.SAPtKDAOE^E. 399 



imbricated or subvalvate. Petals equal in mimber to sepals 

 (or 0), lined with scales or hairs, more rarely naked, imbricated. 

 Stamens (sterile in female flower) 8 (or more rarely 5-7, or 9-12, 

 interior to complete annular, entire or crenate, glabrous or pilose 

 disk ; filaments short, rather longer or much elongate- exser ted ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen central (rudimentary in male 

 flower) often substipitate ; style terminal, divided at apex into short 

 stigmatiferous lobes or teeth equal in number to cells ; cells in germen 

 3, more rarely 2 or 4; ovule in each 1, ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Capsule subsessile or stipitate, obovate, obcordate or 2-4- 

 agonal, 2-4-lobed, sometimes coriaceous or subfleshy ; lobes connate 

 or subfree, divaricate or cymbiform, loculicidal or more rarely solute 

 from axis, glabrous or sometimes setose within. Seeds suberect ; testa 

 coriaceous, glabrous, more or less highly arillate at base, sometimes 

 more rarely naked ; cotyledons of exalbuminovis embryo thick fleshy, 

 plano-convex straight or curved ; radicle short incurved. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, abruptly or imparipinnate ; folioles (usually 

 entu-e) alternate or opposite ; flowers in subsimple or more or less 

 (sometimes much) ramified compound-cymiferous racemes. (JU hot 

 regions}) 



14. Eriocœlum Hook, .tun.- — Flowers polygamous-diœeious re- 

 gular, 5-merous; sepals 5, valvate. Petals 0, or 5, alternate small, 

 dilated within in scales sometimes subpeltate ciliate larger than limb. 

 Disk annular duplex, outwardly 8-10 -crenate ; interior plate longer 

 than exterior, enlarged inside with 8-10 radiant ribs. Stamens 8-1 

 interior to disk; filaments far exserted; anthers small, introrsely 2- 

 rimose. Germen in male flower rudimentary central strigose-pilose. 

 Pemale flower. . . ? " Capsule coriaceous hispid, loculicidal 3-valved ; 

 cells inwardly lanuginoiis, 1-spermous." — Strigose trees ; leaves al- 

 ternate abruptly jjinnate ; folioles 2-4-jugate subopposite entire ; 

 flowers in axillary simple or ramified glomeruliferous racemes. 

 ( Trap. West. Africa?) 



' Spec, about 80. H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. Afr. i. 425, 426 {Bligliia).—ll. Bn. Adaumiia, 



V.124.— A.S.H. Ji!. i(ra.s. jl/fr. i. S85,t. 79.— A. xi. 246.— Panch. & Seu. Bois. N.-Cnléd. 230 



Rich. C«J. t. 31, 32 (ie«<o«Jff).— Labill. &r<. t. (part.).— Walp. Rep. i. 418; ii. 81.5 ; v. 363 ; 



73.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 125; Cat. PI. Aim. ii. 214; iv. 379 (part.); vii. 625, 627 



Cub. 45 — Tk. etPi/. Aim. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, xviii. [Ratonia). 



3Ti.—Bh.Ri(mphia,nn57.—'!>lm.Fl.I«d.-But. 2 Gen. iOO, n. 26. 



i. p. ii. 686 ; Suppl. i. 509.— Benth. Fl. Am- 3 Spec. 2. Baker, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 427. 

 tral. i. 457, 460 (iîatonîff).- Baker, Fl. Trop. 



