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otherwise inserted on the branches of the axillary or lateral raceme. 

 Trop. America}). 



44. Emmotum Desvx.' — Flowers nearly oî Poraqiieiba {or Mapjna), 

 usually 5-merous ; perianth and stamens of Poraqueiba ; connective of 

 erect lanceolate anthers rather wide. Germen 3-locular; cells 1- 

 lateral subiDarallel ; ovules descendent (of 3Iappia)^ 2 in each cell 

 or in the middle cell 2, in the lateral 1 ; style short or rather long 

 stigmatiferous at apex truncate or dilated. Drupe usually subglobose ; 

 putamen osseous, 1-3-locular ; seed (in each cell usually 1) albumi- 

 nous ; cotyledons of curved embryo foliaceous rather short ; radicle 

 longer. — Glabrous or ofteuer tomentellose or silky or shining trees ; 

 leaves alternate entire coriaceous peunincrved elevate-nerved ; 

 flowers collected in cymes or densely ramified contracted glomerules 

 axillary or lateral to axils. {Trop. America.^) 



45. Lasianthera Pal. Beauv.'' — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous (nearly of Mappici) ; calyx short cupular ; shortly 5- 

 lobed or dentate, imbricated. Petals 5 , valvate. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments hypogynous, more or less cohering with 

 petals, attenuate at apex, or oftener the apex introrsely excavate 

 and receiving more or less pendulous anther cells, either glabrous or 

 shortly pilose ( Gomphandra) ° or very long pencillate ; hairs 

 crowded long and often capitellate, in estivation inflèxed above 

 anther {EulasiantJiera); cells of introrse anthers longitudinally 

 rimose, either nearly quite adnate within to connective or fi:ee below. 

 Germen free 1-locular, naked at base or sometimes furnished with 

 a large basilar gland ; style apical short, afterwards stigmatiferous 

 dilated sometimes wide discoidal ; ovules collateral 2, (of Mappid). 

 Drupe oblong or compressed, longitudinally sulcate and nerved, 

 straight or incurved ; fiesh usually scanty ; putamen crustaceous 

 ligneous or fibrous ; albumen of descendent seed fleshy, undivided or 2- 

 partite ; ^ embyro apical minute. — Trees, often glabrous ; leaves alter- 



' Spec. 2, 3. Speeng. Syst. i. 583 (Barreria). i. 636.— Endl. Qen. n. 4671.— B. H. Qen. 350, 



Walp. Ann. vii. 568. n. 16. — H. Bx. Adaiisonia, xi. 191. — Stemomirus 



2 Ham. Prodr. Ft. Ind. Occ. 29.— Miers Bl. ^yrf)-. 648.— Exdl. Ge». n. 5496.— Miers, 



Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, iv. 366 ; Contrih. i. 106, Contrib. i. 80, t. 13-15.— ;7/-a«*-» ÏHW. Sook. 



229, t. 21, 22.— B. H. Gct. 352, n. 25.— H. Bn. Knojourn. vii. 2\\. — Mcdusanthera Seem. 



Adaiisonia, ii. t. 9, &g: 3, 4 ; iii. 94, 380.— Juurn. of Bot. ii. 74. 



Pogopetalum Benth. Trans, Linn, Soc. xviii. 5 Wall. ex. Lindl. Nat. St/tt. ed. 2, 439. — 



684, 12. Endi. Gen. n. 5497.— B. H. Gen. n. 17. 



' Spec, about 5. Walp. Ann. vii. 568. « Whence simulating 2 wide cotyledons. 



^ Fl. Owar. et Ben. i. 85, t. 51. — DC. Piodr. 



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