160 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
oblong or linear, hypogynous at base or slightly perigynous, 
exterior often tomentose, præfloration at apex contorted or invo- 
lute,’ erect-patent at anthesis, or finally generally recurved revolute. 
Stamens ©; column separated above into o-filaments, 1-antheri- 
ferous, often 2-nate, connate at base, 5-2 -adelphous ;? anthers reni- 
form, 1-locular, curvo-rimose at margin. Germen free, sessile ; 
cells 5—s0 -ovulate; style clavate at apex, shortly stigmatiferous, 
5-lobed. Fruit oblong or subglobose, coriaceous or ligneous, locu- 
licidal, on account of septa being destroyed at maturity, finally often 
sub-1-locular; valves 5, inwardly glabrous. Seeds , subquadrate- 
cuneate, externally smooth, naked; testa crustaceous ; hilum usually 
large; embryo scantily albuminous or exalbuminous, fleshy, invo- 
lute-plicate, involving straight radicle.—Trees, often lofty ; coma 
dense ; leaves alternate, digitate ; folioles 3-9, sometimes articulate 
at base, entire; stipules deciduous ; flowers pedunculate, axillary, 
solitary ; bractlets 2, 8 (Tropical America,’ Madagascar 2), 
78. Adansonia L.‘—Calyx ovoid or oblong, finally subcampanu- 
late, 5-fid, inwardly silky, valvate, deciduous. Petals (malvaceous) 
much longer than calyx, oblong or obovate, convolute. Stamens o, 
column connate at base with corolla, afterwards separated into 
# -filaments, rather long, l-antheriferous; anthers terminal, reni- 
form, l-locular. Germen free; cells 5-10, c-ovulate; apex of 
style divided into 5-10 short branches, stigmatiferous, stellate- 
patent. Fruit oblong, sometimes obovoid or subglobose, ligneous, 
indehiscent; cells full of farinaceous pulp. Seeds ©, nidulant in pulp, 
finally dry, reniform, globose or angular; testa thick; hilum 
lateral; embryo scantily albuminous, arched ; cotyledons much 

1 Sometimes valvate at base, more or less in- t. 1412, 4508, 4549.—Watp., Rep., i. 329; ii. 
duplicate. 
2 Fascicles sometimes 2-seriate, exterior 5; 
interior stamens sometimes 1-adelphous at base. 
Filaments often irregular (4e, sometimes 3, 4, 
2-fid). 
3 Spec. ad 15. Cav., Diss., iii. 176, t. 72.— 
H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 301.—A. S. 
H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 258, t. 51.—Marr., Nov. 
Gen. et Spec.,i. t. 56.—Hook., Exot. Fi., ii. 
t. 100.—Casar., Nov. Stirp. Bras. Dec. 21. 
—GRISEB., F/. Brit. W.-Ind., 87.—Tr. & PL., 
in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 319.— Bot. Mag., 
793; v.95; Ann., ii. 159; vii. 416. 
% Gen. n. 836.—ADANS.,, Fam, des Pl., ii. 
399.—J., Gen., 275.—GÆRTN., Fruct., ii. 253, 
t. 135,—Lamx., Dict., i. 370; Suppl. i. 575; 
Il, t. 588.—DC., Prodr., i. 478.—Spacu, 
Suit. à Buffon, iii, 419.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5297. 
—H. BN., in Payer Fam. Nat., 286.—B. H., 
Gen., 209, n. 40.—Ophelus Lour., Fl. Co- 
chinch., 412.—Baobab., P. Arr, Ægypt., 66, 
t. 67.—Apans., in Act. Par, (1759), t. 1, 2; 
(1761), 218, t. 16, 17. 
