46 NATURAL HTS10RY OF PLANTS. 



flowers 1 in axillary terminal and more or less ramose spikes, 

 articulate at concave base. (Eastern Africa, south-western Asia") 



34. Salvadora Garcin. 3 — Flowers (nearly of Azima) hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous; calyx 4-fid, alternately imbricate, persistent. 

 Petals 4 4, longer and broad, contorted or imbricate, closely coadunate 

 with each other to middle and by means of the filaments into 

 a spurious gamopetalous corolla. Stamens 4 ; filaments alterni- 

 petalous adherent to corolla at base, above free ; anthers introrse. 

 Germen superior, 1-locular, 5 apex truncate-sessile stigmatic; ovule 

 in cell 1 (of Azima). Berry, seed, and other characters of Azima. — 

 Small trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite simple, sometimes very 

 coriaceous ; stipules very small, caducous ; flowers ° in simple or more 

 or less compound ramose spikes, bracteate. (Southern Asia, tropical 

 and subtropical 'western and eastern continental and insular Africa."') 



V. HIPPOCRATEE^. 



35. Hippocratea L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; sepals 5, small 

 and petals same in number, longer, imbricate, or valvate. Stamens 

 3 (or rarely 5 ; 2, 3 ananfherous) ; filaments free or adnate to 

 germen at dilated base, apex attenuated, recurved or reflexed. 

 Anthers 2-locular or 4-locellate, didymous or oblong; cells finally 

 confluent and extrorsely dehiscent. Disk covering receptacle, 

 broadly explanate, conical or cnpular. Gormen either free, or 

 confluent with disk, 3-locular ; style short subulate, apex stigmatic 

 subentire, 3-lobed or 3-fid ; ovules in cells 2-co , inserted in two 

 series in the internal angle of the colls. Carpels of fruit 3, generally 

 dry, connate at base, afterwards compressed or broadly aliform, 

 coriaceous indéhiscent or laterally 2-valvate. Seeds compressed, 



i White. 5 " Vestigia interduin loculi aborticntis dis- 



- Spec. 1, 2, imperfectly known. cernere suspicatus sum." (A. DC. lue cit. 28.) 



3 Act. Anal. 1749 (L. Gen. ed. 6, 163).— J. Gen. 6 Very small, white or greenish. 



84.— Lamk. 111. t. 8.— Poir. Diet. vi. 483 ; Suppl. 'Spec. 1, 2. L. Spec. i. 178; Sgst. 889 



v , 28. SrACH, Suit, à Buffo» xiii. 335. — Endl. (Sivim'a). — Forsk. Mg.-Arab. 32 (Cissus). — 



Gen. n. 2177. Pi» Ann. He. Nat. sér. 3. x. 189. — Retz. Ola. iv. 23, 24 {Embelia). — Vahl, Symb. 



Lindl. Veg. Xingd. 652, fig. 436. — Payer, Fam. i. 12. — Roxh. PI. Command, i. 26, t. 26; Fl. 



Nut. 14.— Lem. et Done. Tr. Gin. 453.— H. Bn. hid. (ed. Wall.), i. 404 —Wight, III. ii. 229, 



Adanmuia, ix. 287.— A. DC. Frodr. xvii. 27. t. 1S1 ; Icon. t. 1621.— Done. Jaequem. Voy. 



« The annular internode disjoined from tho But. iv. 140, t. 144. — Walp. Ann. " 

 calyx. 



582. 



