polygalace.ï:. 91 



late, lurnislictl with long hairs ; cmbiyo albuminous ; cotyledons 

 orbiculate thin. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate ovate ; flowers ^ in short 

 axiUary few-flowercil racemes. (Trop. W. Àfrlcar) 



9. Trigoniastrum Miq.^ — "Sepals 5, of which two are slightly 

 wider. Petals dissimilar ; the lateral narrowly ungiiiculatc-spathu- 

 late ; keel navicular,* gibbous saccate at base ; 2 at base extrorsely 

 auriculate-semicordate, higher connate at margin, and concealing 

 generative organs. Stamens 5, coalescing in sheath, which is 

 afterwards cut; anthers ellipsoidal, 1-locular, introrsely adnate. 

 Glands (?) ^ 2, subrotuud-lenticular anterior in the neighbourhood of 

 the germen, strictly enclosed in saccate base of keel. Germen 3-locular ; 

 style simi3le ; stigma small ; ovules in cell solitary pendulous Irom 

 vertex. Fruit (by, o-winged, in 3 carpels, samaroid, finally 

 deshiscing inwardly, separating. Seed solitary in cell, pendulous 

 hairy estrophiolate. . . — A shrub " ; leaves alternate, coriaceous, 

 entire ; racemes at apex of branches paniculate ; bracts glandular ^ " 

 (Stimafra, Pcnang.^) 



II. XANTnOPHYLLE.E. 



10. Xanthophyllum Roxb. — Flowers irregular hermaphrodite ; 

 sepals 5, imbricate ; the interior slightly larger. Petals -5, free or 

 connate at base, imbricate ; the posterior 4, rarely unequal ; the 

 anterior (keel) larger cymbiform. Stamens 8, either all fi'ee or 

 cohering in pairs with petals at the base ; anthers introrse 2-locular, 

 shortly rimose at apex. Germen surruiuided at base with annular 

 glandular disk, 1-lociilate ; placentas 2, parietal, laterally more or less 

 prominent ; ovules in each 2-6, descendent or variously oblique ; 

 style incurved, stigraatiferous sub-entire at apex. Fruit globose, 

 coriaceous-fleshy, usually 1-spermous; seed exarillate, exalbuminous ; 

 embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick-fleshy, plano-convex, at apex some- 

 times corrugate-plicate ; radicle short, sub-enclosed between coty- 



' White or yellow. * " Corpuscula 2 " (B. H.). 



* Spec. 2, Benth. JS'ii/cr, 224. — Oliv. F/. ^ Scandens ? 



Trop. Afr. i. 135.— Walp. Rep. i. 247 (Spec. ? Char, ex B. H foe. cU. 



3, 4). 8. Spec. 1. T. hi/poliucum Miq. loij. c!t.- 



' Fl. Iiid.-Bat. iiappl. i. 394.— B. H. Gi-ii. \UmK. t. F/. Jirif. Jud.i. 208.— Jsoplens peua,. 



139, n. 10.— Impteris Wall. Cat. n. 7201. //iniin AVall. loe. cit. 



* "Postica?" (B.H.). 



