426 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



entire or thinly lobed. Fruit 2-oo -celled, drupaceous; putamens l-oo ; 

 often 2-dymo-obcordate; flesh often scanty; epicarp glabrous, sericeous 

 or hirsute. Albumen of generally descending rarely more or less 

 ascending seed copious, fleshy or dense, rarely ruminate ; cotyledons 

 of straight or bent generally elongate embryo short ; radicle superior. 

 — Small trees or shrubs, rarely herbs (Fadogia), often glabrous or 

 variously clothed; stem sometimes climbing, unarmed or often 

 spinose ; leaves opposite or verticillate ; stipules inter- or intrapetiolar, 

 cuspidate or acuminate, connate, persistent ; flowers ^ in cymes or 

 glomerules, oftener axillary, pedicellate or subsessile, rarely few or 

 solitary ; inflorescence involucrate with 2 bracts more or less connate 

 (Psijdrax) or united in a broadly obconical cupule (Scyphochlamys ^). 

 {All trop. reg. of Old World.') 



66 ? Craterispermum Benth.^ — Flowers (nearly of Canthium) 

 5-merous; calyx cupular, dentate or sinuate, expanded coriaceous. 

 Lobes of funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform corolla 5, valvate ; throat 

 pilose. Stamens 5, inserted in throat ; filaments short ; anthers 

 oblong introrse dorsifixed, enclosed or exserted. Germen 2-celled ; 

 descending ovule &c. of Canthium ; ^ disk epigynous thick ; style 

 branches 2, recurved or connate in a subfusiform mass. Fruit dru- 

 paceous ; endocarp chartaceous ; front of descending albuminous seed 

 exsculptured ; radicle of small embryo superior. Glabrous shrubs ; ^ 

 leaves opposite oblong coriaceous venose ; stipules interpetiolar connate 

 with petioles broad, persistent ; flowers in axillary or supra- axillary 

 pedunculate often capituliform cymes, bracteolate. (Trop. AfricaJ) 



1 Generally small, more rarely rather large 545. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 420 ; Fi. Hongk. 

 showy, white, greenish, yellowish or pink, 158. — F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 185 {Pkctronia). 

 sometimes sweet-scented. — Bedd. Jc. FL Lid. Or. t. 238, 239 ; FL Sylv. 



2 Bale. f. Bak. Fl. Mam: 149 ; Journ. Linn. t. 221 ; cxxxiv. 5 (Plectronia). — Thw. Enicm. 

 Soc. xvi. 13 ; £ot. Rodrig. 48, t. 25. PI. Zeyl. 152.— H. Bn. Adansoma, xii. 220, 226. 



3 Spec, about 140. jAca. Sort. Schoenbr. t. 44 — Walp. Rep. ii. 475 {Mitrastigma), 484, 942 

 {Vangueria). — Wight, Icon. t. 826, 1034, 1064 {Vangtieria) ; vi. 46 {Mitrastigina), 47; Ann. i. 

 bis (Flectronia). — RoxB, Fl. Corom. t. 51 {Flee- 374; ii.7o6, 76i {Va»gueria),765 {Pachystigma, 

 tronia). — Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 13 ( Van- Cuviera, Dondisia), 766 {Rytigynia) ; v. 112. 

 gueria), 16, 17 {Fleet ronia).— Bale. f. Journ. * Higer Fl. 411.— B. H. Gen. ii. 112, n. 233.— 

 Linn. Soc. xvi. 14 {Fyrostria) ; Bot. Rodr. 47, t. Baker, Fl.Maurit. 145. 



24 (JPyrostria ?). — Bak. Fl. Maur. 145 {Plectra- » Of which perhaps rather a section ? 



rda)^ 147 {Vangueria) , 184 {Pyrostria). — Kl. « Yellowish green. 



Pet. Moss. Bot. 291.— HiERN, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 7 Spec. 4, 5. Poir. Diet. Suppl. ii. 14 (C>fea). 



132, 146 {Vangueria), 152 {Fadogia), 156 {Cuvi- — Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 160.— Baker, Fl. 



era), 158 (Ancylanthos). — Wawr. Flora (1875), Maur. 145.— Benth. Rook. Icon. t. 1235. — 



273.— M\Q,. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 2iS {Vangueria), 252, Walp. Ann. ii. 758. 



313 {Pyrostria); Suppl. 544 (Vangueria)^ 221, 



