304 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



number, subentire or 2-fid, serrate or lacerate. Stamens double in 

 number, inserted in 2 series under epigynous simple or 2-plieate, 

 S-lG-lobed disk projecting between the filaments and free ; anthers 

 introrsely 2-rimose. Germen partly or quite inferior ; cells 3-6 ; 

 style at stigmatose apex variously 3-6-lobed. Ovules in cells 2, 

 descending; micropyle extrorse. Fruit generally crowned with 

 calyx, globular coriaceous. Seed globular or reniform ; albumen 

 fleshy ; radicle of axile more or less incurved embryo superior. — 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite petiolate glabrous, entire 

 or serrulate; stipules interpetiolate, caducous; flowers small in 

 compound cymes; pedicels articulate, minutely 2-bracteolate. {Asia, 

 trop. Oceania, Malacca.) — See p. 291. 



6. Crossostylis Fokst. 1 — Flowers nearly of Barraldeia ; receptacle 

 shortly obconical or obpyramidal. Sepals 4, 5, 3-angular, valvate. 

 Petals same in number lacerate or more rarely subentire (Haplopeta- 

 lum*). Stamens 8-10, or oftener 12-c/o , 3 alternating with as many 

 lobes of disk ; 4 anthers introrse. Germen adnate to receptacle at 

 base, thence free ; style at stigmatose apex funnel-shaped and there 

 reflexed co -lobed. Ovules in cells 4-co (very incomplete) 2-nate, 

 inserted in pairs on central column 5 descending; micropyle ex- 

 trorsely superior. Fruit scarcely or to a less or greater extent adnate 

 to receptacle and crowned with calyx, scarcely or tardily septicidal. 

 Seeds co , furnished with a fleshy aril ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of oftener straight embryo narrowly ovate. — Small trees or shrubs; 

 leaves opposite; stipules, etc., of Barraldeia; flowers 7 axillary 

 pedunculate, 2-nate or cymose oo . (Oceania. 8 ) 



7. Gynotroches 13l. 9 — Flowers nearly of Barraldeia, 4-5-merous. 

 Stamens 8-10, inserted at margin of disk ; anthers small sub-2- 

 dymous. Germen partly inferior; cells 4-t> ; style depressed- 



1 Char. Gen. 87, t. 44. — J. Gen. 432. — Lamk. prominent or inconspicuous. 

 Diet, ii. 193. — DC. Prodr. iii. 296. — Endl. Gen. 6 Sometimes green, 



n. 0336.— Benth. Juum. Linn. Soc. iii. 77.— II. 1 Large or minute, white, 



l'.s. Adamonia, iii. 31, 40 ; Payer Fam. Nat. 361. 8 Spec, about 5. Guillem. Ann. Sc. Nat sex. 



— B. H. Gen. 6S1, n. 10.— Tomostyles Mont- 2, vii. 354.— A. Guay, loe. cit. 610, t. 77 — 



Bous. Mém. .lend. Lyon. x. 201. Seem. l'l. Vit. 428.— Bit. et Gu. Huit. Soc. Bot. 



" A. Guay, Unit. St. Expl. E.rp. Bot. i. 608, t. Ft: viii. 376 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, xiii. 393. 

 70; Sum. Bonpl. (1862) 36— Benth. Join n. » Bijdr. 218 ; Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 120, t. 31.— 



Linn. Soe. iii. 76. — H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 29. Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 70. — H. l'.\. 



3 Of which 4, 5, larger, oppositipetalous ; the Adansonia, iii. 30, 40 ; Payer Fam. Nat. 362.— 



rest from the middle of the petal to the margin B. 11. Gen. 681, n. 9. — Hook. Fl. lml. ii. 440.— 



smaller; the smallest often oppositipetalous. Dryptopetalum Mis. Ann. Nat. Rht. i. 372. — 



1 Often regarded as staminodes. Endl. Gen. n. 6103. 



« Bearing rudiments of septa generally little 



