49« NATUHAL HISTORY OF PLAXTS. 



heijnca)^ 2-valvate, 1- or more rarely 2-spormoiTS ; testa of arillate 

 seed crustacoous ; cotyledons of exalbumiuous fleshy embryo plano- 

 convex ; radicle short superior. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate 

 pinnate or 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets opposite or alternate ( Walsura) ; 

 flowers in axillary and terminal very ramose pedunculate sometimes 

 corymbiform racemes.' {Tropical Asia.") 



10. Ekebergia Spaerm.-^ — Flowers (nearly of Trichilia) herma- 

 phrodite or polygamo-diœceous ; calyx short, imbricate, 5-fid. 

 Petals 5, longer, imbricate, or rarely valvate. Stamens 10, 1- 

 adelphous ; tube campauulate, 10- dentate; teeth each antheriferous ; 

 anthers introrse exserted. Germcn surrounded by annular disk, 

 2-5-locular ; style short, clavate or subturbinate to stigmatose apex 

 or disciform, indistinctly 2-5-lobed ; ovules in cells 2, superposed 

 descendent. Fruit baccate coriaceous indéhiscent; cells 1-5, 1- 

 spiirmous ; embryo of exarillate seed thick fleshy. — Trees ; leaves 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; flowers in axillary ramosely com- 

 pound cymiferous racemes.* [Tropical and South Africa.^) 



11. Beddomea IIook. f.*' — ■" Calyx 5-partite; lobes broad ovate, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, thick orbiculate, the interior smaller, imbricate. 

 Staminal tube short ; margin slightly crenulate. Anthers 8, thick, 

 sessile to apex of tube exserted connivent, .3 -angular acute ; connec- 

 tive very thick ; cells marginal narrow, finally confluent at apex. 

 Germen conical shortly hirsute, immersed in inconspicuous tomen- 

 tose disk, 3-locular ; style short thick ; stigmatically 3-lobed pyra- 

 midal ; ovules in cells 2, collateral pendulous. Fruit...? — A sub- 

 scandent shrub ; twigs terete ; in the recent ones, panicles and 

 petioles somewhat tomentose with reddish pubescence ; leaves im- 

 paripinnate ; rachis terete ; leaflets opposite, 1-2 -paired petiolate 

 ovately or elliptically oblong very entire; panicles axillary few- 

 flowered.^ " (Neilt/hcrr// mountains.*^) 



12 ? Hearnia F. Muell." — " Sepals 5, unequal, imbricate. Petals 



1 Very near TrkhiUa. ' Spec. 4, 5. Fresen. in Mtis. Senk. ii. 278 



- Spec. 8, 9. Wight, H'. t. 5.5 ( WaUnra).— {T,ichiUa).—'B.kUY. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 247. 



Thw. Eiiiim. PL Zeyl. 61.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bnt. — GuiLL. et Peek. Fl. Si):. Tent. i. 126, t. 31. 



i. p. ii. 542 ; Suppl. i. 505.— H. Bn. in Adan- — Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 332. —A. Rich. FL 



sonia, xi. 265. — Walp. Sep. i. 431 [Walsura), Ahijss. Tent. i. 105, t. 24. — H. Bn. Adanmma, 



432 ; Ann. iv. 389 (IFalsiira). xi. 263.— Walp. Hep. i. 431 ; Ami. ii. 227. 



^ Jet. Holm. (1779), 282, t. 9.- J. Gen. 265. « Gen. 336, n. 24. 



— Lamk. Did. ii. 346 ; Suppl. ii. 543 ; III. t. ' " Flowers rather large pedicilliitc ; calyx 



358. — DC. Prodr. i. 623. — Spach, Suit, à ferruginoous tomentose; petals glabrous." (Hook. 



Buffon, iii. 191. — A. Juss. Meliac. 81, t. 6. — p. by whom the characters are selected.) 

 Endl. Oen. n. 5538.— B. II. Gen. 335, n. 21. * Spec. 1. B. Indiea Hook. f. loc. cit. 



■" Very near y/vV/'/îV/ff ; it differs principally in ^ Frciijm. v. 55. — B. H. Gen. 994, n. 24 ff. 



its baccate fruit and exarillate seeds. 



