80 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Stamens 5, alternipetalous. Germen inferior, 2, 3-celled; cells 

 sometimes incomplete at apex ; disk epigynous fleshy ; style erect, at 

 apex stigmatose, 2, 3-lobed. Ovules in cells solitary, descending, 

 inserted at top of septum there thickened; raphe dorsal. Fruit 

 drupaceous ; seeds albuminous ; cotyledons of elongate embryo in- 

 ferior linear. — Small trees or shrubs, in part white-tomentose ; leaves 

 alternate (evergreen), sometimes sub-fasciculate, entire, coriaceous ; 

 flowers in more or less ramose racemes, solitary in axil of each bract 

 or few cymose, sometimes axillary to leaves ; pedicels not articulate. 

 (New Zealand.) — See p. 68. 



3 ? Kaliphora Hook. f. — Flowers (nearly of Cornus) 1-sexual, 

 4-merous ; receptacle in males short, in females cupular concave. 

 Male calyx gamosepalous, 4-lobed. Petals 4, much longer, valvate or 

 scarcely imbricate. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; filaments short 

 slender, inserted around thick sinuate disk ; anthers introrse apicu- 

 late ; connective broad ; cells discrete, longitudinally rimose. Female 

 calyx short, inserted at margin of receptacle, 4-dentate. Corolla . . . ? 

 Germen (in male flower rudimentary conical) to middle adnate to 

 receptacle, 2-celled, above free and attenuated to a short thick recurved- 

 2-lobed style and there stigmatose within. Ovules in cells solitary, 

 descending; micropyle superior within (?), oftener finally lateral. 

 Drupe small compressed; pyrenes 2, compressed, 1-spermous. Seed 

 oblong ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of linear embryo flat ; radicle 

 superior or oblique short. — A glabrous shrub (?), ^' rich in potassium;" 

 leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate entire coriaceous ; flowers (small) 

 in short drooping compound axillary cymes ; female pedicels 2- 

 bracteolate, not articulate. {Madagascar.) — See p. 69. 



4. Helwingia W. — Flowers dioecious subasepalous ; receptacle 

 of males short depressed ; of females saclike or campanulate very 

 concave, and enclosing adnate germen. Perianth (corolla ?) 3-5- 

 merous ; folioles valvate. Stamens (in female flower 0) 3-5, alter- 

 nating with folioles of perianth ; filaments inserted under flat 3-5- 

 angular disk, thick incurved ; anthers short introrse ; cells discrete, 

 rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary depressed- conical or 

 0) inferior, 3, 4-celled, crowned with epigynous disk and style 

 presently divided into as many recurved-patent branches stigmatose 

 within. Ovules in cells solitary descending; micropyle introrsely 



