208 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
indehiscent. Seeds »; albumen copious or scanty ; embryo axile; 
cotyledons foliaceous or (in seeds scantily albuminous) thick, fleshy, 
slightly plano-convex.—Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate or more 
rarely opposite, simple, entire, sinuate or dentate penninerved ; 
stipules various or 0; flowers axillary, lateral or terminal, solitary 
or oftener cymose, sometimes cymose-racemose’ (Zrop. America, Aus- 
tralia, Asia and Madagascar’). See p. 180. 
36. Vallea Mur—Flowers 4—5-merous ; receptacle short, rather 
thick ; sepals valvate. Petals 3-lobed at apex, imbricate.* Stamens o, 
inserted by pairs on slightly thickened annulate glandular receptacle ; 
filament free; anthers basifixed erect, elongate 4-angled, sublaterally 
from apex to base more or less long rimose. Germen 3—5-locular ; 
ovules in cells 2, ascending; micropyle extrorse inferior; style subulate,” 
apex stigmatiferous, 3—5-lobed. Capsule muricate, externally locu- 
licidal 3-5-valved, rather fleshy, finally dry ; endocarp thick ligneous 
inwardly septiferous between valves. Seeds few, ellipsoid-oblong, 
shortly acuminate on both sides, exterior smooth ; embryo ?—Trees ; 
leaves alternate, ovate-cordate entire ; stipules foliaceous or reniform, 
sometimes 0; flowers terminal or axillary, few, racemose cymose 
pedunculate® (South West. Mountainous America’), See p. 180. 
37. Antholoma Lasiiu..—Flowers nearly of S/oanea » calyx 
gamophyllous subconical, apex 4- or more rarely 5-dentate, valvate, 

4 Lobes also imbricate with each other. 
5 Tubular, inwardly (at apex of dissepiments), 
imperfectly septate. 
6 Gen., notwithstanding habit, much better 
1 Does Phenicospermum javanicum MrQ., (in 
Ann. Mus, Jugd.-Bat., ii, 68, t. 3;—B. H., 
Gen., 987, n. 35 a), with 4-merous flowers of 
Sloanea and seeds nearly completely involute 
in miniate aril belong to this genus ? 
2 Spee. ad 40. Puium., Gen., 15 (Sloanea). 
—Sw., F1. Ind. Occ., ii, 938.—AUBL., loc. cit., 
t. 212,.—Hoox., Icon., t. 693, 696.—Moric., 
Pl. Nouv. Amér., t. 55 (Adenobasium).— 
Grises., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 98.—BENTH. F1. 
Austral., i. 279 (Echinocarpus).—Tr. & PL. 
in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii, 345.—SEEM., 
Voy. Her., Bot., 85, t. 15.—WALP., Ann, vil. 
452, 453 (Dasycarpus, Dasynema, Foveolaria), 
454 (Echinocarpus). 
3 Ex L. Fit, Suppl, 42.—DC., Prodr., i. 
520.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 49.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5389.—B. H., Gen., 238, n. 33.— 
Bocg,, in Adansonia, vii. 53. 
referred to section Tricuspidaria ? 
7 Spec. 2, 3 (v. all varieties of one?) R. & 
Pav., Prodr., t. 14.—H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 
Spec., v. 350, t. 489.—Turoz., in Bull. Mose. 
(1863), ii, 576.—TRr. & Pu, in Ann. Se. 
Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 357.— WaALP., Ann. vii. 
451. 
8 See ii. 266, t. 41; Pl. Nouv.-Holl., t. 41. 
—DC., Prodr., i. 565.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5462. 
—H. BN., in Adansonia, ii. 21, t. 1, figs. 1-6.— 
B. H., Gen., 239, 987, n. 36.—BocQ., in Adan- 
sonia, vii. 50. 
® Sometimes aborted polygamous ? 
