496 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



staminal tube or at first coherent and later free {Calodryum^). 

 Stamens S-10, or rarely 11, 12; filaments connate in cylindrical, 

 sometimes very long, tube, at apex entire or crenate exappendiculate 

 or oftener produced externally to 8-10 pctaloid lobes ; anthers in- 

 serted in summit of tube, included or more rarely in part exserted, 

 ligulate at apex, apiculate or submuticous. Disk annular short or 

 0. Germen 5-locular, or more rarely 10-20-locular (Rutica-) ; cells 

 2-ovulate; style slender elongate, apex variously dilate stigmatose 

 capitate, discoidal, conical or sometimes iirceolate {^Scyphostigma ^). 

 Capsule 4 -co -locular, loculicidally 4-co -valvate ; valves free from 

 alate columella. Seeds more or less curved smooth (of Munronia or 

 Naregamia). — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate petiolate, entire, 

 sinuate or sublobate ; flowers * axillaiy solitary or oftener cymose 

 bracteate. {Trojncul and Southern Africa, Malacca, tropical Asia and 

 Oceania.^) 



II. TElCHILlEiE. 

 7. Trichilia I>. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular ; calyx short, 

 4, 5-fid or dentate, valvate or imbricate. Petals 4, 5, alternate, free 

 or sometimes connate at base, valvate or oftener imbricate. Stamens 

 8-10, or, very rarely 5; filaments rarely sub-free generally sub- 

 entire in a tube, dentate or fid, connate ; anthers inserted in lacinia3 

 at toj} of tube, erect, exserted, introrsely rimose, sometimes fur- 

 nished on each side with a short tooth or narrow cruciform process 

 of tube. Disk various, either fi'ee annular, entire or crenate, or 

 more or less adnate to the germen within or to the interior of the 

 staminal tube without, sometimes 0. Germen 2-3-locular, very 

 rarely 4-5-locular ; style erect short or rather long, apex stigmatose 

 truncate or variously dilated or capitate, or concave, variously lobed 

 or fid or somewhat prominently annulate below. Ovules in cells 

 generally 2, collateral or subsuperposed descendent ; micropyle 



' Desvx. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. I, ix. 401, t. 51. Wight, Icon, t 1593.— Rich. J"/. Aii/ss. Tent. 



—A. Juss. Meliac. 65, t. 1.— Spach, loc. cit. i- 106, t. 25.— Hauv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 244. 



181.— Endl. Gen. n. 5517.— B. H. Gen. 330, — Sciiltl. Ziiineea, xxv. 216.— Benth. Fl. 



n. 2. Austral, i. 379.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



2 Rœm. Sijnops. 93. 533 ; Suppl. i. 195.— Kotsch. et Pet». PL 



3 Rœm. loc. cit. Tinn. t. 6.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 330.— 



4 White. F. Mi-ELL. Fragm. v. 144. — H. Bn. Adansonia, 

 ' Spec, about 20. Hellen. Act. Holm. (1788), xi. 252.— Waip. Sep. i. 426; v. 373; Ann. ii. 



26, t. 10.— Sm. 2co,i. ined. t. 10-12.— Cav. Diss. 22G ; iv. 386 ; vii. 553. 

 t. 204, 205. — Vent. C/ioix de PI. t. 48.— 



