extrorsely superior. — Fruit various in form, capsular coriaceous or 

 sub-flesliy, loculicidally 2-3-valvate, very rarely 4-5-valvate ; cells 

 1, 2-speriuous. Seeds doscendeut ; funiislied with or enclosed in a 

 more or less evoliite aril ; testa coriaceous ; cotyledons of c-salbumi- 

 nous embryo flesby thick ; radicle superior short. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate imparl pinnate or more rarely 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 opposite or alternate ; flowers in axillary or terminal more or less 

 ramosely compound cymiferous racemes. [Tropical America^ trojrical 

 and southern Jfrica.) See p. 474. 



8. Owenia F. Mdell.^ — Flowers nearly of Trichllia ; sepals 5 

 and petals same in number alternate longer open-recurved much 

 imbricated. Stamens 1 ; anthers exserted, inserted at top of cam- 

 pamilate tube and surrounded by an exterior lO-oo -fid crown. 

 Germen free, surrounded by an annular disk more or less thick 

 (or 0); cells 3, or more rarely 10-12; cells 1-ovular; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior ; style straight, much dilated to stigmatose apex 

 thick conical and more or less lobed at summit. Fruit drupaceous 

 globose; flesh thick or scanty; putamen 3- or more rarely 6-12- 

 locular. Seeds in cells solitary oblong, spongy without (arillate ?) ; 

 hilum ventral ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo plano-convex ; 

 radicle retracted superior. — Glabrous trees, sometimes gum-bearing 

 (?) ; leaves alternate pinnate ; leaflets sub-opposite <x> ; flowers in 

 ramose axillary racemes, often 2-nate in axil of bracts; each 

 2-bracteolate. ( Tropical Australia.") 



9. Heynea Roxb.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx short imbri- 

 cate, 4— 5-fiil. Petals 4, 5, longer, imbricate or sometimes sub- 

 valvate {SurcaJa).* Stamens 8-10; filaments 1-adelphous at or 

 below the base, free above and there entire or 2 -fid ; anthers sessile 

 between the legs orat topof inappendiculate filament, 2-rimose. Germen 

 oftener depressed, surrounded by or half-immersed in annular more 

 or less fleshy disk ; cells 2, 3 ; ovules in cells 2, descendent ; style 

 erect, apex stigmatose dilato-turbinate or sub-elevate 2-3-dentate 

 and a little below surrounded by a thickened ring. Fruit fleshy, 

 indéhiscent ( Walsura ^) or sometimes capsularily dehiscent [Eu- 



^ Sook. Kew Joiirii. ix. 303. — B. H. Oeu. (1819).— A. Juss. Mtliao. 82, t. 7.— Spach, 



337, 994, n. 28. '*>'(aV. à Buffmi, iii. 192.— Exdl. Gen. n. 5Ô10. - 



= Spec. 5. F. MUELL. Fmym. iii. 13.— Benth. B. U. Gen. 336, n. 23. 



Fl. Austral, i. 384 (part.). — Wali'. Ann. vu. * Kœm. Si/nops. 108. 



ÔÔ9 [O. cerasifera est, iid. F. Mukll. [Fiagm. v. ^ Ro.\b. Fl. Lid. ii. 386 (1824) —Wight and 



m), Spoiidiax jileiot/i/im {-p. 2Ô8)]. Akn. Prodi: i. 120. — E.ndl. Gen. a. 5.539.— 



'^Bot. Muff. t. 1738; P/. Cnrmiittiid. iii. 2jU B, II. Ch-n. o3G, n. 22. 



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