TEREBINTHACE^. 335 



Villaresia) ; sepals 5, unequal, closely imbricated, decurrent-glan- 

 dulose below. Petals 5, longer than calyx, free, imbricated, inflexed 

 at apex and coalescing into a corolla spuriously gamopetalous and 

 calyptrate cut. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments bypogynous 

 fi'ee subulate ; cells of introrse antbers 2, free obliquely de- 

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

 attenuated at apex into an arcbed style inwardly sulcate ; summit of 

 style unequally- cap itellate stigmatiferous ; ovules 2, collateral ; back 

 of germen vertically produced between tbe ovules into a narrow 

 spurious septum. Fruit drupaceous oblong-ovoid, stipate witb non- 

 accrescent persistent calyx ; placenta intruded witbin ; seed hence 

 inwardly deeply sulcate ; albumen fiesliy copious ; embryo minute 

 apical. — A bumble or scandent glabrous sbrub ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, penninerved veined coriaceous ; flowers in terminal elon- 

 gated simple or scantily ramified cymiferous racemes ; cymes pedun- 

 culate scorpoid.^ (i\^. Caledonia^-) 



58. Cassinopsis Sond.^ — Flowers bermapbrodite ; lobes of gamo- 

 phyllous calyx more or less deep, imbricated. Petals 5, at base sub- 

 coberuig together and with the stamens, fi-ee, imbricated, finally 

 reflexed-patulous at apex. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments 

 hypogynously inserted ; anthers subovate, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen 1-locular, 2-ovulate, attenuated into a short conical style sub- 

 obliquely capitellate-stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit drujjaceous shortly 

 ovoid compressed apiculate ; putamen crustaceous ; embryo of albumi- 

 nous seed apical minute. — Glabrous shrubs ; * twigs slender, some- 

 times armed with thin axillary spines ; leaves opposite, entii'e or 

 serrate, glabrous ; flowers in 2-parous axillary and pedunculate 

 cymes. [3Iadagascar^ South AfrlcaJ') 



59. GrisoUea H. Bn.^ — Flowers diœcious ; male calyx 5-partite, 

 valvate; folioles not quite contiguovis. Petals 0. Stamens 5, opposite 

 sepals ; filaments short glabrous inserted under the conical rudiment 

 of the gynteceum subglandulous at the base hollow laciniate fimbriate 



' A genus closely allied to Villaresia {pî which known, often enumerated among the ///ci«< as. 

 perhaps it would be better considered a section) ^ Spec. 2, of which one is Cape. Hochst. 



valde affine. Kraiiss Bertr. 42 [Hurtotjia). — Tuncz. Hull. 



* Spec. 1. S. sannentosum H. Bn. he. eit. Mosc. (1858), 455 [Cassine). — H. Bn. Adaiisoiiia, 

 ' Fl. Cap. 1, 473. — B. H. Gen. 354, xi. 180, n. 83.— W alp. Ann, \-ii. 569. 



n. 30. ^ Adansonia, iv. 2U, t. 3, 4 ; x. 266.— B. H. 



* Habit of Celastracea, A genus imperfectly Gen, 997, n, 30 a. 



