322 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
ceous ; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo straight, radicle cylindrical 
superior ; cotyledons flat.—Small trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, 
2-stichous, persistent ; petiole articulate at base ; stipules 2, lateral 
caducous ; limb simple, penninerved, sometimes pellucid-punctuate ; 
flowers in crowded unequal axillary spikes; bracts alternate, 
l-flowered ; bractlets 2, lateral linear, often formed like sepals and 
usually narrower (Zrop. America). See p. 282. 
V. CALANTICEA. 
26. Calantica Jaus.—Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle widely 
cupuliform. Sepals 5-8, perigynously inserted at margin of recep- 
tacle, valvate. Disk within receptacle, and outwardly dilated at 
apex into lobes concave or marginate opposite sepals and adnate to 
them. Petals 5-8, perigynous linear, or more rarely 0 (Bivinia). 
Stamens same in number, alternating with petals, perigynous, but 
inserted a little below petals, sometimes  (Svvinia), in alterni- 
petalous fascicles; filaments free; anthers 2-locular, extrorse, 2- 
rimose. Germen central free, 1-locular ; styles 3-6, apex stigma- 
tiferous linear; placentas 3-6, o-ovulate. Capsule ovoid, 3-6- 
valved; seeds ©, inserted at middle of valve, external cottony ; 
testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy; embryo straight, radicle terete ; 
cotyledons foliaceous, ovate or subcordate.—Trees ; leaves alternate, 
petiolate, simple, glandular-serrate or crenate; stipules small; 
flowers small, in compound cymiferous racemes ; bracts and bractlets 
setaceous, often with calyx silky (Zrop. Eastern Cont. and Ins. Africa). 
See p. 284. 
27. Dissomeria Brnru.'—Receptacle shortly cupuliform. Sepals 
4, imbricate. Petals 8, series double inserted with shorter calyx, 
imbricated, persistent. Glandules same in number, alternate, peri- 
gynous, marginate on disk. Stamens ©, in oppositipetalous fascicles ; 
filaments filiform, much pilose ; anthers subglobose. Germen sub- 
free, hirsute, l-locular; styles 3, filiform, stigmatiferous at apex, 
acute; parietal placentas 3, 4; ovules a few inserted at each apex, 
descending. Fruit “thick, coriaceous, indehiscent.’’—A shrub ; leaves 

1 Bentu., Niger, 362.—B. H., Gen., 800, n. 14, 
