318 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Berry more or less coriaceous (dehiscent ?). Seeds few obovoid, some- 
times slightly incurved.—Shrubs; leaves alternate, usually rather 
nitid, in the same strips sometimes very polymorphous, impunctuate, 
articulate at base; stipules very small or 0 ; flowers axillary, solitary 
or few, cymose or glomerate (7ropical Oriental Continent, and Insular 
Africa’). 
19. Ruhlia H. B. K.’*—Flowers nearly of Ludia (or Scolopia) ; 
receptacle shortly cupuliform. Sepals 3, 5, slightly perigynous, and 
petals same in number alternate, inserted with and similar to them, 
all much imbricated, persistent. Stamens o, slightly perigynous 
(or interior all hypogynous), inserted above pagina of receptacle 
œ-seriate; filaments capillary free; anthers extrorse, exappendi- 
culate. Germen free central, l-locular, tapering into style above ; 
style at apex dilated, subentire or more or less deeply 3-5-lobed 
stigmatiferous ; placentas parietal 3-5 ; ovules on each o, descend- 
ing. Fruit (indehiscent ?) nearly of Zwdia or Scolopia; seeds (often 
outwardly undulate-striate) albuminous.—'Trees; leaves alternate, 
base sometimes oblique glandular-serrate ; petiole articulate at base ; 
stipules small; flowers’ in ramified, terminal or lateral cymiferous 
racemes* (V.-Grenada). 

20. Banara Avsu.’—Flowers nearly of Auhlia (or Scolopia), her- 
maphrodite or sometimes polygamous, 3—5-merous ; sepals valvate. 
Germen free; placentas 3-8, parietal, »-ovulate; apex of style 
capitellate stigmatiferous ; entire or 3-8-lobed. Berry, sometimes 
coriaceous, indehiscent ; seeds o, albuminous, exterior striate. 
Other characters of Awhlia.—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, 
often unequal at base, often glandular-serrate, sometimes pellucid- 
punctuate ; petiole often 2-glandular at apex, articulate at base ; 

1 Spec. 3, v. 4. Cros, loc. cif. (part.).—TUL., 
in Ann. Se. Nat., sér, 5, ix.334.—WALpP., Ann., 
vil. 226. 
6 Guian., i. 547, t. 217.—J., Gen., 293.— 
—Lamx., Dict., i. 366; Jil., t. 464.—DC., 
Prodr., 1. 259.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5073.—CLos, 
2 Nov. Gen. et Spec., vii. 234, t. 652, 653,— 
Enpu., Gen., n. 5074.—B. H., Gen., 798, n. 7. 
—H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 255. 
# Small or very minute, whitish. 
4 A genus Tr. & Pr. referred not rightly to 
the very similar Banara ; it differs from it espe- 
cially in its nonvalvate calyx and structure of 
seed, 
5 Spec. ad 3. Tr. & Px., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 
sér. 4, xvii. 101 (Banara).—Watpr., Rep., i. 
204; v. 56. 
in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, viii. 289.— BENTH., in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl, 90.—B. H. Gen., 
798, 1007, n. 6.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 
255.—Pineda R. & Pav., Prodr., 76, t. 14; 
Syst, i. 183.—DC., Prodr. ii, 54,—Don, in 
Edinb. N, Philos. Journ., x. 116.—ENDt., Gen., 
n. 5075.—Ascra Sonort, in Spreng. Syst., Cur. 
Post., 407.—Xyladenius DESVX., in Ham, Prodr. 
Fl. Ind. Occ., 41.—Boca VELLOZ.,, Fl. Flum., 
v. t. 113.—Christannia PRESL, Rel. Henk., ii. 
91, t. 67.—Enpu., Gen., n. 5077. 
