414 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



IV. PANCOVIE.^. 



45. Pancovia W. — Flowers irregular polygamo-diœcious ; sepals 

 5, very unequal, imbricate; two exterior smaller. Petals 4 (the 

 fifth place vacant), unequal, furnished above the claw with a cucul- 

 late scale often cristate-appendieulate at the back or apex, imbricate. 

 Stamens 8, interior to unilateral or semilunar unequally lobed disk ; 

 filaments excentric unequal, often pilose ; anthers shortly exsertcd, 

 introrsely 2-rimose. Gormen eccentric, often stipitate,^ 3-lobed or 

 3-locular ; style slender acute, apex stigmatose entire or ob- 

 scurely 3-lobed ; ovule in cell 1, ascendent; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit 1-3-coccous to base ; cocci 1, 2 sometimes abortive 

 minute ; the fertile ones oblong or subcylindrical, sometimes obovoid 

 divaricate, 1-spermous. Seeds ascendent exarillate ; testa mem- 

 branous or crustaeeous ; cotyledons of cxalbuminous embryo straight 

 or arcuate thick ; radicle straight or more rarely curved incumbent. 

 — Erect trees ; leaves and inflorescence tomentose ; leaves alternate 

 exstipulate, and abruptly imjiaripinuate ; leaflets alternate or 

 subopposite ; flowers in terminal ramose compoiind-cymiferous 

 racemes. [Tropical eastern and southern. Asia., Indian Archipelago^ 

 tropical Australia^ tropical western Africa.) See p. 359. 



46 ? Chytranthus Hook, f.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamo-diœcious (nearly of Pancovia) ; calyx urceolate or shortly 

 tubulose; lobes obliquely inserted unequal, slightly imbricate at 

 margin. Petals 4, 5, unequal narrow, at base linear-attenuate 

 obconico-concave ; cavity fm-nished with a subulate slightly exserted 

 process. Stamens 8, 9, interior to irregular disk. Germen and 

 ovules of Pancovia ; style incurved at apex 3-fid ; lobes subulate 

 stigmatose within more or less coadunate and tortuous. Capsule 

 wide, 3-lobed nearly to axis ; lobes more or less compressed ; cells 

 pilose within (tardily 2-valvate ?). Seeds nearly of Pancovia ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo conferruminate ; radicle short 

 inferior. — Small trees ; leaves alternate pinnate ; flowers ^ in fascicu- 

 late racemes oftener springing fi-om the wood tomentose,^ simple or 

 sparingly ramose, alternately cymiferous ; pedicels bracteate. ■■ 

 {Tropical western Africa.^) 



' Oen. 403, n. 40. except by its gamosepalous calyx, the form of 



' White, calyx and bracts reddish. its petals and its fruit. 



■'' The indu Dientum in one species (seen alive) ' Spec. 2. Baker, i?/. Trop. Âfr. i. 429. — H. 



somewhat purplish. Bn. Adansouia, xi. 241. 

 ' A genus scarcely differing from Pancovia 



