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times almost wholly absent; and the stamens, nearly the same in 
form as those of Pferospermum, are echeloned upon the exterior of 
the common tube formed by the non-free portion of the filaments. 
The ovary is divided into from four to twelve pluriovulate cells, and 
the fruit is a woody, loculicidal, polyspermous capsule, with winged 
seeds. The six or seven known species' are Indian trees, with 
axillary flowers, solitary or grouped in cymes. 
In the two genera Ungeria and Reevesia the general organization 
is very analogous to that of A/einhovia and Pterospermum, but the 
anthers are inserted, as in Sferculia, directly under the gynæceum, 
borne at the summit of the general column. In Xeevesia’ each of the 
ovary cells contains two ascending ovules, with inferior and exterior 
micropyle; and the capsular, woody, loculicidal fruit contains as 
many as ten winged, albuminous seeds. It consists of trees of 
tropical and subtropical Asia, with flowers arranged in terminal 
racemose cymes: a couple of species of them are enumerated.* In 
Ungeria,* of which there is but one species,’ a native of Norfolk 
Island ; the fruit is a woody capsule, with five prominent angles, 
like thick narrow longitudinal wings ; and the non-winged seeds are 
solitary in each cell, this being uniovulate in the flower. 
III. DOMBEYA SERIES. 
The flowers of Dombeya (figs. 98-101) are regular, hermaphrodite, 
and generally pentamerous. Their calyx is valvate,’ and their corolla 
formed of contorted,’ often unsymmetrical’ petals. The androceum is 

1 Waut., Pl. As. Rar., i.t. 64.— Wau, Icon., 
t. 882 (Microchlena)—Waxp., Rep. i. 351. 
2 Linz, in Quart. Jowrn. (1827), iii. 109; 
in Bot. Reg, t. 1236.—Scuorr et Enpt., 
Melet., 31.—Enpu., Gen., n. 5318.—B. H. 
Gen., 219, n. 7. 
3 Hook. in Bot. Mag., t. 4199.—Watp., 
Rep., i. 334, 
4 Scuorr et Enpu., Melet., 27, t. 4.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5317.—B. H., Gen., 219, n. 8. 
5 U. floribunda Scuorr et ENDL., loc. cit. 
6 Cav., Diss., iii. 121, t. 38-41.—J., Gen, 
277.—GæÆRTN., Fruct., ii. 259, t. 137.—LANMK., 
Ill, t. 137.—DC., Prodr., i. 498.—SPACH, 
Suit. à Buffon, iii. 447.—ENDz., Gen., n. 5346. 
—P. H., Gen., 221, 983, n. 15.—H. BN,., in 
Payer Fam. Nat., 288.—Assonia CAv., Diss., 
120, t. 42.—DC., Prodr., i. 498.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 5345.— Vahlia Daun, Obs., 40 (nee THUNB.). 
—Kenigia CoMMERS., mss,—Xeropetalum DEL., 
Cent. PI. Caill., 84.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5347.— 
Astrapæa Linvu., Collect., t. 14; Bot. Reg., 
t. 691.--EnpL., Gen., n. 5349.—H. BN., in 
Adansonia, ii. 173.—Hilsenbergia Bos., in Ann. 
Se. Nat., sér. 2, xviii. 189. 
7 The sepals, glabrous, or bearing stellate 
hairs outside, are often reflexed at anthesis. 
8 Often persistent and becoming round the 
fruit, dry and stiff as parchment. 
9 Such is their number in D. decanthera Cav., 
Diss., iii. 126, t. 40, fig. 2;—(Melhania decan- 
thera DC., Prodr., i. 499, n. 1), which appears 
