128 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
9.? Eriolena DC.—Calyx 5-fid or 5-partite, valvate. Petals 5, 
alternate, inserted with calyx; claw dilated. Column short or 
very short, bearing  l-adelphous stamens; filaments connate 
into a tube to a greater or less height, unequally free at apex ; an- 
thers erect oblong-linear ; cells parallel, rimose ; staminodes 0. 
Ovary very short, stipitate, 4—12-celled ; style stigmatiferous stellate 
at apex 4-12-lobed. Ovules ™, ascending; micropyle extrorse 
inferior. Capsule lignescent, loculicidal. Seeds «, winged above ; 
embryo slightly albuminous; cotyledons folded or contortuplicate ; 
radicle inferior.—Trees, stellate-pubescent or tomentose; leaves 
alternate, petiolate, cordate ; flowers axillary solitary or in cymes ; 
bracts 3-5, sometimes lacinate (Zrop. Asia). See p. 68. 
10. Reevesia Linpu.—Calyx subclavate valvate, unequal-3—5- 
fid. Petals unguiculate, contorted, inserted with calyx. Column 
erect antheriferous at apex; anthers 10-%, capitate; cells extrorse 
divaricate, rimose. Germen placed at summit of colnum, 5- 
celled; style very short, 5-lobed, stigmatiferous. Ovules 2 in each 
cell, ascending; micropyle extrorse inferior, capsule lgneous, 
loculicidal 5-valved. Seeds in cells 1, 2, ascending, winged above ; 
embryo straight ; cotyledons flat foliaceous ; radicle short inferior ; 
albumen fleshy.—Trees ; leaves alternate, entire, petiolate ; flowers 
crowded in compound terminal racemose cymes ; bracts and bractlets 
small often remote from flower (Zropical and Subtropical Asia). See 
p- 69. 
11. Ungeria Sonorr & Expr. — Calyx clavate-campanulate- 
valvate, 5-fid. Petals 5, inserted with calyx, unguiculate con- 
torted. Stamens as in Reevesia. Germen inserted at summit of 
column, 5-celled; styles short, stigmatiferous at apex. “ Ovule 
solitary in each.” Capsule subulate-5-agonal, coriaceous-ligneous. 
“Seed ovate globose; embryo straight; albumen copious.”— 
Trees ; leaves alternate, simple, petiolate ; flowers in dense cymiferous 
racemes ; bracts small remote from flower (Vor/o/k Island). See 
p- 69. 
