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Avliicli five shorter are superposed to the petals. Theii- filaments 

 are united below iuto a short tube, with five alteruipetalous angles 

 sometimes thickeueil, as in the Flaxes, into elongate glands ; after- 

 wards they separate, and each bears above, a bilocular, introrse anther, 

 dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. The ovary is formed of five 

 alteruipetalous cells, more rarely of four or three, surmounted by a 

 like number of style branches, capitate stigmatiferous at the apex. 

 In the internal angle of each cell are seeu two descendent ovules, 

 generally collateral with exterior micropyle surmounted usually by 

 a thick obturator. The fruit is a drupe enclosing from three to five 

 mono- or dispermous stones. The seeds are generally compressed, 

 and contain under their coats a fleshy albumen, surrounding a 

 straight or arched embryo, with short superior radicle. Hurjonia 

 consists of shrubs, often climbing, from all tropical regions, with 

 alternate simple penuinerved leaves accompanied by entire or slashed 

 stipules. The flowers are generally in terminal ramified racemes com- 

 posed of ebracteate cymes. As a rule also the lower divisions of the 

 inflorescence, one or two in number, are transformed into a thick hook 

 recurved below and rolled spirally. In certain species of Hugoiiia^ i^rin- 

 cipally natives of tropical Africa, the flowers are united in the axils 

 of the leaves into very short racemes or spikes, simple or ramified. 

 It is so in Bouchcria,^ recently ascribed ^ to the genus Ilugonia^ and 

 of which three species are known, two fi-om tropical America, the 

 other from tropical Asia. The flowers are accompanied by unequal 

 bracts of variable number, analogous to the sepals but. smaller. 



In some Hiigonias fi-om Xew Caledonia, recently described under 

 the name of Pcnkillanthemum^ the stems are generally nat climbing 

 as in lioHcheria, the sepals are obtuse and the inflorescence destitute 

 of hooks at the base. The same characters are found in Suvcotheca 

 mucrophjlla^^ a slirub from the Indian Ai-chipelago which ought, it 



Loud. Jouni. fii. 524.— B. H. Gen. 243, 987, n. 2-15, n. 10 ;— W.u.r. Ann. n. 137), to which uni- 



5. — H. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 396 ; in Adiin- ovulate cells may en-oneously have been attri- 



so«i«, X. 36-1. — JEgotocerns Ray (ex Adaxs.). butcd, the two collateral ovules being very near 



iVh.\a Hijolc. Lone!. Jonrii. \i. \i\,t. 2. — B. each other and united above by a common 



H. Gen. 243, 987, n. 6. obturator. 



= F. MuELL. J^raym. V. 7. ■< Bl. J/rts. LucUj.-JSat. i. 241.— B. H. Gen. 



^Y\-B,u,h. va. Bull. Soc. Lin». Normand, x. 94. 245, n. U. — H. Bx. in Adansonia, x. 364. 



— B. H. <?«i. 987. — H. Bn. in4rfaHS(»««, X. 364. Walp. Ann. ii. 137. — Somheria macrophylJa 



We believe that one of these i'fôiicW/awîÂt'm»» is Mia. Fl. Ind.-lSat. i, p. ii. 136. Walp. Ann. 



Durandca (Pl. loc. cit. vii. 527 ; — B. H. Gen. vii. 462. 



