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stipules minute; flowers' in simple or oftener compound cymiferous 
racemes, short or elongated; pedicels bracteolate (Zrop. America’). 
21. Aphloia Brnn.*—Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous; recep- 
tacle cupuliform, interior furnished with thin disk. Sepals 4, 5, 
much imbricated.‘ Stamens , inserted with slightly perigynous 
calyx outside the disk; filaments free, corrugate-inflexed in bud ; 
anthers short, introrse, 2-rimose, finally exserted. _Germen subcen- 
tral, free sessile, produced in short style, peltate-stigmatiferous 
wide at apex; ovules o, usually few, inserted in 2 series on parietal 
placentas, horizontal campylotropous.’ Fruit baccate, finally often 
dry, dehiscent(?); seeds few, obovoid-incurved; testa crustaceous ; 
albumen thin; embryo incurved; cotyledons ovate. — Trees or 
shrubs ; leaves’ alternate articulated entire, dentate or polymorphous 
and variously inciso-lobed ; flowers axillary, solitary or few, sessile 
or pedicellate (Zrop. Eastern Ins. Africa’). 
22. Azara R. & Pav.®—Flowers apetalous hermaphrodite or more 
rarely polygamous; receptacle depressed or rather concave.’ Sepals 
4 or more rarely 5, 6, valvate or more rarely more or less imbricated.” 
Stamens , in phalanges equal in number to sepals, and superposed 
to them ; filaments in each or more rarely subdefinite in num- 
ber ;" the lateral often with the exterior gradually smaller, and some- 
times antherless ; anthers short, 2-locular, extrorse, 2-rimose. Glan- 
dules 4—6, placed before sepals free, or connate at base in subperi- 
gynous disk. Germen free (in male flower rudimentary), inserted in 

1 Small, sometimes virescent, pubescent or 
tomentose. 
2 Spec. ad 12. Parr. & Enpt., Nov. Gen. et 
Spec., iii. 74, t. 285 (Kuhlia).—Tuz., in Ann. 
Sc. Nat., sér. 3, vii. 288.—GRISEB., Fl. Brit. 
W.-Ind., 22 (Trilix)—Tr. & Pu., in Ann. Se. 
Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 100 (part.).—Watp., Rep., i. 
204, 205 (Pineda) ; ii. 765; Ann., i. 61. 
3 Pl. Jav. Rar., 192.—ENDL., Gen., n, 50722 
—Cxos, in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, viii, 271, 273. 
—BENTH., in Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 85.— 
B. H., Gen., 126, n. 11.—H. BN., in Adansonia, 
x. 253.—Neumannia A, Ricu., Fl. Cub., 96, 
not. (nec AD. Br.). 
4 Usually thinly spotted. 
5 Raphe short, micropyle extrorse lateral; 
coats double. 
5 When dry, often pale lutescent-virescens. 
7 Spec. 2, 3. Porr., Dict., v. 627 (Prockia). 
—Lamkx., Il, t. 465, fig. 3 (Prockia).— VAHL, 
Symb. Bot., ii. 69, 70 (Lightfootia).—Tut., in 
Ann. Sc, Nat., sér. 5, ix. 431 (Aphlæa).—Waxr., 
Ann., vii. 226. 
8 Prodr., 79, t. 36.—Porr., Dict., Suppl., i. 
550.—DC., Prodr., i. 262.—ENpL., Gen. n. 
5075.—Paver, Fam. Nat., 110.—Berntu., in 
Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 85.—B. H., Gen., 
127, 972, n. 14.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 
525.—Lilenia BERTER. in Bull. Sc. Nat., xx. 
108 (ex Enpt.).—TZetracocyne TuRoz., in Bull. 
Mosc. (1863), i. 555. 
® Sometimes outside below insertion of calyx 
thickened in ring. 
10 Sometimes finally fleshy, or inwardly pilose. 
HN «Tn A, microphylla (Hoox. ¥., Fl. Ant. 
ii. t. 244, not.), stam. defin. cum sepal. altern. et 
gland. totid. sepal. oppos., ut in Homalineis, sed 
stam. vix perig., et cet. omm, cum Azara con- 
veniunt.” (B. H., loc. cit.) 
