ME LIAGES. 495 



tooth bearing an exserted erect introrse anther surmounting the silky 

 subulate point of the connective. Gynceceum nearly of 3funronta ; 

 germen o-locular, girt with annular disk ; style filiform, apex 

 stigmatose capitate ; ovules in cells 2, descendent curved, laterally 

 alate ; hilum ventral ; testa crustaceous rugose ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons of curved embryo oblong plane, equal in length to supe- 

 rior terete radicle. — A small ramose glabrous shrub ; leaves alter- 

 nate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets cuneate obovate obtuse ; petiole alate ; 

 flowers axillary solitary pedunculate. {Eastern India}) 



5. Quivisia Commers.- — Calyx cupular, persistent, teeth 4, or 

 sometimes (Ginnania^) 5, more rarely 4-8 [Vavœa^). Petals same 

 in number longer, somewhat thicker, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 

 8-10 or rarely 11-30 (Vainva); filaments connate in cyathiform or 

 sub-campanulate tube sometimes glandulose within ( Vavœa). 

 Germen sessile ; cells 4, 5, oppositipetalovis ; style slender, annulate 

 to apex ; at summit stigmatose capitato-4-5-lobed ; ovules in cells 

 2, collaterally descendent or subsuperposed ; micropyle extrorsely 

 sujierior. Capsule, sometimes baccate ( Varwa), obovate or sub- 

 globose, oftener loculicidal 4-5-valvate ; valves free from basilar 

 columella. Seeds oblong ; testa short ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of axillate straight or curved embryo plane ; radicle superior. — Trees 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, simple, entire or 

 in the same plant imequally lobate or pinnately subcomposite ; 

 flowers in axillary cymes few or sometimes solitary.^ [South Africa 

 and eastern islands, Viti islands.^) 



G. Turrsea L.'^ — Flowers nearly of Munronia, 4-5-merous ; calyx 

 subentire, dentate or deeply fid. Petals 4, 5, elongate, free from 



' Spec. 1. K. alata Wight and Aiin. loc. cit.— androceum. 

 Wight, Icmi. t. 90.— Wai.p. Sep. i. 42(3.— ^ Spec. 4, 5. Cav. Dws. viii. 367, t. 211-214. 



Turrœa alata \Vight, MSS. — Pers. Enchirid. i. 467.— A. Gray, Amer. 



-3. Oen. 264.— Lamk. III. t. 302.— Pom. Expl. Erp. Bot. \.i. \& (Vavœa).— Uvsi^i,. Aua. 



Diet. vi. 43; Suppl. iv. 641.— DC. Prodr. i. Linmea, xxxiv. 65; DC. Prodi: xt. sect. ii. 



620.— A. Joss. Mdiac. 64, t. 1.— Endl. Gen. n. 227, n. 2 (PayeWa).- Seem. Fl. Vit. Z6{Vaeœit). 



S516.— B. H. Gen. 330, n. 1.— Baker Fl. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 255. — Waip. Rep. i. 



Maiirit. iô.—Gilibertia Gmel. Syst. 6S2.— 426 ; v. 376 ; ^«n. iv. 388 (rœ»œ«). 

 Jlabella Commers. Herb. ' Mautiss. 1306.— J. Gen. 264. — Lamk. III. t. 



3 Rœm. Symips. 90. 351. — PoiR. Vict. viii. 145 ; Suppl. v. 376. — ■ 



< Benth. Euok. Lund. Jomii. ii. 212.— B. H. DC. Prodr. i. 620.— A. Jnss. Meliac. 65, t. 1.— 



Oen. 331 994, n. 4. Spaou, Suit, à Biiffon, iii. 182. — Benn. Sors/. 



'WeryneaTtoS'aregamiaianiTurrœœfiomt'bQ Pl.Juv.Sar. m, 180. — Endl. Gct. n. 5519. — 



structure of the flower diifering from both B. H. Gen. 331, n. 3. — Baker, Fl. Manrit. 



chiefly in the shortness of the corolla and 45. 



