306 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stipules interpellate ; flowers axillary compound- cymose; pedicels 

 articulate, 2-bracteolate. [Madagascar.) — See p. 293. 



10. Cassipourea Aubl. 1 — Flowers nearly of Macarisia, 4-5- 

 merous. Stamens 2 15-30, inserted at margin of disk ; disk, etc., of 

 Mac.arisia. Germen very shortly stipitate or subsessile ; cells 3, 4, 

 2-ovulate. 3 Fruit fleshy or suberose, tardily septicidal. Seed aril- 

 late ; 4 embryo albuminous. 5 — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, entire or crenulate, penninerved ; stipules interpetiolate, 

 caducous; flowers 6 axillary cymose or solitary. (Trop. centr. America?) 



11. Dactylopetalum Benth. 8 — Flowers nearly of Cassipourea, 

 5-6-merous ; calyx dentate. Petals at base long narrow, lacerate at 

 apex. Stamens 10, 2-seriate; the oppositipetalous longer; or 15, 

 inserted under the crenatures of the disk a lining the receptacle ; 

 filaments inflexed in bud or 2-plicate ; anthers introrse versatile. 

 Germen more or less completely 2-3-locular ; 10 ovules in cells 2 ; 

 obturator thick. Fruit . . . ? — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site entire coriaceous; stipules small, caducous ; flowers" axdlary 

 cymose or glomerulate, sometimes very crowded, articulate. Other 

 characters of Cassipourea. (Trop. west. Africa, Madagascar} 2 ) 



12? Blepharistemma Wall. 13 — "Flowers polygamo-diœcious 

 (nearly of Cassipourea), 4-merous ; calyx valvate. Petals 4, lacerate, 

 and stamens 8 (of Cassipourea). Germen free, contracted at base, 

 3-locular ; ovules in cells 2 and other characters of Cassipourea. — A 

 shrub (?) ; leaves opposite petiolate sinuately crenate penninerved ; 

 stipules interpetiolate, caducous ; cymes axillary shortly pedunculate, 

 oo -florous." (East India. 11 ) 



1 Guian. i. 529, t. 211. — J. Gen. 432. — Lamk. a Juitrn. Linn. Soc. iii. 79. — H.Bn.Adaiwiniit, 

 Dict.i. 653.— DC. Prodr. iii. 33.— Endl. Gen- n. iii. 21, 35.— B. H. Gen. 682, n. 14. 



6104. — Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 79. — H. Bn. 9 Lobes of disk oftener in pairs interior to 



Adansonia, iii. 25, 38 ; Payer Fam. Nat. 362. — smaller stamens ; or filaments sometimes at base 



B. H. Gen. 682, n. 15. — Tita Scop. Introd. n. continuous with margins of disk. 



967. — Legnotis Sw. Prodr. 84 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. 968, , " Style sometimes tubular, thicker at apex, 



t. 17. u Whitish. 



2 Exterior to cupular disk. la Spec, about 3. Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, vi. 



3 Obturator rather thick above micropyle. 123, n. 6 (Cassipourea). — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 



4 Lobes laterally produced to aril. 411. — H. Bx. Adam. xi. 374. 



Sometimes coloured. 1S Cat. n. 6320. — Benth. Journ. Linn, Soc. iii. 



6 Small or rather large, white. 78. — B. H. Gen. 6S4, n. 13. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 



J Spec. 2, 3. Pom. Diet. Suppl. ii. 131.— 441. 



Hook. Icon. t. 280. — Griseb. Fl. Prit. W.-Ind. li Spec. 1. B. corgmbosum, Wall. — Drgptope- 



274. talum membranaceum, Mia. oxs. Hohen. n. 713. 



