celastracej:. 45 



alternate petiolate, entire coriaceous venose, sub-3-plincrvecl ; stipules 

 minute, caducous ; flowers in axillary pedunculate (spurious ?) 

 umbels ; pedicels slender ; buds conical. (Guiana.) See p. 10. 



IV. AZIMEiE. 



32. Azima Lake. — Flowers polygamo-diœcious regular ; calyx 

 sacciform membranous, valvate, 4- or unequally-fid. Petals 4, often 

 narrow, not continuous at base. Stamens 1, alternipetalous ; fila- 

 ments subulate longer than the corolla (sometimes in female flowers 

 connate with it in a short ring) ; anthers short, introrsely 2-rimose(in. 

 female flower effete). Germen (in male flower rudimentary) free, 

 2-locular ; cells sometimes 2-locellate ; style short, apex stigmatose 

 capitate subentire or divided into 2 acute reflexed lobes. Cells 

 1 -ovulate (Euasima) or 2-ovulate (Actegeton) and protected by a 

 spurious septum between each ovule. Ovules subbasilar ascending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior (often finally lateral). Fruit baccate 

 globose, 1-4-spermous ; testa of erect seed cartilaginous ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous fleshy embryo suborbiculate plano-convex, auricu- 

 late at base ; radicle short inferior concealed in auricules. — Shrubs 

 more or less sarmentous ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous ; stipules 

 lateral articulate, spines (the costse of the leaves) in axils of leaves 2 

 or 4-6 (of which 2 are smaller) ; flowers in axils of leaves solitary 

 glomerate, cymose or racemoso-cymose. (Tropical Asia, Indian 

 Archipelago, southern and tropical Eastern Africa, continental and 

 insular). See p. 1 ] . 



33. Dobera J. 1 — Flowers (nearly of Azima) polygamous (or 

 hermaphrodite ?) ; receptacle shortly cupulif'orm. Calyx ganio- 

 phyllous, valvate, unequally divided or 4-lobed. Petals 4, free. 

 Glandules 4, oppositipetalous, flat thick. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments 1-adelphous 3 to middle; anthers elongate subsagittate 

 introrse. Germen (in female flower effete) 2-5-locular ; I cell fertile ; 

 ovule of Azima. Berry ellipsoid, seed 3 and other characters of 

 Azima. — Trees ; leaves opposite entire articulate ; stipules very small ; 



1 Gen. 425. — Pom. Diet. Suppl. ii. 493. — Pl. Fl. Abyss. Tent. i. 108. — Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. 



Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, x. 191. — H. Bn. Adansonia, 75. 



x. 31. — A. DC. Prodi: xvii. 30. — Tomcx Foksk. 2 Lite Meliœ. 



JEg.-Arab. 32 (not L. nor Thunb.). — Schhocalyx 3 Iinlumentum purple sub-fleshy ; embryo 



Hochst. Flora (1844), Beibl. 1.— A. Rich. green (ex Ehrenb. Icon. Lithogr. ined.) 



