420 NATURAL HISTORY OF RLANTS. 



2-rimose. Germen subcentric, 4-5-loMilar; cells oppositipetalous, 

 1 -ovulate ; style elongate curved, at apex stigmatose more or less 

 obpyramidal ; micropyle of ascendent sub-basilar ovule extrorsely 

 inferior.! Capsule coriaceous or ligneous, loculicidally 4-5-valvate; 

 valves in the middle septiferous within; embryo albuminous straight; 

 radicle inferior. Seeds arill ate. — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate 

 iraparipinnate ; leaflets entire or serrulate ; stipules intra-petiolate 

 ii-nate, connate at base ; flowers in simple terminal or lateral racemes. 

 {Tropical and Southern Africa?) 



71. Greyia Hook, and Harv.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, 

 orbiculate, imbricate persistent. Petals 5, perigynous, imbricate, 

 deciduous. Disk cupular crowned with 10 staminodes glanduliferous 

 at apex. Stamens 10, inserted within the disk; filaments filiform 

 subdeelinate far exserted; anthers ovate, 2-dymous. Gormen oblong 

 deeply 5-sulcate, from the placcntiferous introflexed margins of the 

 carpels semi-5-locular, attenuated to a slender style slightly stigma- 

 tose at apex; ovules oo, 2-seriate in parietal placentas. Capsule 

 membranous, septicidally folliculately 5-partite, Seeds œ, minute ; 

 testa membranous ; embryo at base of fleshy albumen minute." — 

 Small trees ; wood soft ; leaves * alternate petiolate exstipulate cor- 

 dately subrotund duplicately crenate or sublobate glabrous glandu- 

 lose; " flowers '^ in dense axillary racemes." {South Africa.^') 



VII? AITONIE^. 



72. Aitonia L. r. — Flowers hermajjhroditc regular, 4-merous; 

 sepals connate at base, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4, alternate, 

 much longer ; in prsefloration imbricate or oftenor tortuous. Stamens 

 8, inserted under small crenate disk ; filaments at base 1-adelphous 

 connate in a tube, afterwards free exserted filiformly subulate ; 

 anthers oblong introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free, sub-4-lobate ; style 



' Funicle short erect, sometimes (at least in ' Proc. Dull. Ui.iv. Zuol. and Bot. Ass, i. 138, 



1 species) more or less dilated, hence closing the t. 13, 14. 

 mycropyle. ■• Somewhat recalling those of Fnmcon. 



- Spec. 4. A. Kick. Fl. Abyss. Tint. i. 107, t. * Scarlet showy. 



26.— Pl. F!iger, 252, t. 29 (Xut(i}i<i).— \\kv.y. " Spec. 1. G. Sutlurlmidi HorK. and IIaev. 



and .SoN'D. Fl. Cap. i. 3G9 {Xalalin). —Hakek, — Hakv. T/ics. Cap. t. 1 ; F/. Cap. ii. 308.— 



FL Trop. Afr. i. 433. "Walp. Ann. vii. 911 [Saxifrag.). 



