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throat dilated ; lobes of limb ovate, induplicate-valvate ; pubescent 

 within, furnished externally under apex with a longer or shorter 

 clavate appendage,* finally open. Stamens inserted in throat, sessile; 

 anthers elongate exserted ; cells introrse, free at base. Germen 2- 

 celled ; disk very thin ; style slender, at apex stigmatose ovoid 

 subclavate. Ovules oo, inserted on an axile placenta, ascending, 

 imbricate. Fruit capsular ^ oblong compressed, loculicidal. Seeds oo, 

 ascending, imbricate, dilated at margin to an oblong wing, entire 

 ovate above, 2-lobed below ; albumen . . . ? — A glabrous tree ; bark 

 bitter ; leaves (persistent) opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate ; 

 stipules elongate, caducous ; flowers ^ in a 3-chotomous ramose com- 

 pound cymiferous raceme; '' pedicels ebracteolate." {Angola^) 



169. Danais Commers.^ — Flowers dioecious or polygamous; recep- 

 tacle subglobose (in male flower smaller). Calyx lobes 4, 5, acute 

 or subulate, persistent. Corolla hypocrateriform or funnel-shaped ; 

 lobes 4, 5, valvate; throat villose. Stamens 4, 5, 2-form; filaments 

 inserted in throat, in male flower long slender exserted ; in female 

 short or ; anthers dorsifixed (in female flower sterile) introrse, 

 versatile, 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled; disk annular; style slender, 

 in male flower shorter enclosed ; branches 2, slender bare ; in female 

 flower far exserted ; branches long, apex stigmatose terminating in a 

 cone. Ovules oo (in male flower small sterile or 0), inserted on a 

 peltate subglobose placenta. Fruit capsular (small) sub-2-dymous 

 or globose, crowned with calyx, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds oo, 

 small, imbricate, dilated at margin into a suborbicular wing ; embryo 

 small albuminous. — Shrubs generally climbing, glabrous or puberu- 

 lous ; leaves opposite or 3-nate, coriaceous, petiolate ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar, 3-angular-acute ; flowers^ in axillary corymbiform cymes; 

 bracts small or 0; bracteoles 0. (East. trop. African is J) 



170. Manettia Mut.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely polyga- 

 mous ; receptacle obconical or obovoid. Calyx lobes 4, or more rarely 



^ Sometimes (as in Nauclea) deciduous, or 0. 3267.— J. de Cokdem. Jdansonia, x. 356.— B. H. 



= Small, coriaceous. Gen. ii. 36, n. 21. — Baker, FL Maurit. 137. 



' Small, whitish. ^ Small, yellowish, odorous. 



4 C. panictilata Welw. loc. czY.— Hiern, FL ' Spec. 6, 7. Lamk. III. t. 166, fig. 2 {Pade- 



Trop. Afr. iii. 43. ria). — Baker, Fl. Maw. 137.— Balf. p. Journ. 



' Ex Vent. Tabl. ii. 584. — G^urtn. f. Fruct. Linn. Soc. xvi. 13 ; Bot. Rodrig. 44. 



iii. 83, t. 195.— J. Mem. Mus. vi. 385.— Rich. « Mux. L. Mantiss. 558 (17G7).— DC. Prodr, 



Jtub.ldi.—BG. Frodr. vi. 361.— Endl. Gen. n. iv. 362.— Endl. Gm. n. 3266. -B.H. Ge.'i. ii. 



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