204 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
caducous ; male flowers in terminal cymiferous racemes, bracteate or 
minute-leaved ; female flowers few or solitary’ (Zrop. America’). See 
p. 176. 
III. PROCKIEÆ. 
29. Prockia P. Br.—Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle slightly 
convex. Sepals 3, or more rarely 4, 5, valvate, persistent. Petals 
same in number or fewer, sepaloid, often small, sometimes imbri- 
cate, or 0. Stamens ©, free o-seriate; anthers small, subglobose or 
sub-4-agonal, sublaterally 2-rimose. Germen free, 4, 5-locular; style 
subulate subentire, stigmatiferous at apex; ovules in each cell ©, 
inserted on thick placenta, sometimes 2-lobed. Fruit baccate, in- 
dehiscent. Seeds  , small, nidulant in pulp; testa crustaceous ; al- 
bumen fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons thick, subovate, slightly 
wider than straight radicle-—Shrubs ; leaves alternate-serrate, o- 
nerved at base; stipules lateral, unequal at base ; flowers in short, 
simple or cymose terminal racemes (Zrop. America). See p. 176. 
30. Hasseltia H. B. K.*—Flowers nearly of Prockia; sepals 4, 
5, more rarely 3, valvate, finally reflexed persistent. Petals same in 
number, sepaloid, similarly reflexed and persistent with calyx, valvate 
or imbricated at apex in bud. Stamens  ; filaments free, inserted on 
small discoid receptacle ; anthers small extrorse sub-4-agonal, rimose 
at margin. Germen 2- or more rarely 3-locular; cells complete or 
finally incomplete, «-ovulate ;* style subulate, stigmatiferous scarcely 
dilated, sub-3-lobed. Fruit subbaccate, indehiscent; seeds few, de- 
scending ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons plano-folia- 
ceous.—Trees ; leaves 3-5-nerved, 2-glandular at base; flowers 
crowded’ in terminal ramified clusters of corymbiform cymes (77r0p. 
America’). See p.176. 

1 Genus with dicecious flowers much resembling 
Carpodiptera (among Brownlowiæ) ditfering by 
its short stipitate androceum, anther-cells not 
confluent, and ovary as it seems not winged, and 
especially in calyx partite as far as base (not as in 
Brownlowiæ campanulate gamophyllous), Cha- 
racters afterwards like Grewia; it also resembles 
ÆEuphorbiacea in flowers and habit. 
* Spec. 1. V. alchorneoides H. Bn., loc. cit. 
3 Nov. Gen. et Spec., vii, 231, t. 601,.— 
ENDL., Gen., n. 5360.—B. H., Gen., 238, n. 30. 
—BocQ., in Adansonia, vii. 41. 
4 Ovules inserted on exterior side of obovate 
ascending placenta, ascending. 
5 Small. 
5 Spec. 3. Bentu., Pl. Hartweg., 164.— 
Tr. & Pu., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 344,— 
Watp., Rep., i, 352; Ann., i. 110. 
