332 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



50. Anisomallon H. Bn.I— Flowers (nearly of Apodytcs) horma- 

 phi-odite ; calyx short, 5-dentate. Petals 5, 3-angular thick, valvate ; 

 ribs inwardly laminiform vortical very prominent, fi"ee acute villulose 

 aboveanddividingthepetalsinto2hollows, each nestling a cavity of the 

 anther. Stamens 6, alternipetalous ; filaments subulate coaduuate and 

 alternating with petals ; cells of introrse anthers distinct, pendulous 

 from connective, longitudinally rimose. Germen 1-locular, furnished 

 at base with uni-lateral disk ; ovules 2, collateral (of Mappia) ; style 

 subulate subexcentric. Fruit drupaceous ; sarcocarp thin ; finally 

 quite inverted subhorizontal, unequally 2-lobed subdidyraous ; one 

 lobe remaining accrescent from drupe, the other from fleshy disk 

 adnate to apex of a true bacciform fruit ; albumen of subhorizontal 

 seed copious fleshy ; embryo minute apical. — A remarkable glabrous 

 tree ; leaves at extremities of twigs alternate petiolate oblong-elliptic 

 or obovatc entire coriaceous thick delicately penninerved ; flowers ^ 

 in ramose pedunculate cymes subaxillary to uppermost leaves of 

 twigs, articulate at concave base. [New Caledonia.^) 



51. Pennantia FoRST.' — Flowers polygamo-diœcious ; calyx very 

 small, dentate or annular, sometimes wanting. Petals 5, valvate. 

 Stamens 5 alternate ; filaments inserted under the small rudiment 

 of the gynseceum, 2 -plicate below apex, affixed to back of introrse 

 anthers. Disk minute or scarcely visible. Germen 1-locular ; style 

 short, stigmatose to entire or radiate-3-lobed apex ; ovule 1, de- 

 scending ; micropyle introrsely superior. A drupe ; putamen osseous 

 or coriaceous obliquely pervious at funicle a little below the apex ; 

 seed albuminous ; cotyledons of the very short subapiculate embryo 

 ovate, a little wider at terete radicle. — Trees ; leaves alternate 

 entire or coarsely dentate ; flowers in terminal ramose-corymbiform 

 cymes. ( Oceania.^) 



52. Leptaulus Benth.'' — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx deeply 

 5-lobed, imbricate. Corolla gamopctalous ; long {Euleptaidus) or 

 more shortly [Brachyaiilus) tubular ; lobes valvate, inflexed at apex, 



' Adaiisom'n, xi. 195. ■'■Spec. 3, of which one is Australian, A. Rich. 



- For the order rather large. Fl. N.-Zel. 368.— Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norfolk, 



'■^ Spec. 1. A. clusiœfolimn H. Bn. loc. cit. 80; Iconogt-. t. 121. — A. Cvnti. Ann. Nat. Bid. 



^ Char. Oeii. 133, t. 67.— J. Oen. 428.— iii. 248.— Reiss. ii««œa, xvi. t. 12, 13.— HooK. 



XiAMK. Ill t. 854.— PoiR. Diet. y. 152.— Endl. r. Fl. N.-Zel. i. 34, t. 12 ; Man. N.-Zeal.Fl. 41, 



&■«. n. 5754.— MiEKs, ^«H. Aai!. .ff/s;. ser. 2, 726.— Benth. 11. Austral, i. 395.— "Walp. 



ix. 490; Contrib.i. 73, t. 11, 12.— B. H. Gen. ^««. i. 568. 



361,11. 21.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 86, 379; » Oen. 351, n. 19.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 



X. 2 60. 374 ; x. 2C4. 



