180 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
very near that of the corolla, only being separated from it by a 
narrow glandular cushion. The sepals may be slightly imbricated ; 
and the petals, sometimes thick and coriaceous, may be but little cut, 
or even entire at the summit, sometimes covered with silky hairs. 
The stamens are sometimes muticous; the number of the ovary 
cells, often incomplete, may rise to three, four or five; and each 
one can only contain two ascending ovules, with exterior and in- 
ferior micropyle. In the fruit, the wrinkles of the endocarp, which 
is generally very hard, woody or bony, may become so deep as to 
appear carved, The number of the cells contained in the stone 
may be from two to five, generally monospermous, the fertile 
seed being either ascending or descending, and the others aborting 
early. /ocarpus consists of trees or shrubs, hitherto only observed 
in the warm regions of Asia, Oceania, and in the tropical islands 
of eastern Africa. The leaves are alternate or rarely opposite, entire 
or dentate, generally accompanied by two small lateral stipules.’ 
The flowers are axillary or terminal, usually arranged in racemes, 
and each placed in the axil of a bract, with two lateral bractlets. 
Some sixty species are known.’ 
Beside Hlzocarpus is found Crinodendron, which only differs from 
it essentially by the consistence of the capsular fruit. These two 
genera represent the Æ/æocarpeæ proper, in which the receptacle 
displays, between the insertion of the androceum and that of the 
perianth, a more or less considerable elongation, the surface being 
furnished with a layer of glandular tissue of greater or lesser thick- 
ness. S/oanea has given its name to another group, or subseries, 
in which, on the contrary, the receptacle is not at all elevated 
between the insertion of the corolla and the stamens; or it takes the 
form of a cushion or of a thick dome, in the infractuous parts of 
which the stamens are inserted. Beside Val/ea is placed, only 
differing from it very slightly; it has thin three-lobed petals, 

1 Sometimes the limb is black punctuate in 
its lower part. 
2 Cav., Icon, t. 501.—Wieut & ARN, 
Prodr., i. 83.—WIGuT, TJil., t. 35; Icon. t. 
46, 61-66, 205, 952.—Cozr., Hort. Rip., t. 30. 
(Zriostemon). — Hook. & Arn., Voy. Beech, 
Bot., t. 24, 53.—Hoox., Zcon., t. 154, 155, 602. 
—Raouz., Ch. de Pl. Nouv.-Zél., t. 25.—MrQ., 
Fl. Ind.-Bat.,i. p. ii. 307; Suppl, i. 406.— 
Turez., in Bull, Mose. (1858), i. 235.—BENTH., 
Fil, Austral,, i. 280.—SrEM., in Bonplandia, 
x. 154, 295; Fl. Vit., 27, t. 78.—A. Gray, 
Amer, Expl. Exped., Bot., 202.—Ap. Br. & 
Gr., in Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr., viii. 201; in 
Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 5, i. 355.—Watp., Rep., 
i. 363, 364; ii. 800; v. 120,121; Ann., i. 112, 
959; ii, 173; iv. 330; vii. 455, 
