422 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



indéhiscent (?). Seeds " compressed-globose exarillate." — Glabrous 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate fastigiate at the top of the branches impari- 

 pinnate ; petiole winged ; flowers ^ in more or less corymbose 

 racemes ''"'. {South Africa, 3ïadacascar,^) 



63. Cossignia Commers.^ — riowers polygamous irregular ; sepals 

 5, subequal, imbricate. Petals 4, esquamate, imbricate, sometimes 

 shorter than the calyx. Disk very irregular, excentric posticous. 

 Stamens 5-8, anterior to disk hypogynous. Germen sessile, anterior 

 to disk, 3-locular ; style simple ; apex stigmatose obtuse or sub- 

 capitate ; ovules in cells 2, 3, finally oblique or sub -transverse. 

 Capsule globose, 3-lobed, sometimes inflated submembranous [Har- 

 pulliopsis ''), loculicidal ; valves oftener finally solute from axis. 

 Seeds in cells 1-3, exarillate ; testa crustaceous ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo more or less convolute. — Shrubs sometimes 

 cinereo-tomentose ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leafiets opposite 

 entii-e; flowers in terminal often racemose-corymb if orm cymiferous 

 racemes.''' {Mascarene Islands, Malacassia.^) 



64 ? Loxodiscus Hook, f.^ — Flowers polygamous irregular ; 

 sepals 5, unequal, very imbricate, at margin glandulose-fimbriate. 

 Petals 5, unequal; the fifth often less than the others, or 4, shortly 

 nnguiculate, pilose, imbricate or contorted. Disk excentric posticous 

 compressed-subcupular, higher at the back and unequally crenate. 

 Stamens 7,8, subcentric, anterior to disk ; filaments free declinate ; 

 anthers oblong, introrsely 2-rimose, Germen as regards the stamens 

 central (in male flower rudimentary) stipitate, 3-gonal ; cells 3 (2 of 

 which are posterior) ; style subulate, at apex stigmatose simple. 

 Ovules in cells 2, inserted at the middle of the internal angle ; one 

 ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior ; the other descendent ; 

 micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit capsular membranous, 3-gonal, 

 loculicidally 3-valvate ; seeds (immature) arillate at base. — A glabrous 

 shrub ; leaves alternate, exstipulate imparipinnate ; petiole marginate 



1 "Testa purple.'' Mém. Mus. xviii. 33. — Endl. Gen. n. 5623. — B. 



= Red or white, appearing early. H. Gen. 397, n. 17.— Baker, Fl. Manrit. Ô8. 



^ A genus by the character of its perianth " II. Bn. Adaiisoiiia, xi. 248. 



and androceum recalling some Cresalpinieas. ^ A genus very near to Eiythrophysa, hav- 



■> Spec. 2. of which one has a very excentric ing apparently the irregular form of EarjniUia ; 



gynœoeum, viz. E. tmdulata E. Mey. loc. cit.— fruit in a species from Madagascar inflato- 



Habv. & SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 238.— W alp. Rep. i. vesioulose. 



411 (Enjthrophilu); Ann. \\{. 623. Spec. alt. ^ Spec. 2, 3. 



madagascar. H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 239. ' Hook. Keiv Mini. ix. 200 t. 6.— B. H. Gen 



s Ex. J. Oeii. 248.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 132; 398, n. 20. 

 III. t. 256.— DC. Prodi: i. 614.— Gambess 



