404 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germon 5-lociilar or more rarclj {Malleasf rum ^) few or 1-locvilar; 

 style erect, subclavate to apex ; top of apex shortly lobate stigmatosc ; 

 ovules in cells 2, descendent ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Drupe 

 oftener but slightly fleshy ; pyrenjc 1-5, subcartilaginous, 1-2-sper- 

 mous. Seeds subangular ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of curved 

 embryo oblong ; radicle superior. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate ; imparipiuuate or 3-foliolate ; leaflets opposite entire or 

 coarsely serrate ; the terminal larger ; flowers in more or less ramose 

 cymes axillary or lateral to uppermost branches. ( Tropical Asia and 

 Oceania^' Alalacca?) 



3. Munronia Wight.* — Flowers 5-merous ; sepals subfoliaceous 

 rather large, persistent, imbricate. Petals adnate to each other and 

 to staminal tube infundibuliform to middle, free above, patent. 

 Stamens 10 ; tube cylindrical, free above, lO-dentate at apex ; 

 anthers alternate with teeth of tube, silky appendiculate, iutrorsely 

 rimose. Disk membranous-tubulose, sheathing the germen and base 

 of style. Germen ovoid ; style elongate slender, stigmatose capitellate 

 at apex. Oviiles 2 in each of 5 oppositipetalous cells, superposed 

 descendent; micropyle extrorsely superior. Capsule depressed 

 globose subcoriaceous loculicidal ; lobes and cells 5 ; valves solute 

 from 5-alate columella. Seeds in cells 1, 2, plano-convex ; hilura 

 ventral depressed ; margins incurved alate ; cotyledons of slightly 

 albuminous embryo plane rotundate ; radicle short. — Small under- 

 shrubs ; stork short simple; leaves alternate, imparipiuuate or 3- 

 foliolate ; leaflets opposite, entire or dentate ; flowers ^ in axillary 

 few-flowered often subcapitate cymes; pedicels 2-bracteolate. 

 {Eastern India, Indian Archipelago.^') 



4. Naregamia Wight and Aen.^ — Flowers nearly of Munronia ; 

 calyx cupular, 5-fid, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, fi'ee elon- 

 "■ate, imbricate or contorted. Stamens 5 ; tube cylindrical, free 

 from petals, inflato-clavate to apex, ,5 -dentate at summit; each 



1 H. Bn. Adansonia, ^i. 105 (Malagasli » Spec. 3, 4. Wall. P^.^î. iJ«»-. t. 113 (Twr- 



• ^ rœa). — Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1413 {Tarrœa). — 



'^rspcc. atout 4. Roth, Nov. Spec. 218 {Mdia). Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 176, 180, t. 38 ; Ann. Sc. 



_Ro^B M. A. Juss. loc. cit. {Ekebe>-!/U,).- A'rrf. sér 2, xv. 83.-Lem. /<r;rf. Fte»-. iv. t. 360. 



Wight and AiiN.Prorfr.i. 118 (A/«;fc«).-Mia. -Habsk. Tijdsch: Nat. Qcsck. x. 138; Cut. 



Fl Tnd.-Bat. i. p. ii. 533.— KuRZ, Flora (1870) Bort. Bog. 219.-Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



340 (Mallea).-WAi.v. Rep. i. 428 {Mallea). 634.— Tiiw. Fnnm. PI. Zeyl. .59.-H. Bu. 



3 H. Bn. Adanmua, xi. 255. Adau.onia, .xi. 2C6.-WALr. Rep. i. 426 ; Ann. 



* lU i 147, t. 54 ; Icon. t. 90.— EndL. Gen. iv. 386. 



n. 5518'.-B. H. Oen. 331, n. 6. <> ^™*-- 116.-EndL. Gen. n. 5ol8.-B. H. 



* Whito ; corolla deciduous. <'^"- •^^l, n. 5. 



