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extrorsoly inferior. Fruit baccate, indéhiscent. Seeds few ascending ; 

 cotyledons of straight embryo convolute. — Trees or shrubs often 

 stellately pubescent ; habit, leaves, etc., of Vismia; flowers crowded 

 (smaller) in very compound cymiferous racemes. (Trop. Africa, 

 Malacca.) — See p. 384. 



4? Endodesmia Benth. 1 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous ; 

 sepals 5, coriaceous, imbricate, afterwards not contiguous. Petals 5, 

 alternate, unequal at base, sometimes thinner subauriculate, twisted. 

 Stamens <x> , in 5 bundles, inserted within petaloid tube, 5-dentate at 

 apex ; anthers crowded (small) iutrorse apiculate, 2-rimose. Germen 

 superior, girt at base with short thick hypogynous disk, 1-locular; 

 style slender eccentric, apex stigmatose not incrassate. Ovule 1, 

 inserted under apex of cell descending ; funicle rather thick ; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous oblong ; mesocarp thin ; 

 endocarp crustaceous, externally resinous-cellulose. Seed descending ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo fleshy ; radicle very short, supe- 

 rior. — A shrub ; leaves opposite coriaceous ; primary nerves pinnate 

 very close lineate parallel ; flowers in ramose corymbiform cymes. 

 (Trop, ivest. Africa.) — See p. 385. 



5. Cratoxylon Bl. — Flowers nearly of Vismia, 5-merous ; sepals 

 5, imbricate. Petals 5, alternate, contorted or imbricate, at base 

 naked within or more rarely appendiculate (Tridesmis). Stamens oo 

 (of Yismia), 3-adelphous. Glandules 3, squamiform, alternating with 

 bundles. Germen 3-locular; styles 3, stigmatose at apex. Ovules 

 in cells (complete or incomplete) 4-oo , 2-seriately ascending ; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior. Capsule loculicidally 3-valvate; valves 

 septiferous in middle. Seeds co , produced above to ascending dorsal 

 wing ; cotyledons of straight embryo generally longer than radicle. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite entire (herbaceous) pellucid punc- 

 tate, flowers axillary solitary or oftener cymose, sometimes in terminal 

 cymiferous raceme. (Asia ami trop. Oceania.) — See p. 385. 



6 ? Elisea Cambess.' — Flowers nearly of Cratoxylon, 5-merous ; 

 petals at base minutely appendiculate within. Bundles of stamens 

 and alternate glandules 3 ; connective minutely glandular at apex. 

 Ovules in incomplete cells (3), 3, ascending; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Seeds, etc., of Cratoxylon ; valves of capsule 3, loculicidally 



