TILIACEZ. 205 
31. Plagiopteron Grirr.'—Sepals 3-5, minute dentiform. Petals 
3—5, longer, sepaloid, valvate, finally reflexed. Stamens ~ ; filaments 
subfree ; anthers 2-locular, subbasifixed, longitudinally rimose above. 
Germen 3, 4-locular ; style subulate, apex stigmatiferous, scarcely 
thickened, entire; ovules in each cell 2 ascending; micropyle 
extrorse inferior. Fruit dry obpyramidal, oftener turbinate-3-que- 
trous, apex expanded in 3, 4 horizontal wings, and finally separating 
into 3, 4 cocci (indehiscent ?)—A scandent shrub; leaves usually 
opposite,’ petiolate, entire ; stipules minute or 0; flowers’ in pedun- 
culate ramified cymiferous racemes (Hast Ind.‘). See p. 176. 
32 ? Solmsia H. By.’—F lowers diæcious ; calyx subcampanulate, 
4-fid, valvate. Corolla 0. Male flower 8-androus ; stamens 4 oppo- 
site calyx lobes; 4 others alternate; filaments under rudimentary 
gyneceum hypogynous free; anthers 2-locular, extrorse, longitudi- 
nally rimose. Germen sterile, 4-locular ; style small, apex minute 
capitate. In female flowers stamens sterile, apex glandular. Germen 
4-locular ; ovule solitary in each cell, inserted at the summit of 
internal angle, descending; micropyle extrorse superior. Capsule 
obpyramidal, tapering at base, surrounded by persistent calyx, loculi- 
cidal 3, 4-valved; valves inwardly septiferous at middle. Seeds 
oblong compressed, outwardly fleshy, scantily pilose; chalaza produced 
below in acute aril; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile cylindrical ; cotyle- 
dons oblong slightly wider than tigella.—Small trees or shrubs, 
partly fulvous or golden-velvety ; leaves alternate, simple attenuate 
at base, exstipulate, penninerved ; primary nerves crowded oblique ; 
flowers at the summit of twigs or in axils of upper leaves in small 
compound cymiferous racemes (NV. Caledonia’). See p. 176. 
IV. ELÆOCARPEZÆ. 
33. Elæocarpus L.—Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 1-sex- 
ual 4, 5-merous; receptacle produced beyond perianth in a column, 
1 In Calcutt. Journ., iv. 244, t. 13.—B. H., ‘ Spec. 1. P. fragrans GRIFF., loc. cit.— 
Gen., 238, n. 31.—Bocg., in Adansonia, vii. Watp., Rep., v. 370. 
35. 5 In Adansonia, x. 34, 
? Sometimes certainly alternate, 5 Spec. 2, or 3, unless all varieties of one, H. 
3 Small, oderiferous, Br., Adansonia, x, 196. 
