JiUniACEJE. 453 



rec8i)tacle subglobose or obconical. Calyx cupular, 5- or more rarely 

 C), 7-(leiitate. Corolla shorfc-fannel-shaped, subrotate or subnrceolate 

 (Paiiri(liantha^) ; lobes valvate, 3-angular, generally 5 (more rarely 

 0, 7) ; tliroat villose. Stamens 5-7, inserted in throat ; filaments 

 short ; anthers small dorsifixed oblong apiculate, enclosed or more 

 rarely exserted (in female flower smaller or sterile). Germen (in 

 male flower small efl*ete) subinferior ; cells 3-5-7, or more rarely 2 

 (rauridiantha); disk epigynous various, oftener tumid, sulcate or 

 obtusely lobed ; style erect, sometimes tumid to middle or to base, 

 at apex stigmatose more or less dilated, subglobose, ovoid or clavate, 

 obtusely or more or less deeply 2-7 -lobed. Ovules oo, minute, 

 inserted on placentas affixed to axis of ovarium, shortly stipitate, 

 sometimes ascending. Fruit small, baccate or coriaceous, 2-7-celled ; 

 seeds crowded small subglobose, foveolate or reticulate, richly albu- 

 minous. — Glabrous, tomentose or strigose shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 petiolate, elliptico- or oblong-lanceolate, often acuminate ; stipules 

 various, intra- or interpetiolar, sometimes large ; flowers^ in axillary 

 sessile or pedunculate, many-flowered or sometimes (Paiiridiantha) 

 1-flowered cymes. (Trop. Asia and Oceania , trop. west. Africa, 

 Madagascar.^) 



115 ? Aulacodiscus Hook, f."^ — Flowers 1-sexual or polygamous, 

 6-16-merous ; receptacle cupular, enclosing adnate base of germen. 

 Calyx short truncate, obtusely sinuate or dentate. Petals of short 

 subrotate corolla 6-16, generally subfree, 3-angular, cohering by 

 means of staminal filaments, valvate ; apex inflexed. Stamens as 

 many alternate; filaments subperigynous, much incurved in bud, 

 subfree ; anthers short dorsifixed, introrsely 2-rimose (in female flower 

 sterile very small or 0). Germen great part inferior, crowmed with 

 thick superior prominently 6-10-lobed disk, 6-16-celled (in female 

 flower small, sterile) ; style inserted at bottom of disk cavity and 

 subenclosed, broad-obconical, at apex widely peltat3-6-16-lobed. 

 Ovules 00, minute, inserted on rather prominent thick axile placentas. 



LvuL. Go. n. 3226.— Wallichia Eeinw. ex Bl. (J.nvif./ies).—MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bnt. ii. 222, Sno ; 



nova (1825), 107 (not DC.).— Hook. i^/. ///rf. iii. Suppl. i. 219, .542.-Bedd. FL Sjfv. t. 16, v. ; 



i7.—? Axanthopsis Korth. Ned. Kruidk. Arc/i. cxxxi.— Thw. Fmim. FL ZeyL 139 {Axaidhcs). 



19o (ex '^UQ..).—Cymilo),ema Presl, FpimeL — Kuiiz. For. FL Brit. Burm. ii. 52.— Hiekx, 



^10. FL Trop. Afr. iii. 71 (Fauriduvt/ic), 72.— 



» Hook. f. Gr.u. ii. 69, n. 114. Walp. Ann. i. 375 {A.va>.thes) ; ii. 767 {.Lra - 



" Small or very small. t/wpns). 



3 Spec, about 30. Wight, Icon. t. 1163-1165 ^ Gt//. ii. 71, n. 119.— Hook. FL Ind. iii. 97. 



