206 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
sometimes very short, disco-glandular-dilated at apex. Sepals free 
(sometimes coloured), valvate or slightly imbricate. Petals alternate, 
base inwardly naked or furnished with small glands, either entire or 
much oftener lobed, or laciniate, sometimes coriaceous subpetaloid, 
induplicate valvate, each involving stamens. Stamens either few 
placed in phalanges 2—4-androus before each petal; alternipetalous, 
sometimes 4, 5 each; or alternipetalous 0, and 25-30, or placed 
in phalanges 4, 5, or 6-androus ; filaments erect ; anthers subbasifixed 
elongated, apex muticous or more usually with aristate or cuspidate 
connective; cells linear introrse or sublateral, more or less long 
rimose from apex ; clefts usually confluent at apex (dehiscing in valves, 
afterwards 3-angular). Germen sessile; style subulate entire, stig- 
matiferous at apex; cells 2-5, complete or incomplete; ovules 2, 
ascending, or ©. Drupe 1-pyrenous; putamen usually ligneous, hard, 
or osseous tuberculate, 1-5-locular. Seed usually solitary in each cell, 
ascending or descending; testa rather thick; albumen fleshy ; em- 
bryo axile ; cotyledons wide, flat, or undulate.—Trees or shrubs ; leaves 
alternate or more rarely opposite, entire or dentate ; stipules small 
or 0; flowers axillary or terminal, solitary, or oftener racemose 1-brac- 
teate; bractlets usually 2 (Zrop. Ins. Asia, and Oceanic Trop. East. 
Africa.) Seep. 177: 
34. Crinodendron Mon. —Calyx 5-merous valvate ; sepals 5 den- 
tate in sac, afterwards unequally torn and deciduous, connate or free 
sooner or later near base (7}icuspidariæ). Petals 5, alternate, entire or 
sometimes 3-dentate or 3-lobed, induplicate-valvate, and each in- 
volving exterior stamens. Stamens oc, unequally inserted on corolla, 
more or less elevated beyond receptacle in column, usually short, some- 
times outwardly dilated glandular at apex ; anthers linear introrse or 
sublateral; cells often from apex and finally to the base longitudinally 
rimose ; connective sometimes apiculate beyond cells. Germen 3-5- 
locular; cells œ-ovulate; style subulate, apex entire or scarcely 
dilated stigmatiferous. Capsule coriaceous or ligneous, usually an- 
‘ 
gular, loculicidal 3—5-valved or more rarely also more or less 

1 Chil. (1782), 314.—Cay., Diss., v. 300, t. 112—DC., Prodr., i. 520.—Enpu., Gen. n. 
158.—Enpt., Gen., n, 5391.—H. BN., in Adan- 5390.—B. H., Gen., 240, n. 40.— Boca. in 
sonia, x. 196. Adansonia., vii, 54.—Tricuspis Prns., Vachirid., 
2 R. & Pav., Prodr., (1794), 64, t. 36; Syst, ii. 9. 
