196 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
petiolate ovate-oblong serrate acuminate, base cordate 3—5-nerved ; 
stipules large obovate connate in a persistent ocreiform cupule ; 
flowers in pedunculate axillary cymes ; peduncles 2-chotomous ; pedi- 
cels 2-bracteolate at base ; bractlets 3, formed into an involucel under 
flower” (Fiji Islands'). See p. 172. 
16. Mollia Marr. & Zucc.2—Flowers 5-merous; sepals valvate. 
Petals alternate, naked at base, subentire, valvate, or more or less 3-fid 
and subimbricate at apex ; ribs sometimes rather prominent within. 
Stamens o, inserted with petals, 10-adelphous; phalanges 5 
oppositipetalous and 5 alternate, large; filaments finally free ;* 
anthers narrow, subsagittate; cells linear-introrse or sublateral, 
longitudinally rimose, connective sometimes apiculate. Germen 
superior ; cells 2, complete or incomplete, o-ovulate ; style slender ; 
apex stigmatiferous, obtuse. Capsule 2-locular, elongate, expanded 
at apex into short curved marginal wing, compressed contrarily to 
narrow septum, loculicidal, semi-2-valved, falsely septate between 
seeds. Seeds transverse compressed; albumen? ; embryo straight ; 
cotyledons flat, membranous.—Trees ; leaves alternate, entire or 
serrate; stipules laterally 2-nate; flowers‘ axillary, solitary, or in 
eymes, sometimes l-parous (Zropical America’). See p. 172. 
17. Sparmannia L. r.'—Sepals 4, of which 2 are lateral, some- 
times petaloid, valvate. Petals 4, alternate, naked at base, imbricate. 
Stamens o, inserted with perianth ; filaments at base connate in 
4 alternipetalous phalanges, otherwise free; exterior, antherless, 
glandular-undulate or moniliform above, interior longer, torulose, 
fertile; anthers introrse, finally versatile, 2-rimose. Germen 
superior ; cells 4 or more rarely 5-8, complete or incomplete, oc-ovu- 

Spec. 1. G. calyculata SEE. loc. cif. 
Nov. Gen. et Spec., i. 96, t. 60—SPACH, 
Suit. à Buffon, iv. 42,—EnpDu., Gen., n. 5366. 
— BENTH., in Journ. Linn, Soc., v. Suppl, 59.— 
B. H., Gen., 236, n. 21.—H. BN., in Payer Fam. 
Nat., 276.—Bocg., in Adansonia, vii. 58.— 
Schlechtendalia SPRENG., Syst. Cur, Post., 295 
(nec W., nec LEss.). 
3 A few sterile ones sometimes intermixed. 
1 
2 

4 White, beautiful. 
5 Spec. ad 6. Watp., Rep. i. 353; v. 117. 
6 Suppl., 41.—J., Gen., 290.—LaAMK. Dict., 
vii. 308; ZE, t. 468.—RETz.,, Obs., v. t. 3.— 
DC., Prodr., i, 503.—Sracn, Suit. à Buffon, 
iv. 5.—Enpt., Gen., n. 5369.— PAYER, Or- 
ganog., 22, t. 5.—H. BN., in Payer Fam. Nat. 
275.—B. H., Gen, 235, n. 16.—BocQ. in 
Adansonia, vii. 38. 
