194 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



late integeiTimous, coriaceous, penninervod ; flowers female, axillary 

 solitary vcrticillate pedunculate.- {New CaledoniaJ) 



32. Fontainea Heck.^ — Flowers diœeious or more rarely monoe- 

 cious (nearly of Codiaum or Jlj)handia); calyx gamophyllous sacciform 

 very shortly 4-5-dentate at apex, valvate, sometimes unequally 

 broken. Petals ■* 3, 6, imbricate. Stamens co , central (of C'odiaum), 

 exterior of base surrounded by continuous 4-6-agoual disk ; anthers 

 cxtrorsely rimose ; cells adnate to linear connective or more or less 

 high discrote at apex. Calyx of female flowers valvate, unequally 

 broken. Petals as in male flower. Disk hypogynous continuous 

 surrounding base of gyneeceum ; germen 3-6-locular; cells (when 

 equal in number) oppositipetalous ; style afterwards divided into 

 branches, same in number, rather thick, stigmatiferous within ; ovules 

 solitary ; micropyle obtected by short obturator. Fruit drupaceous, 

 suboliviform or obtuse angular ; putamen osseous ; cells 2-6 ; 1 (or 

 rarely 2, 3), usually fertile, others small efl'ete. Seeds exarillate gla- 

 brous ; albumen copious oily ; cotyledons of central embryo foliaceous 

 elliptical many times wider than terete radicle. — A shrub or tree, small 

 leaves alternate or subopposite, petiolate, exstijmlate, glaberrimous ; 

 entire penninerved reticulate-veined ; flowers axillary and terminal 

 falsely racemose, more or less cymose bracteate. (New Caledonia^') 



33. Givotia Griff.^ — Flowers (nearly of Cod'mum) diœeious; sepals 

 5 and petals same in number alternate, imbricated. Stamens co 

 (sometimes 15-20), inserted round convex glandular-thickened re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments erect ; anthers adnate, introrsely and extrorsely 

 rimose. Perianth and disk of female flowers as in the male. Ger- 

 mon 2, 3-locular ; cells 1-ovnlate ; style afterwards 2-3-fid ; branches 

 2-fid. Fruit fleshy indéhiscent destitute of columella, by abortion 1- 

 spornious ; seed exarillate copiously albuminous ; cotyledons of 

 wide embryo foliaceous, digitinerved at base — A tree ; ^ densely 

 covered with stellate indumentum ; leaves alternate petiolate digiti- 



' A genus whose place is uncertain, the ' Spec. 1. F. Pancheri Heck. loc. cit. — 



male flowers heing unknown, but probably Biiloyhia'i Pancheri H. Bn. in Adaiisoiiia, ii. 



near Onr/ianm, diSeia'by its apetalous eglandular 214. — Codiœiim ? Pancheri M. Arg. Prodr. 1117. 



flowers and vcrticillate leaves. « PI, Mori. Calcult. 14.— Endl. Gen. n. 5802 



2 Spec. 2. H. Bn. loc. cit. 88. (Suppl, v. 89).— H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 389.— M. Arg. 



3 And upon Fontainea (thés. Fac. Méd. de Prodr. 1112.— Oovaina Wall. Cat. n. 7851. 

 MontpeU. 1870). — H. Bn. in Adansmiia, xi. 80. 7 Aspect of Echinus Sumbavia, scarcely difier- 



* Thick subcoriaceous, silky on both sides, ing by non-capsular fruit, 

 white, very fragrant. 



