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or less distance from the apex, slightly dilated, stigmatiferous 
at apex. Capsule encircled by base of calyx, exterior lepidote, loculi- 
cidal, 5-valved; cells 1—6-spermous; seeds albuminous ; embryo 
rather fleshy; cotyledons folded 2-partite.—Undershrubs; leaves 
alternate linear entire, lepidote beneath, stipules linear-subulate ; 
flowers few (2, 3) in racemose pedunculate axillary and terminal 
cymes ; bracts 0; epicalyx under flower of 3 bractlets, inciso-digi- 
tate or subpinnate 3-fid, constant! (J/adagascar’). 
_ 18? Melhania Forsx.’—Flowers of Domdbeya; stamens solitary 
between staminodes; filaments very shortly connate in cupule ; 
anthers extrorse elongate ; cells parallel. Ovary 5-celled ; cells 1- a - 
ovulate ; style branches 5, patent, inwardly stigmatiferous. Other 
characters of Dombeya (or Trochetia). — Herbs or undershrubs, 
softly tomentose ;‘ leaves ovate or cordate serrate-crenate ; flowers 
axillary or lateral pedunculate, solitary or in small cymes; each 
furnished at base with 3 bractlets, cordate or linear, often longer 
than calyx, persistent’ (Varm regions of Asia and Africa, Tropical 
Australia’). 
IV. CHIRANTHODENDREÆX. 
19. Chiranthodendron Larrear.—Flowers regular, apetalous ; 
calyx (coloured) subcampanulate deeply 5-fid; lobes thick coria- 
ceous or subpetaloid (Fremontia), pitted at base ; præfloration imbri- 
cate. Stamens 5, alternating with the lobes of calyx; filaments 

1 For certain affinities with Æriolæna see 
BENTHAM. 
2 Spec. 1. C. linearis BENTH., said to be 
found in the Mauritius, but all the specimens 
preserved by us and collected by Dupetir- 
THouars, BOoJER, RICHARD, BERNIER, and 
Borvin are certainly Madagascarian, 
3 Fl. Æg.-Arab., 64.—DC., Prodr., i, 499, 
§ 2.—Enp1t., Gen., n. 5348.—H. BN., in Payer 
Fam. Nat., 288.—B. H., Gen., 222, n. 19.— 
Brotera Cav., in Ann. Cienc, Nat., i. 33 (part.) ; 
Icon., v. 19, t. 433.—ENDz., Gen., n. 5344.— 
Sprengelia Scuuut., Obs. Bot., 134.— Penta- 
glottis Watt., Cat., n. 1156.—Cardiostegia 
Prust, ÆEpimel. Bot, 249.—Vialia Vis. (ex 
Linnea, xv. Littb., 103). 
4 Habit similar to some Hermannias and 
Melochias, also to Sida and Hibiscus (sect. 
Senre). 
5 Genus scarcely distinct from Z'rochetia (on 
account of Greek species 5-androus). 
6 Spec. ad 15, Watu., Pl. As. Rar, t. 
77.—Wicur, Icon. t. 23.—ANDR., in Bot. 
Rep, t. 389 (Dombeya). — GUILLEM. & 
Perr, Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 85, t. 17.— 
Hoox. Fr, Niger, t. 4. 5.-—Harv. & Sonp., 
Fl. Cap., i. 224,—BENTH., Fl. Austral., i. 
234.— Bot. Mag., t. 100.—WaAtp., Rep.,i. 439 ; 
ii, 789; Ann. i. 109; ii. 167; iv. 327; vii. 
424, 
