m NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



(wide) entire coriaceous perminerved reticulate-veined canescent- 

 tomentose ; stipules interpetiolate large, deciduous ; flowers axillary 

 in loose pedunculate cymes, bracteate or bracteolate.i (St. Helena.") 



27. Lasiodiscus Hook. F. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 cupuliform or broad obconical. Sepals 5, wide, 3-angular, valvate, 

 finally reflexed. Petals small concave, rather shorter, deciduous. 

 Stamens inserted with perianth around thick epigynous glabrous or 

 densely velutinous disk crowning the germen ; filaments subcom- 

 planate longer than the petals ; anthers small introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen inferior, filling the cavity of the receptacle ; cells 3, 1- 

 ovulate ; ovules of Rhamnus ; style erect rather thick, sometimes 

 articulated a little above the base, at apex 3-fid ; branches recurved, 

 stigmatose within and at obtuse apex. Fruit finally dry obconico- 

 turbinate, entirely adnate to receptacle except at depressed convex 

 apex, 3-coccous (?) ; seed unequally obovoid depressed ; cotyledons of 

 albuminous embryo suborbiculate (virescent). — Shrubs, sometimes 

 subscandent, glabrous ; innovations strigillose ; leaves opposite large, 

 shortly petiolate entire or serrulate membranaceous ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar erect lanceolate, free or connate at base, deciduous ; flowers 

 (rather large) in terminal axillary compound subumbellate peduncu- 

 late cymes ; branches and twigs of inflorescence compressed or 

 ferrugineo-tomentose ; fructiferous curved. (Trop. Western Africa, 

 Malacca. 1 ') 



28 ? Trymalium Fenzl. 5 — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle ob- 

 conical. Sepals 5, 6 3-angular, deciduous or patent. Petals 5, cucul- 

 late, enclosing small anthers. Stamens 5 ; filaments incurved, inserted 

 with perianth around epigynous annular or 5-lobed or partite disk ; 

 anthers ovoid. Germen inferior, internally adnate to receptacle, 

 free only at apex and attenuate to 2, 3-lobed style ; cells 1, 2, 1- 

 ovulate. Fruit capsular, quite adnate within to thin receptacle, 



1 A genus scarcely to be retained, though in 34. n. 1. 



somo cases in the form of its apical fruit, in 3 Gen. 381, n. 20. 



other cases, in its ample leaves and loose cymes, 4 Spec. 2. Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. i. 385. — II. 



distinct from most Phylicas, it would perhaps Bn. Adansonia, viii. 209. Epigynous disk in 



he better regarded as a section of the latter in Western species densely velutino-lanate, in 



which the above characters are occasionally that of Madagascar rather glabrous, 



observed. 5 Seng. Enum. 20.— Endl. Gen. n. 5744.— 



3 Spec. 1. N. elliptica Hook. p. — Phylica ellip- B. H. Gen. 382, n. 34. 



t : ea Koxb. Beats. App. 316. — DC. Prodi: ii. 6 Often coloured. 



