BIXACEZ. 315 
albuminous; radicle short; cotyledons foliaceous suborbiculate.— 
Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, sub- 
serrate, not punctuate; stipules minute, deciduous ; flowers small in 
terminal compound racemes; bracts and bractlets small, approxi- 
mate, in short involucel (Zeylania and Philippine Islds.’). 
13? Euceræa Marr.*— Flowers very small ; calyx lobes 4, imbri- 
cated. Stamens 8; 4 alternate, shorter; filaments alternate with 
elongated squamules, barbate at apex, connate in short ring. Germen 
free; style very short; stigma subsessile, radiated, 4—6-partite ; 
ovules 1, 2, ascending. Berry dry, indehiscent; seeds 1, 2, oblique, 
ascending; base furnished with lacerate aril—A small glabrous 
tree ; leaves alternate oblong serrate ; stipules deciduous ; flowers* in 
ramified compound axillary spikes (Worth Brazil)” 
14. Lunania Hoox.’—Flowers (nearly of Guédonia) apetalous, her- 
maphrodite or more rarely polygamous ; receptacle shortly cupulate. 
Calyx subglobose membranous, valvate, finally divided into 2-5 
sepals, patent or reflexed. Stamens 6-12, inserted with squamules 
same in number, entire or 2-fid, alternate and connate in short 
cupule at base; filaments free, short or elongate; anthers introrse, 
ovoid or oblong, 2-rimose. Germen central free, 1-locular, at apex 
more or less hians between bases of 3 styles, short, dilated, sub- 
2-lobed stigmatiferous at apex; placentas parietal 3, alternate with 
styles, wide, o-ovulate. Capsule subcoriaceous oligospermous, 
3-valved ; seeds nearly of Samyda.—Trees ; branches flexuose ; leaves 
alternate petiolate, 3-5-nerved, minutely pellucid-punctuate ; flowers 
small, crowded in slender elongated racemes, axillary or terminal, 
simple or ramified, nodding; pedicels articulate at base, minutely 
ow -bracteate (West India and Peru). 
15. Tetrathylacium Pape. & Enpu.’? —Flowers polygamous- 

1 Spec. 3, 4. BENTH., in Journ. Linn, Soc., 
v. Suppl., 88.—Tuw., Hnum. Pl. Zeyl., 20. 
2 Nov. Gen. et Spec., iii. 90, t. 238.—ENDt., 
Gen., n. 5060!, Suppl. i, 1420.—B. H., Gen. 
797, n. 3. 
3 Small, white. 
4 Spec. 1. Æ. nitida MART., loc. cit —WArP., 
Rep., v. 407. 
$ In Lond. Journ. of Bot., iii. 517, t. 11, 12. 
—Benru., in Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 89.— 
B. H., Gen., 797, n. 4. 
5 Spec. 5, of which 4 are from the Antilles.— 
Grises., Fl, Brit. W.-Ind., 20; Pl. Amer. Trop., 
26; Pl. Wright. Cub., 155; Cat. Pl. Cub., 7. 
7 Nov. Gen. et Spec., iii. 34, t. 240.—B. H., 
Gen., 119, n. 14.—Tr. & PL., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 
sér, 4, xvii. 105.—Edmonstonia SEEM., Voy. 
Her., Bot., 98, t. 18. 
