166 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
88. Coelostegia Brenru.'—Flowers small hermaphrodite; recep- 
tacle concave obconical,apex expanded 5-saccate ring; calyx inserted at 
the margin of receptacle (afterwards perigynous’), lobes 5, short erect 
valvate. Petals 5, perigynous, inserted with calyx. Stamens o (of 
Boschia) ; anthers small globose, sometimes solitary or 2-6 congested. 
Germen large, partly inferior, immersed in receptacle, 5-locular; ovules 
2 or few in each cell, ascending; micropyle extrorse inferior ; style 
filiform, apex peltate, 3-lobed stigmatiferous. Fruit...?—A lofty 
tree ; habit and leaves (of Boschia) integerrimus, coriaceous, minutely 
squamose-lepidote beneath, petiolate; flowers close to branches 
cymose-fasciculate ; each surrounded by short involucre lepidote 
(together with calyx and pedicels) (A/a/aya’), See p. 105. 

1 Gen., 213, n. 59. ? Receptacle regarded as base of calyx cf, BENTHAM. 
3 Spec. 1. C. Griffithii BENTH., loc. cit. 
