310 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
wards versatile, rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary or 
usually 0) free, falsely 2-2 -locular ; styles 2-w , separate or con- 
nate at base to greater or less height, apex stigmatiferous blunt or 
2-lobed ; ovules in internal angle of cell 2—s0 , descending ; micropyle 
extorse superior. Fruit drupaceous; endocarp in putamen Q—ao, 
seeds separate indurated. Seeds often obovoid ; testa subcoriaceous ; 
embryo albuminous, cotyledons suborbiculate.—Trees or shrubs, 
often spinescent; leaves alternate, dentate or serrate ; petiole arti- 
etlated at base; stipules very small; flowers small in small racemes 
or glomerules axillary and terminal, simple or compound, sometimes 
subumbellate (Asia, Africa, and Warm Australia). See p. 276. 
4. Xylosma Forsr.'—Flowers (nearly of /acourtia) dicecious or 
sometimes polygamous; receptacle shortly conical. Sepals 4-6, 
sometimes squamiform, often ciliate, imbricated. Disk within calyx 
glandular-fleshy unequally lobed. Stamens œ, sometimes few, within 
disk ; filaments free, usually finally exserted ; anthers extrorse, finally 
often versatile; cells longitudinally rimose. Germen (in male 
flower 0) within disk free (more rarely surrounded by a few stami- 
nodes), 1-locular; style subentire or divided into 2-6 branches to a 
greater or less length, apex dilated stigmatiferous ; placentas parietal 
2-6, alternating with style branches, ovules in each placenta 1, 2, or 
few, either all ascending ; micropyle (obturate) introrse inferior ; or 
1, 2, superior, descending. Berry small, indehiscent ; seeds 1, 2, or 
few; testa crustaceous; embryo albaminous; cotyledons wide.— 
Trees or shrubs,’ often spinescent; leaves alternate, dentate, or more 
rarely entire, articulate at base ; stipules small ; flowers’ growing on 
the wood or glomerate at axils or in short racemose cymes; pedicel 
slender, sometimes articulated* (47 Tropical and Subtropical Regions’). 

1 Prodr., 72.—Lamx., Jil., t. 827.—Porr., Wood sometimes odoriferons. 
Dict., viii, 817.—Enpu., Gen. n. 5081!.— Small, filaments sometimes purple. 
Cros, in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 4, viii, 127.— 4 Plants in gardens falsely parthenogenesic, 
2 
3 
BeEntH., in Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 86.— 
B. H., Gen. 128, n. 19.—Myroxylon Forsr., 
Char. Gen, 125, t. 63 (nec L. r.).—Hisingera 
HELLEN., in Act. Holm. (1792), 32, t. 2.— 
Expz., Gen., n. 5815.—CLos, loc. cit., 220.— 
Bessera SPRENG., Pl, Pugill., ii. 90 (ex ENDL). 
—Roumea Poir.,in Mém. Mus., i. 62, t. 4.— 
Crepaloprumnon Karst., Pl. Fl, Colomb,, 123, 
t. 161, 162. 
(See Adansonia, v. 63). 
5 Spec. ad 25. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., 
vii. t. 654 (Placourtia).—Porr., in Mém. Mus., 
i. 62, t. 4 (Roumea).—Sres. & Zucc., Fl. Jap., 
t. 88 (Hisingera).— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 
p. ii, 105.—A. Gray, Amer. Expl. Exp., 
Bot., i. 76.—Watp., Ann., iv. 108; vii. 229, 
230 (Hisingera, Cræpaloprumnon). 
