CELASTRACEM. 39 



longer much imbricated, often finally recurved at apex. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments inserted between the lobes of 5-gonal disk 

 and exterior to them subulate ; anthers short introrse. Germen 

 immersed in base of disk, 3-gonal-pyramidal, 3-locular ; style 

 short, apex stigmatic variously 3-lobed or 3-gonal. Ovules in cells 

 2, ascending; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit capsular sub- 

 membranous or subfleshy, 3-6-alate, loculicidally 3-valved ; valves 

 inwardly septiferous in the middle ; wings simple or 2-fid to apex 

 Seeds ascending, either included in a membranous aril (Aster ocar pus), 

 or exarillate compressed and marginately alate (Peripterygia x ) ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of (green) embryo linear or elliptic ; 

 radicle rather long inferior. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; branches 

 angular ; leaves alternate coriaceous obovate ; stipules very small 

 glandulifonn or ; flowers in axillary or terminal ramose-compound 

 often corymbiform cymes. [South Africa New Caledonia?') 



20. Kurrimia Wall. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle sub- 

 plane or cupular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, longer, imbricate, 

 open-recurved. Stamens 5, inserted with alternate petals under the 

 margin of disk lining the receptacle ; filaments subulate ; anthers 

 introrse or laterally or extrorsely dehiscent. Germen immersed 

 within disk ; cells 2, incomplete, or complete ; styles 2, filiform, 

 springing from woolly apex of germen, more or less twisted or corru- 

 gate in the bud, capitellate at stigmatic apex ; ovules in cells 2, 

 collaterally ascending subbasilar. Fruit capsular coriaceous, indéhis- 

 cent or 2-valved ; seeds elongate, enclosed in fleshy aril ; testa 

 smooth glossy ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo linear- 

 elongate. — Glabrous trees ; leaves alternate petiolate entire 

 coriaceous penninerved ; veins transverse ; stipules decidiious ; 

 flowers' 1 in axillary and terminal racemes, simple or ramose. (South 

 Tropical Asia, Malaya?) 



21. Perrottetia H. B. K. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite orpolygamo- 

 diœcious (nearly of Euonymus or Cc/astrus), 5-merous ; petals valvate 



1 H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 266. 4 White, "yellowish. Capsules brown. Aril 



2 Spec. 7, 8. Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. white or reddish." 



461. s g peo _ aD0U t 3. Thw. Mum. PI. Zeyl. 72.— 



3 Cat. n. 4334.— Arn. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Walp. liep.i. 538 (Bheta). 



xviii. 328.— B. H. Gen. 365, n. 20.— H. Bn. 6 Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii.. 73, t. 622.— Endl. 



Payer Fam. Nat. 325.— Hook. Fl. Lid. i. 621.— Gen. n. 5697.— B. H. Gen. 367, n. 29.—? Tlua- 



Bhesa Him. Edinh. New Phil. Journ. xvi. 315 phtjllmn Nutt. (exTuRCz.). — Caryospermum Bl. 



(part.). — Endl. Gen. n. 5692. — Pyrospermum Mus. Lugd.-Bat, i. 176. — B, H. Gen. 367, n. 27, 

 MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 402. 



