244 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



merous ; male calyx imbricated, sometimes various cornered and 

 more or less angular from pressure more rarely very small subnil or 0. 

 Stamens usually 2, or more rarely 3-5, inserted round rudiment of 

 gynseceum minute (or 0) ; filaments free ; anthers introrse or 

 subiutrorse ; cells short adnate, usually subglobose, longitu- 

 dinally rimose. Female flowers 2-5-merous. Germen sessile, 2-3- 

 locular ; style short, afterwards divided into 2, or 3 lobes 

 variously 2-fid dilated revolure, inwardly decidedly lacinulate-papil- 

 lose, ovules in cells 2, collaterally descendent ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior and thickly obturated. Fruit usually thick finally partly 

 opening like a capsule ; cocci 2, 3, or by abortion, 1-2-spermous ; 

 seeds copiously albuminous ; radicle of straight embryo much thinner 

 than foliaceous cotyledons.— Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate entire or repando-dentate penninerved ; petiole sometimes 

 2-glaudular at apex ; flowers in densely imbricated-braeteate spikes ; 

 bracts 1-3 or more rarely oc-flowered 2-bracteolate. (Trop. Asia 

 and Oceania.^) 



130? Cometia Dur.-Tn." — Flowers (nearly of Jporosa) diœcious, 

 3-5-merous ; calyx imbricated, sometimes unequal in bud from com- 

 pression. Stamens 3-5 ; filaments inserted below erect rudiment of 

 gynceceum, dilated at apex ; anthers introrsely rimose, obtuse at 

 apex. Female calyx. ... ? Germen exceutric 1-locular ; style 

 from base dilated suborbicular excentric rather fleshy papillose- 

 stigmatiferous above. Ovules in cell 2, collaterally descendent; 

 micropyle extrorse superior thickly obtiu'ated. Fruit ckupaceous ; 

 endocarp hard ; mesocarp fleshy thick. Seed usually 1, exarillate ; 

 cotyledons of copiously albuminous embryo foliaceous.^ — Small 

 glabrous trees ; leaves alternate petiolate entire penninerved ; male 

 flowers in amenta glomerate at the axils of the leaves ; bracts of 

 amcutiun crowded strictly imbricated, 1-3-flowered ; female flowers 

 few in terminal axillary racemes.^ {Malacassia.^) 



Endl. Gen. n. 1897.— Pi,, in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 316.— M. Arg. in Linnœa, .xxxii. 78.— H. Bn. 



4, ii. 265.— ScHNizL. Icon. fasc. 6— H, Bn. in in Adansonia, xi. 17. 



Jinll. Soc. Bot. de Fr. iv. (1857), 9gZ.-Lepido. 2 Ex H. Bn. Euphorb. 642.-M. Ako. Prodr. 



slachijs LiNDL. JVat. Syst. loc. fi<.— Endl. Qen. n. 444. 



1897.— TuL. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, .xv. 253.— 3 ^ genus very nearly alUed to Aporosa (of 



B..-BN.iXiBullSoc.Bot.deF):n.9^i.—Tctrac. which it would be better made a section), 



tmostigma Hassk. Hort. Bog. ed. nov. 55 ; in differing especially by its 1-locular germen 



Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 714. (always f) i.e., in the same way as Hemicyclia 



1 Spec. ^ about 20.— Roxn. Fl Ind. iii. 580 from Cyclostemon & Antidesma from Hieronyma, 



{Ali!iis).~'tHVf. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 288,— Wight also by its drupaceous and quite indéhiscent 



Icon. t. 361 (-S«/)o),— MiQ. Fl.-Ind. Bat. i. p. fruit. 



ii. S62; Suppl, 471 (re/TOc/!«(,s(i>»na),— Hassk. «Spec. 2, imperfectly known. H. Bn. in 



Ilorl Bog. cd. nov. i. 59.— Benth. Fl. Uongk. Adansonia, ii. 55. 



