RHIZ0P110RACEM. 307 



13? Weihea Spkeng. 1 — Flowers nearly of Cassipourea, 4-6- 

 merous ; stamens 15-30. Germen at broad base internally acluatc 

 to receptacle ; cells 3, 4, 2-ovulate. 3 Fruit tardily septicidal. 3 Seeds 4 

 albuminous, embryo, etc., of Cassipourea. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, entire or serrulate ; flowers axillary, solitary or cymose 

 3-co . 5 Other characters of Cassipourea? {Ceylon, trop. west. 

 Africa, Madagascar. 7 ) 



IY. ANISOPHYLLEiE. 



14. Anisophyllea E. Br. — Flowers polygamous; receptacle con- 

 cave tubular. Calyx epigynous ; folioles 4, valvate, finally erect. 

 Petals 4, alternate, inserted with sepals, entire or emarginate, oftener 

 2-lobed or lacerate. Stamens 8, 2-seriate and alternating with glauds 

 of epigynous disk ; filaments subulate compressed ; anthers often 2- 

 dymous, 2-rimose within, sometimes in oppositipetalous stamens 

 glanduliform (or 0). Germen 4-locular ; cells oppositipetalous, 1- 

 ovulate; styles 4, distinct, recurved at apex. Ovule descending; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit oblong, terete, often costate, 

 drupaceous or coriaceous, naked or(?) widely 3-4-alate, indéhiscent; 

 seed descending ; radicle of exalbuminous fleshy embryo macropod 

 clavate ; folioles of inferior gemmule co , decussate. — Trees or shrubs 

 glabrous or sericeous ; leaves distichously alternate, all equal or 

 oftener the alternate ones minute stipuliform ; the others larger, at 

 base equal or unequal, 3-7-plinerved at base, coriaceous (often 

 lutescent), exstipitate ; flowers axillary spicate or subracemose, 

 articulate; bracteoles minute or 0. (Trop. Asia, Malaya, Malacca, 

 trop. west. Africa.) — See p. 295. 



1 Syst. ii. [1825] 559. — H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 5 Flowers (where known) white. 



27, 38.— B. H. Gen. 681, n. 11.— Hook. PI. Ind. » A genus very likely, together with Dactij- 



ii. 440. — Richieeia Dup.-Th. Gen. Nov. Mad. 25. lostcmon, better referred to a section of Cassi- 



— Anstrutheria Garen. Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. pourea (?). 



vi. 344, t. 4. — Benth. Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 70, 7 Spec, about 9. DC. Prodr. iii. 34 (Cassipon- 



78. rea). — Benth. Niger, 341 (Cassipourea). — Tul. 



2 Micropyle densely closed. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, vi. 119, n. 1-5, 7 (Cassipu- 

 Fleshy ; valves thick 3, 4. rea). — Thw. Ennm. PI. Zeyl. 121 (Anstrutheria). 



4 Arillatc ; radicle of often coloured (green- — Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. ii. 410. — Walp. Ann. ii. 



ish) embryo superior, subcapitate at apex. 173 (Anstrutheria) ; vii. 952 (Cassipourea) . 



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