138 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
oppositipetalous, superposed between staminodes 2-4 ; ceils 2, divari- 
cate (one sometimes aborting). Germen sessile ; cells 5, -ovulate ; 
styles 5, in tube, sometimes dilated at apex, connivent ; apex stig- 
matiferous. Capsule membranous, wide 5-angled, subulate, truncate 
at apex, compressed, 5-horned, finally shortly loculicidal and 
septicidal’ above. Seeds ao ; embryo albuminous straight; coty- 
ledons flat, cordate ; radicle cylindro-conical.—Many-stemmed small 
trees; hairs soft stellate; leaves subentire or palmilobed ; flowers? 
solitary, or oftener in pedunculate cymes, terminal or sometimes 
spuriously leaf-opposed (Asia and Tropical Australia’). 
33. Maxwellia H. By.‘—F lowers regular ; receptacle small, rather 
flat. Sepals 5, 3-angled, thick, reduplicate-valvate. Petals 5, alternate, 
small, tongue-shaped, rather fleshy, arched. Stamens 10, all fertile, 
oppositipetalous by pairs; filaments short, erect, 2-nate and 2-anthered 
at apex; anthers lateral; cells 2, separate, longitudinally laterally 
rimose. Germen free, elongate-fusiform, 3-5-angled; placentas 
same in number, parietal, inwardly rather prominent, finally inwardly 
contiguous or separate ; ovules in each placenta , 2-seriate ascend- 
ing; micropyle extrorse inferior ; style slender, divided at apex into 
3—5-lacinate stigmatiferous lobes. Fruit clothed with base of non- 
accrescent calyx, oblong, subulate-3—5-angled; pericarp inwardly coria- 
ceous-suberous. Seeds , immersed in incomplete cells, ascending ; 
testa crustaceous ; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo axile straight ; 
cotyledons foliaceous, ellipsoidal ; radicle longer below, obtuse, subcla- 
vate at apex.—A lepidote tree ; leaves alternate, simple, ovate-obtuse, 
orbicular, or transversely elliptical, more rarely subreniform, coria- 
ceous, thick, penninerved, 3-plinerved at base ; flowers in compound 
racemes; branches rather compressed or angular’ (Wew Caledonia’). 
34, Glossostemon Dusr.’—Calyx deeply 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 

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1 Dissepiments at internal angle pilose- 
plumose, 
2 Of a dull purple. 
3 Spee. 2, 3, R. Br., in Ait, Hort. Kew., ed. 
2, iv. 409.—Sauiss., Par. Lond., t. 102.—H. B. 
K., Nov, Gen. et Spec., v. 318.—Brnta., Fl. 
Austral, i, 236.—Miq., Fl. Ind,-Bat., i, p. ü. 
183.—WalLpP., Rep. i. 337 (part.); Ann, iv. 
322; vii. 429. 
4 In Adansonia, x. 98. 
5 An anomalous genus, closely allied by its leaves 
to Pimia, by its minute petals to some Lasio- 
petaleæ. It differs from all in its anthers before 
each petal (small arched sub-transparent) not 
being solitary. It recedes from the rest of the 
Buettneree in the absence of staminodes. 
6 Spec. 1. M. lepidota H. BN., loc. cit., 
100. 
7 In Mém. Mus., iii. 238, t. 11.—DC., 
Prodr., i, 485.—H. B. K., Nov, Gen. et Spec., v. 
