32 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ceous, coherent at base. Sometimes more rarely (Paracelastrus J ). 

 Stamens 5, filaments at base adnate to margin of receptacle, or to 

 base of petals, otherwise free ; anthers introrse ovate rather large, 

 2-rimose. Germen at base adnate to concavity of receptacle, incom- 

 pletely 2-3-locular, style thick, apex stigmatic, minutely 2-3- 

 lobed. Ovules in cells 2, collaterally ascending suberect ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit capsular oblong, surrounded at base by 

 the perianth, tardily dehiscent, 2-3-valvate. Seed 1, stipitate oblong, 

 exterior soft or fleshy ; 3 albumen dense fleshy ; cotyledous of straight 

 embryo foliaceous. — Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves 3 opposite 

 petiolate entire coriaceous thick, persistent; flowers 4 in axillary 

 cymes or glomerules. [East Incites.") 



5. Kokoona Thw. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx capillar 

 shortly lobate crenate or subentire. Petals 5, longer, thick coria- 

 ceous glandular-punctate, imbricate or contorted. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments free short, at base thickly subulate and 

 inserted in as many hollows of a thick obtusely 5-angled hypogynous 

 disk; anthers thick ovate-acute or oblong introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Germen immersed in base of disk, 3-locular ; style short thick, apex 

 shortly 3-lobed stigmatic. Ovules in cells co , imbricate in 2-series, 

 obliquely ascending. Capsule (large) subligneous thick oblong, 

 3-gonal, loculicidally 3-valvate ; valves inwardly septiferous. Seeds 

 co , imbricate, produced either above or on both sides to a wide 

 wing ; testa of basilar or medial nucleus coriaceous ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo flat obovately cuneate or depressed 3-angular ; 7 

 radicle inferior, s or (with 2-alate seeds and 3-angular cotyledons), 

 ventral and horizontal very short. Glabrous wide-spreading branched 

 trees ; leaves opposite petiolate, entire or obscurely crenate, 

 coriaceous, sometimes punctate beneath ; stipules small, caducous ; 

 flowers 9 in axillary pedunculate compound cymes ; pedicels 2-brac- 

 teate. (Borneo, Ceylon} ) 



G ? Alzatea K. et Pav. 11 — " Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous, 



1 Mift. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 590. 616.— Trigonocarpw Wall. Cat. n. 6520 (not 



2 Testa rod or dusky. Velloz. whose is a species of Cupania. 



3 Nearly of Clusiacca or Shizophorea. ' Ina Bornean species (herb. Bcccari). 



4 Small white, sometimes recalling those of 3 In a Ceylon species. 



some Ilicineœ, the petals for instance being 9 For the Order rather large (recalling those 



oftener free. cf Hippocratea) ; petals bright yellow. 



5 Spec. 7, 8. Wight, Icon. t. 761,976, 977, 10 Spec. 2. Walp. Ann. iv. 368. 



1052.— Thw. Enwn.Pl. Zajl. 71.— Walp. Bep.i. » Prodr. 40, t. 7; Fl. Per et Chil. iii. 20, 



534 ; Ann. i. 191 ; vii. 575. t. 241, fig. a.— DC. Prodr. ii. 10 (" apparently 



6 Hook, Kew Journ. v. 379 ; Enum. PI. Zcyl. allied to Maytenas"). — Endl. Gen. n. 5698. — 

 52.— B. H. Qcn. 362, n. 8.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. B. H. Gen. 362, n. 9. 



