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branches of inflorescence linear-compressed and striate narrow 

 fasciate ; one side naked, the other bearing crowded few-flowered 

 alternately 2-seriate sessile glomerules.^ (Guiana.'-') 



48 ? Desmostachys Pl.^ — Flowers nearly of Lasianthera ; petals 

 linear, valvate. Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform or rather compressed, 

 glabrous or very shortly pilose ; anthers introrso, oblong oi- globose- 

 2-dymous. Germen surrounded at base with disk 5-lobed between 

 filaments, 2 -ovulate ; style slender, capitellate or truncate at apex. 

 Fruit ? — Scandent shrubs ; leaves entire or sinuate, membranaceous 

 or coriaceoiis ; flowers small (articulate) in slender elongated inter- 

 rupted spikes, terminal and solitary or axillary fasciculate.* (Trop. 

 West. Africa.! Malania.^) 



49. Apodytes E. Met." — Flowers nearly of Lasianthera ; calyx 

 small, 5-dentate. Petals glabrous, valvate. Stamens 5, alternating 

 with petals shortly coherent or free ; anthers introrse dorsifixed, at 

 base or on both sides 2-lobed. Germen free, naked at base, incrassate 

 or on both sides glandular-appendiculate ; style excentric or 

 oblique, whence sulcate and at base foveolate, afterwards on account 

 of unequally accrescent subanatropous gerraen more or less lateral 

 or finally subbasilar, scarcely or not at all capitellate stigmatiferous 

 at apex; ovules 2, collaterally descendent or subsuperposed; micropyle 

 introrse superior. Drupe subbaccate oblique, often compressed anat- 

 ropous (finally apex subbasilar), at base naked or on both sides fleshy- 

 appendiculate ; putamen crustaceous or ligneous. Seed finally (from 

 the anatropy of the pericarp) more or less ascendent ; albumen 

 copious fleshy ; radicle of minute embryo (in the fruit apical) finally 

 inferior or lateral. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate entire pen- 

 ninerved coriaceous ; flowers ^ in corymbiform ramified cymiferous 

 clusters terminal or axillary. (Asia and trop Africa.^) 



' A genus, it would seem, closely allied to 5488-. — Miers, An». Nat. Eist. sér. 2, ix. 387 ; 



Lasianthera and Krummcria, its place in the Contrib. i. 56, t. 5. — H. Bx. Adansonia, iii. 



order from its unknown fruit somewhat un- 372. — p Nothapodijtes Bl. Miis. Liuj'J.-Bnt. i. 



certain, from its inflorescence analogous to 248. — Eaphiostylis Pl. Boole. Niger. 259, t. 28. 



some Artocarpns. — Miers, Ann. Nat. Hist. he. cit. 390 ; Contrib. 



' Spec. 1. P. Jrtocarpi H. Bn. foe. eit. 201. i. 59, t. 6.— H. Bn. Adansmia, iii. 90. 



3 MiEBS, Ann. Nat. Bist. sér. 2, ix. 398 ; ' Usually small, whitish. 



Contrib. i. 68, t. 9.— B. H. Gen. 350, n. 18. * Spec, about 10. Wight, lean. t. 1153.— 



< A genus whose place is uncertain from its Hook. f. Book. Icon. t. 77S — Benth. Trans. 



unknown fruit, seemingly near Lmianthera. Linn. fine, xviii. 683, t. 41. — Oliv. FI, Trop. 



' Spec. 3. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 353. Afr. i. 335.— Walp. Ann. vii. 567. 



" Akn. Book. Journ. iii. 155. — Endl. Oen. n. 



