500 NATCllAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



cuclosed ina tube 10-fid r.bove, introrscly 2-rimosc.^ Germon clothed 

 at attenuated and shortly obconical base with glandidoiis disk,'- 1-2- 

 locular ; style erect cylindrical, apex stiginatose depressed capitate ; 

 ovules in cells 2, subsuperposed. Fruit globular stipitate baccate, 

 1-spermous; " hilum of peltate seed ventral." — Trees; leaves 

 abruptly pinnate,^ leaflets opposite petiolulate, unequal at base ; 

 the uppermost sometimes least ; flowers in full very ramosely com- 

 pound racemes. {Borneo, 3Ianilla.*) 



15. Turraeanthus H. Bn.^ — Flowers nearly of Dasycoleum, 

 4-5-merous ; calyx short cupular dentate. Petals coriaceous 

 connate with each other in clavate tube and below with staminal tube, 

 at apex free valvate. Stamens 8-10 ; anthers enclosed at top of 

 unequally lobed or crenate tube. Disk 0. Gerraen 1-locular ; style 

 erect, apex depressed capitate discoid stigmatose ; placenta? parietal 

 septiform 4, 5, more or less prominent, 2-ovulate. Ovules subor- 

 thotropal or presenting a very short descendent ventral raphe ; 

 micropyle ascendent extrorsely superior. Fruit . . . ?— Glabrous 

 shrabs ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate or 3-foliolate ; leaflet termi- 

 nal articulate ; lateral alternate ; flowers in small racemiform or 

 corymbiform cymes, axillary or springing laterally fi-om the wood, 

 sometimes remotely alternate in slender axillary twig, articulate, 

 bracteate. [Tropical ivcstern Africa,^) 



16. Synoum A. Juss.'^ — Flowers 4-merous ; calyx gamophyllous ' 

 laciniee rotund or acute, imbricate. Petals 4, longer coriaceous, con- 

 torted or imbricate. Stamens 8 ; anthers inserted at crenulate mouth 

 of short and broad cylindrical tube semi-exscrted, introrso, 2 rimose. 

 Germon depressed ovoid, seated upon a very short disk (?), hirsute, 

 produced to straight style widely discoid at stigmatose apex ; cells 3, 

 2-ovulate ; ovules in pairs descendent ; hilum far adnate to placenta ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior ; or finally variously oblique. Capsule 

 globular sub-3-lobed, subfleshy, finally loculicidal ; valves 3, in 

 the middle internally septiferous ; seeds furnished above with a fleshy 

 layer (aril). — A small glabrous tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite sessile lanceolate ; flowers in spurious short axillary 

 cymiferous sparsely ramose racemes. [Subtropical Australia.^) 



' Pollen in superposed cateniform masses. ' Spec. 2. 



' Now nearly obsolete. 7 Meliac. 74, t. 4. — Endl. Gen. n. 5532. — 



^ Innovations and inflorescence snbsericcous B. H. G™. 335, n. 18. — Schouieusia Ekdi,. Fiodr. 



greyish pubescent. F/. Xorfidk, 79, not. 



■* Spec. 2. H. Bn'. A'!<iiixoiiin, xi. 263. * Spec. 1. S. r/laiidnlosinn A. Jvss. loc. cit. 

 ' Adaiisoiiia, xi. 261. 



