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5-merous ; calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Stamens 5, alternate with 

 sepals ; filaments short free ; anthers subcordate. German free sub- 

 cordate ; style short, apex stigmatic obtuse; cells 2, oc -ovulate. 

 Capsule obcordate, loculicidally 2-valvate ; valves septiferous in the 

 middle ; the intermediate septa forming the dissepiment. Seeds co , 

 winged, attached on both sides perpendicular to dissepiment, super- 

 posed in duplex order from the base to the apex. — A glabrous tree ; 

 branches 1 verticillate ; leaves opposite and verticillate petiolate wide 

 obovate entire coriaceous ; flowers 3 in terminal many-flowered 

 corymbs. 3 " (Peru.*) 



7. Elgeodendron Jacq. f 5 . — Flowers of Euonymus ; germen 

 2-5-locular. Ovules in cells 2, ascending. Fruit drupaceous ; flesh 

 sometimes scanty ; cells of hard putamen 1-3, 1- or more rarely 2- 

 spermous. Seeds exarillate ; testa thinly membranous or slightly 

 fleshy ; cotyledons of thickly or scantily albuminous embryo flat.— 

 Small trees or shrubs ; leaves (oftener persistent) opposite or more 

 rarely alternate, entire or crenate ; stipules minute, caducous ; 

 cymose inflorescence 6 and other characters of Euonymus. (Asia, 

 Malaya, Oceania, and tropical South America. 7 ) 



8. Maurocenia Mill. s — Flowers nearly of Elœodendron (or 

 Euonymus) 5-6-merous ; stamens exserted. Anthers widely oblong 

 laterally extrorse. Germen oftener 3-locular, free from short disk ; 

 ovules in cells 2, collaterally descending ; micropyle introrsely 

 superior. Fruit baccate; 9 mesocarp finally spongy. Seeds 1- or 



1 Purplish. — Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 157. — Wight, ///. 



- Yellowish. t. 71.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 145.— Harv. 



3 A very uncertain genus. Query if of this and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 465 (Cassine), 467, 469 

 Urder? (Perhaps of Saxifrayaceec ?) (Mystroxylon). — Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat, sér. 4, viii. 



4 Spec. 1. A. verticillata R. et Pav. he. cit. 106 (Mystroxylon), 107. — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 



5 In Act. Helvet. i. 36.— J. Gen. 452 {Elceoden- 402.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 365.— Reiss. il.nl. 

 drum). — G-JERTtr. Fruet. i. 274, t. 57. — Lamk. Fl. Bras. Cetesfr. 32, t. 5. — H. Bn. Adanaonia, xi. 

 Diet, iv. 537 ; 111. t. 132.— DC. Prodr. ii. 10 267.— Walp. Rep. i. 536, 539 (Cassine) ; v. 402 

 (part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 5688.— B. H. Gen. 367, 403 {Canine) ; Ann. i. 191 ; ii. 264 ; vii. 577 

 n. 2S.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 325.— Hook. Fl. {Cassine), 581. 



Ind. i. 623.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. iS.—Schrebera s 2)ict. x. L. Gen. (ed. 1737), n. 244.— Cassine 



Retz. Obs. vi. 25, fig. 3. — Rubentia Commers. Mill. ex. L. Gen. (ed. ead.),n. 845 (nee. alior.). 



ex J. Gen. 378. — Portensc/ilar/ia Trattin. Arch. — J. Gen. 378. — G/Ektn. Fruct. ii. 72, t. 92. — 



250.— Neerija Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. GiQ.—Mnstroji/- Lamk. Diet. i. 651 ; Suppl. ii. 130 ; III. t. 130. 



Inn Eckl. et Zeyh. Enurn. Vïâ.—Crocoxylon —DC. Prodr. ii. 11.— B. H. Gen. 363, n. 12.— 



Eckl. et. Zeyh. loc. cit. 128. — lamarckia Hortul. H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 325. 



(ex Endl.). 9 Ovoid or glohular ; epicarp reddish, finally 



B Flowers white or greenish. dark violet ; mesocarp white. Said to be gene- 



' Spec, about 35 Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 11". rally drupaceous. 



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