254 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



anatropous ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous, at 

 apex areolate or depressed-conical and girt with remains or scar of 

 calyx; putamen hard 3-4-celled. Seed in cells solitary descending; 

 albumen copious ; radicle of more or less elongate embryo cylindrical 

 superior. — Tomentose bushes ; leaves (evergreen) opposite, petiolate, 

 ovate-oblong acute, coarsely dentate, penninerved coriaceous ; flowers ^ 

 in terminal ramose and cymiferous racemes ; pedicels articulate 

 bracteate and 2-3-bracteolate. (South. Africa.^) 



114. Meryta FoKST.^ — Flowers* dioecious, asepalous, 3-6-merous; 

 receptacle of males small obconical ; of females ovoid or subspherical, 

 enclosing adnate germen. Petals thick, valvate; apical point in- 

 curved. Stamens equal in number to and alternating with petals ; 

 anthers ovate or ovate-oblong, introrsely 2-rimose (in female flower 

 smaller, effete or 0). Germen (in male flower rudimentary) 3-6- 

 celled ; cells oppositipetalous ; styles as many recurved or revolute, 

 sulcate stigmatose within. Ovules in cells solitary descending; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous ; pyrenes 3-6, often 

 costatOj 1-spermous ; albumen uniform. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate, simple or sinuate or widely dentate ; flowers in 

 subsimple or ramose capituliferous spikes or racemes; bracts and 

 bracteoles squamiform small or shortly foliaceous and longer than 

 the bud, entire or dentate. (Suhtroj). and temp. Oceania.^) 



115. Arthrophyllum Bl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous ; calyx short, 5- dentate. Petals valvate ; apex inflexed. 

 Stamens inserted under conical disk passing into a short style above. 

 Germen inferior, 1-celled; ovule 1, inserted under apex of cell; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior, covered by thickened funicle. Fruit 

 drupaceous ; putamen crustaceous ; albumen of subglobose pendulous 

 seed deeply ruminate with transverse layers. — Glabrous trees or 



^ Small, yellowish. 2, viii. 349 {Botryode»dro)i). — DcxE. Voy.Venus, 



2 Spec. 1. G. faginea Ait. loe. cit. — Lamk. III. Bot. 25 {Boiryodendron). — A. Gkay, Un. St. Expl. 

 t. 71.— DC. Prodr. ii. 12.— Hakv. and Sonu. i^/. Exp. Bot. i. 730, t. 96, 97 [Botryodendron) .— 

 Cap. ii. 570.— Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 124. Hook. p. Eandb. N. Zeal. Fl. 10-i; Bot. Mag. t. 



3 Char. Gen. 119, t. 60.— J. Gin. 442.— Seem. 5932.— Walp. Ann. v. 85 [BAryodendron). 

 Bonplandia (1862), 294.— B. H. Gen. 940, n. 16. ^ qij^^^ 878.— DC. Prodr. iv. 266.— Endl. 

 — H. Bn. Adausonia, xii. 152. — Botri/odeudrum Gen. n. 4562.— Dcxe. et Pl. Mev. Hart. (1854) 

 '£^^01,. Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. Q>'2; Gtn.ix.^b^Z. 109. — Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 206. — H. Bx. 



"* Yellowish or greenish. Adansonia, iii. 83; xii. 135, 158.— Hook. Fl. 



5 Spec, about 10. Guillem. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. Ind. ii. 733. 



