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disk. Germen at base of receptacle, 2- or more rarely 3-locular; 

 style short columnar or truncate-conical, apex stigmatose shortly 

 lobed or 2-3-fid ; ovules in complete or incomplete cells I, other 

 characters of Bhamnus. Fruit free capsular ; exocarp thin, finally 

 separable from endocarp ; cocci of endocarp cartilaginous-crustaceous 

 or membranous-woody, septicidally solute and opening inwards, 

 and also at base solute from short receptacle and exposing the shortly 

 stipitate and erect persistent seeds in it. Seed exarillate ; testa very 

 hard nitid; 1 albumen fleshy or subcartilaginous ; cotyledons of axile 

 embryo flat rather thick. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alter- 

 nate penninerved ; stipules small or ; flowers in subumbellate 

 subsimple or compound cymes axillary or inserted in the wood of 

 the branches. (Australia, Neiv Caledonia.") 



6. Sarcomphalus P. Br. 3 — Flowers (nearly of Bhamnus) herma- 

 phrodite somewhat fleshy ; receptacle obconical or sub-hemispherical. 

 Petals long-unguiculate cucullate. Stamens 5, equal in length to 

 opposite petals ; filaments much incurved in the bud ; anthers hence 

 before anthesis included between the germen and the disk, finally 

 exserted; cells didymous, extrorsely rimose. Germen 2-3-locular, 

 ovules and other characters of Bhamnus ; branches of style 2, 3, 

 apex obtuse stigmatose. Drupe ovoid, girt at base below the 

 middle with cupule of receptacle ; putamen osseous, 2-3-locular ; 

 septa thick very hard. Seed suberect obovate compressed, some- 

 times subcariuate within exarillate ; embryo... ? — Glabrous trees 

 or shrubs, unarmed 4 or spinous ; leaves alternate petiolate quite 

 entire glabrous coriaceous, penninerved or oftener 3-plinerved ; 

 stipules small ; flowers in axillary and terminal ramose peduncu- 

 late cymes. {Antilles}) 



7. Hovenia Thunb. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle de- 

 pressed and broadly obconical, lined with a thin pilose disk. Sepals 



1 Red. Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 31. (Zizyphiiv havanensis 



3 Spec. 3, 4. Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 414 (Em- K. is [Griseb. loc. cit.'] a species of Sarcomp/iali, 



menospcrmum) . — H. Bn. Adansouia, xi. 269. notwithstanding its inflorescence, which is 



3 Jam. 179.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Iud. 100. rather that of Zhyphus) . 



— B. H. Gen. 376, n. 7. « Fl. Jap. 101.— J. Ge». 381.— Lamk. Diet. 



4 And then with the habit and leaves of some in. 138; III. t. 131. — DC. Prodi: i. 40. — Ad. 

 Cinnamoma. Br. Ehamn. 60, t. 4. — Spach, Suit, à Buffon, ii. 



6 Spec. 4, 5. L. Aman. v. 395 (Bhamnus),— 456.— Endl. Gen. n. 5721.— B. H. Gen. 378, 

 H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 57, not. (Rham- n. 12.— Hook. Fl. Lid. i. 640. 

 nus). — DC. Prodi: ii. 30, n. i. (Ceanothiis). — 



