RUB I AC E^. 431 



panulate ; throat pubescent or villosulous ; lobes of limb 4, 5, closely 

 contorted. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in mouth of corolla ; filaments 

 short; anthers introrse dorsifixed acuminate, 2-rimose, exserted. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk annular or depressed ; style short thick fusi- 

 form, produced to 8-10 narrow vertical wings ; as many longitudinal 

 furrows ; ^ branches 2, solute or coalite. Ovules in cells solitary, 

 descending ; hilum more or less dilated fleshy ; micropyle introrsely 

 superior (sometimes a lateral mass added less than the ovule,^ 

 descending). Fruit small subspherical or short-ovoid, coriaceous- 

 fleshy, 2-celled. Seeds in cells 1, *' 2," descending, arillate above ; 

 albumen ruminate f radicle of oblique embryo lateral. — Small glabrous 

 trees ; leaves opposite petiolate, elliptical or lanceolate ; stipules 

 intrapetiolar, 3-angular acute, persistent ; flowers in axillary or lateral 

 compound cymes; branches short or sometimes elongate slender 

 {Bhahdostigma ^), bracteolate.^ {Trop. east. Asia, Travancore.^) 



76. Alberta E. Mey.'' — Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle obconical 

 or turbinate, 10-costate or smooth. Calyx 5-sepalous ; folioles 

 unequal ; 1-4 accrescent, in fruit membranous venose.^ Corolla 

 elongate ; tube straight or shghtly curved ; throat bare ; lobes short 

 acute contorted. Stamens 5, inserted in tube; anthers subsessile 

 enclosed elongate dorsifixed, acuminate at apex, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen inferior, 2-celled ; disk epigynous thick or depressed ; style 

 slender exserted, at apex fusiform long-pointed, straight or curved. 

 Ovules in cells solitary, descending, attenuate below, above thickened 

 to a flat aril (?). Fruit conformed to receptacle, 10-costate, crowned 

 with sepals, coriaceous, indehiscent ; seeds 1, 2, thinly albuminous; 

 cotyledons of terete embryo small ; radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite ; stipules intrapetiolar broad, deciduous ; flowers in 

 very compound-ramose cymiferous terminal racemes. (South. Africa, 

 Madagascar.^) 



1 By impression of the anthers. ^ Linncea, xii. 258. — Endl. &en. n. 3327; 



2 A sterile ovule ? Suppl. i. 1394, n. 13131.— B. H. Gen. ii. 109, n. 



3 Observed in one (African) species. 225. 



^ Hook. f. Gen. ii. 109, n. 224. 8 Coloured. 



* A genus apparently very near to Hypo- » Spec. 2. HAKv.and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 15. — 



bathrum. Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 45. — H. Bx. Adansonia^ 



" Spec. 3, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 355 {Pouche- xii. 247. Sepals in a species from Madagascar 



tia). — HiERN, FL Trop, Afr. ii. 114, 130 {Rhab- generally subequal. 

 dostigmd). — Walp. Rep. vi. 43. 



