Trop. west. Africa, Madagascar}'^) 



12? Blepharistemma Wall. ^^ — ^^ Flowers polygamo-dioecious 

 (nearly of Cassipourea)^ 4-merous ; calyx valvate. Petals 4, lacerate, 

 and stamens 8 (of Cassipourea). Germen free, contracted at base, 

 3-locular ; ovules in cells 2 and other characters of Cassipourea. — A 

 shrub (?) ; leaves opposite petiolate sinuately crenate penninerved ; 

 stipules interpetiolate, caducous ; cymes axillary shortly pedunculate, 

 oo -florous." {East India.^^) 



^ Ouian. i. 529, t. 21 L — J. Gen. 432. — Lamk. ^ Journ. Linn. Soc.m.. 79. — H. Bii.Adansonia, 



Lict.i. 653.— DC. Frodr. iii. 33.— Exdl. Gen- n. iii. 21, 35.— B. H. Gen. 682, n. 14. 



6104. — BEyiB.. Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 79. — H. Bn. ^ Lobes of disk oftener in pairs interior to 



Adansonia, iii. 25, 38; Fat/er Fam. Nat. 362. — smaller stamens ; or filaments sometimes at base 



B. H. Gen. 682, n. 15. — Tita Scop. Introd. n. continuous with margins of disk. 



967. — Legnotis Sw. JProdr. 84 ; Fl. Lid. Dec. 968, ^" Style sometimes tubular, thicker at apex, 



t. 17. ^^ Whitish. 



2 Exterior to cupular disk. . '2 Spec, about 3. Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 



^ Obturator rather thick above micropyle. 123, n. 6 {Cassipourea). — Oliy. i^^. Trop. Afr. ii. 



4 Lobes laterally produced to aril. 411. — H. Bn. Adans. xi. 374. 



5 Sometimes coloured. i' Cat. n. 6320.— Benth. Jotirn. Linn. Soc. iii. 



6 Small or rather large, white. 78.— B. H. Gen. 684, n. 13.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 ^ Spec. 2, 3. Pom. Bict. Suppl. ii. 131.— 441. 



Hook. Icon. t. 280. — Griseb. FL Brit. W.-Ind. ^^ Spec. 1. B. corymbosum, Wall. — Lryptope' 



274. talum membranaceum, Miq. exs. Rohen. n. 713. 



