BIXACEZ. 323 
alternate ovate-oblong, large, glandular-crenate, petiolate; stipules 
faleate, rather large, deciduous ; flowers in axillary, slender, elongated, 
interrupted spikes (Zrop. Western Africa’). 
28. Asteropeia Dur.-T'u.°—Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
very short, cupulate. Sepals 5, obtuse, imbricate, persistent, and 
petals 5, alternate, deciduous, perigynously inserted on margin of 
receptacle. Stamens 10-15, inserted with perianth; filaments at 
base in l-adelphous ring, otherwise free ; anthers short, 2-locular, 
rimose. Germen free, sessile, incompletely 3-locular, apex obtuse or 
attenuated in style stigmatiferous subentire or 3-fid at apex; ovules 
in each cell 2, inserted below apex, descending. Capsule attended by 
base of calyx and androceum, loculicidal, sometimes inwardly fun- 
gous; seeds o, hippocrepiform; embryo... .?—Humble trees or 
scandent shrubs; leaves alternate, etiolate, exstipulate ; oblong or 
obovate, entire, coriaceous ; flowers’ in terminal and axillary rami- 
fied racemes ; bracts and bractlets caducous (Madagascar’). 
VI. HOMALIE. 
29. Homalium Jacg.—Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle con- 
cave, turbinate or obconical. Sepals 5-7, and petals same in number, 
alternate, linear oblong, inserted in throat of receptacle, imbricated, 
persistent. Stamens inserted with petals 2—o and opposite, either 
equal in number (Blackwellia) or before each in fascicles with peri- 
gynous alternate glandules (Racoubea); filaments free; anthers 2- 
locular, extrorse, sub-2-dymous, 2-rimose. Germen partly adnate to 
interior of receptacle, l-locular; style lobes 2-6, slender, apex 
simple or capitellate stigmatiferous; placentas parietal same in 
number, alternate ; ovules on each placenta ©, or few, sometimes 1 
(Nisa), descending; micropyle introrse, superior. Capsule semi- 
superior, coriaceous, apex 2—6-valved ; seeds usually few, angulate or 
oblong ; testa crustaceous ; embryo albuminous; cotyledons foliaceous. 
—Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate simple, usually glan- 

1 Spec. 1. D. crenata BENTH, loc, cit—  Gen.,n. 5092.—Tux., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 4, 
Masr., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 496.— viii. 79 (Asteropea).—B. H., Gen., 801, n. 17. 
Watp., Ann., ii. 278. 3 Small, whitish; or in other species pale 
2 Gen. Nov. Madag., 22,73; Hist. Vég. Iles yellow. 
Afr., 51, t. 15.—DC., Prodr., ii. 55.—ENDL, 4 Spec. 2. Tux, loc. cit., 80-82. 
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