264 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
superior. Fruit indehiscent, apiculate, furnished with base of calyx ; 
pericarp thin or more or less spongiose-suberose ; seeds oo, hippo- 
crepiform complicate ; albumen fleshy, sometimes thin or 0 ; embryo 
arched or refiexed; cotyledons semiterete, shorter than superior 
radicle-—Trees or evergreen shrubs; leaves alternate simple ex- 
stipulate coriaceous, entire or serrate-crenate ; flowers axillary soli- 
tary pedunculate or cymose 2-w ; bracts under flower 2, 3, ana- 
logous to sepals (Zrop. America, Asia, Ind. Arch.). See p. 239. 
9, Adinandra Jacx.’— Flowers nearly of 7ernstræmia; stamens 
free or 1-5-adelphous at base ; filaments often hirsute. Germen 3-5- 
locular ; style entire or 3-5-fid stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in 
each cell «, crowded, affixed to rather prominent placenta. Fruit 
indehiscent; seeds &, small; embryo albuminous; inflexed coty- 
ledons semiterete, shorter than superior radicle.—Evergreen trees ;* 
leaves alternate; flowers’ axillary pedunculate solitary ; peduncle 
short or recurved, 2-bracteolate at apex (Zrop. Asia, Trop. Africa’). 
10. Eroteum Sw.’— Flowers nearly of Zernstræmia, herma- 
phrodite or polygamous ; stamens 15—, usually adnate to corolla 
at base; anthers glabrous or sometimes (C/eyera') pilose. Germen 
2, 3-locular or more rarely 5-locular (Le¢tsomia’); ovules ©, inserted 
within at middle of cell or slightly above, descending ; style more or 
less high, sometimes deeply (Zristy/ium*) 2-5-fd. Fruit indehiscent ; 
seeds ordinary ; albumen fleshy ; embryo inflexed; cotyledons semi- 
terete, shorter than radicle-—''rees or shrubs ; habit of Zernstræmia or 
Eurya; leaves more or less coriaceous glabrous tomentose or setose, 
sometimes (as in C#/ænacea) with lines impressed by induplicate- 

1 In Hook. Compan. to Bot. Mag., i. 153,— 
ENDI., Gen., n. 5428.—CHo1s., in Mém. Gen., 
xiv. 111.—B. H., Gen., 182, n. 9.—Sarosan- 
thera KoRTH., in Verh. Nat, Gesch. Bot., 103, 
t. 16 (ex B. H.). 
2 Habit sometimes of Ternstramia, sometimes 
of Gordonia, 
3 Large, glabrous or silky. 
4 Spec. 10, of which 1 is African. Hook. & 
Arn., Voy. Beech. Bot. t. 23 (Cleyera).— 
Kortu., loc, cit., t. 18,—MrQ., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 
p. ii. 476; Suppl., i. 478.—Tuw., Enum. Pl, 
Zeyl., 41 (Sarosanthera). — Outv., Fl. Trop. 
Afr., i. 170.—-Watp., Rep., v. 130 (Sarosan- 
thera) ; Ann., vii. 362. 
5 Prodr., 85 (1788).— Freziera Sw., Fl. Ind. 
Oce., 671, t. 19 (1800).—DC., in Mem. Gen., i. 
414; Prodr., i. 524.—CamBess., in Mém. Mus., 
xvi. 404,.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 63.— 
Enpu., Gen., n. 5412.—Cuots., in Mém. Gen., 
xiv. 120.—B. H., Gen., 183, n. 11. 
5 DC. Prodr., i. 524 (nec THUNB.). — 
Camsiss., in Mém. Mus., xvi. 405,— DC. 
Prodr., i, 525 (part.)— Enpu., Gen., n. 5411. 
—Cnuols., in Mém. Gen., xiv. 109.—B. H. 
Gen., 183, n. 10.—Hoferia Scor., Introd., n. 
846 (ex ENDz., loc. cit.). 
7 R. & Pav., Prodr., 77, t. 14.—Cxnois., in 
Mém. Gen., xiv. 123. 
8 Turoz,, in Bull. Mose. (1858), i. 247. 
