UMBELLIFERJS. 255 



shrubs ; leaves alternate imparipinnate, or the upper opposite simple ; 

 stij^ules connate within base of petiole short or ; flowers in solitary 

 or umbellate umbellules ; bracts very small ; pedicels not articulate, 

 or constricted under flower and sometimes obscurely articulate.* 

 (Malaija, Ind. Arcliip,'^) 



116. Mastixia Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Arthrophyllum) 4-5- 

 merous; receptacle subcampanulate or turbinate. Calyx short, 4-5- 

 dentate. Petals 4-5, and stamens of ArthrophijUum, Germen 

 inferior, 1-celled, 1 -ovulate; style short thick, stigmatose at apex; 

 disk epigynous fleshy depressed or conical. Ovule descending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous, subglobose or 

 oblong, areolate at apex; putamen hard, sometimes longitudinally 

 sulcate and then having a vertically intruded process. Seed de- 

 scending, sometimes deeply sulcate along process of putamen; 

 albumen fleshy uniform ; embryo small subapical. — Glabrous trees 

 or bushes ; leaves ^ alternate and opposite, entire ; flowers in terminal 

 compound-cymiferous (?) racemes ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate.* 

 [East Ind. jpeiiins., Ceijlon.^) 



117. Plerandra A. Gray.^ — Flowers^ hermaphrodite (or poly- 

 gamous?); calyx short, entire, sinuate or dentate. Petals oftener 5, 

 thick,^ concave within, 2-locellate, valvate; point induplicate. Stamens 

 either 10, 5-adelphous; filaments each 2-antheriferous alternipetalous 

 (Pentadiplandra^^) ; or 10-18, l-^ermie {Triplasandra^^), sometimes 

 to 15, *' 1 -seriate " {Bakeria ^'^) or oftener oo , pluriseriate {Tetraplas- 



^ Concerning: the somewhat doubtful auto- a section ; incorrectly considered by Decaisne 



nomy of the gen. Mastixia see next genus. [Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, ix. 279) as OJacinea-Opdiea. 



2 Spec. 3, 4. ZoLL. et Mor. Verz. 41.— Jungh. ^ gpec. 6, 7. Miq. Fl. Jungh. 426 ; FL Ind.- 

 et DE Vries, Ned. Eruidk. Arch. i. 19.— MiQ. Bat. i. p. i. 771, 1095.— W alp. Ann. i. 124 

 FL Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 767, t. 14. — C. Koch, (Fursinojjetaluin). 



Wochenschr. (1859) 370.— Walp. Ann. i. 982. 7 Un. St. Expl. Exp. Bat. i. 729, t. 95 (1854). 



3 Bijdr. 654 ; Mas. Lugd.-Bat. i. 256, t. 58.— —Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 241 ; Fl. Fit. t. 22 — 

 DC. Frodr. iv. 275.— Endl. Gen. n. 4578.— B. H. Gen. 949, n. 36.- -H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 

 H. Bx. Adansonia, iii. 80.— B. H. Gen. 950, n. 136-138. 



6. — Bursinopetalum Wight, Icon. t. 956. — Thw. ^ 'White or yellowish. 



Kew Oard. Misc. vii. 242 ; Enum. PI. Zeyl. 42. ^ Sometimes expanded near anthesis, some- 



— Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 205. times more or less calyptrately coherent and 



■* Growing darker by desiccation. circumscissus at base (which neither in the 



* Gen. of Nyxsece (Bl.), Aquifoliacece (Miers), Order nor in the genus seems of moment vary- 



CornacecB (B. H.), perhaps congeneric with Ar- ing much in the same plant). 



throphyllim from which it differs chiefly in the " H. Bn. Adansonia^ xii. 136. 



nature of its inflorescence and seed, nearly as " Seem. Journ, Bot. vi. 139, 165. 



Fremopanax, of which perhaps it would be better ^^ Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 248 ; FL Fit. t. 21. 



