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style simple, apex stigmatiferous not thickened or scarcely so, sub- 
entire, or very shortly denticulate (/ayna'), sometimes slightly lobed 
or lobes stronger ascending or radiated, separate or peltate coalescing ; 
3—7-fid ; lobes entire or more or less laciniate (Carpotroche*), more 
rarely much ramified (Dendrostylis’). Fruit subbaccate, more or less 
coriaceous and finally ligneous, smooth (Zvoncoba), sulcate or marked 
with elevated ribs, sometimes echinate, tubercuiate or muricate 
(Mayna), more rarely longitudinally o-winged; wings tuberculate 
(Carpotroche), sometimes submembranous crested (Grandidiera’) ; peri- 
carp more rarely outwardly much echinate (Dendrostylis), usually 
indehiscent, sometimes with difficulty dehiscing or in valves. Seed 
o of various forms; testa crustaceous, sometimes outwardly more or 
less pulpous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo (sometimes coloured) straight 
or incurved cotyledons subovate foliaceous——Trees or shrubs un- 
armed or armed with axillary spines, glabrous or pubescent; leaves 
alternate, entire crenate, or serrate; stipules linear, small or 0; 
flowers’ solitary, terminal or axillary, sometimes in axillary racemes, 
more rarely growing from wood of trunk or one year-old branches, 
lateral (44 Tropical Regions’). 
II. FLACOURTIEZÆ. 
3. Flacourtia Commers.—F lowers dicecious or polygamous apeta- 
lous ; sepals 4, 5, often squamiform ciliate, much imbricated, some- 
times in female flower very small or slightly bractiform. Disk 
glandular annular more or less thick, entire or 4, 5-lobed. Stamens 
co (in female flower 0, or sterile), 
disk of receptacle; filaments free ; 
inserted in more or less depressed 
anthers extrorse, 2-locular, after- 

1 Aust, Guian. (1775), 921, t. 352 (nec 
Rapp.).—J., Gen., 281.—Lamkx., Iil., t. 491.— 
DC., Prodr., i. 79.—ENDL., Gen. n. 4734.— 
Bentu., in Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 80.— 
Oz1v., in Journ, Linn. Soc., ix. 172. — Lin- 
dackeria Prest, Rel. Henk., ii. 89, t. 65.— 
Expz., Gen., n. 5064. 
2 Enpz., Gen., n. 5066.—Mayna Ravp., Pl. 
Nov. Bras., 23 (nec AUBL.). 
3 Karst. & TR., in Linnea, xxviii. 431. — 
BentH., in Journ, Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 82.— 
B: H., Gen., 125, n. 7. 
4 Jaug., in Bull, Soc. Bot. de Fr., xii, 467.— 
Ou1v, Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 119.—H. BN., in 
Adansonia, x. 250. 
5 Large, handsome, or ordinary, more rarely 
small, whitish, or yellow. 
5 Spec. about 25, of which 15 are American. 
Parr. & Enpu., Nov. Gen. et Spec., iii. 63, t. 
270 (Lindackeria), 64, t. 271 (Mayna).— CLos, 
in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 4, viii. 262 (Mayna).— 
Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., i. 66.—GUILLEM, & 
Perr., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. t. 10.—Stes. & Zuce., 
Pl. Nov. Fase., ii. t. 5 (Mayna).—A. Gray, 
Amer. Expl. Exp, Bot., i. 12 (Carpotroche).— 
Outv., Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 114,—Kansr., Fl. 
Columb., ii. p. ii. t. 106 (Zindackeria).—Tr. & 
Pr, in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii, 94 (Mayna), 
95 (Dendrostylis). — Watr., Ann. vii. 223 
(Chlanis, Mayna), 224 (Dendrostylis). 

