324, NATURAL: HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
dular-crenate or serrate; stipules small or 0; flowers axillary, 
in ramified cymiferous racemes (4// warm regions). See p. 276. 
30? Byrsanthus Guittem.—F lowers nearly of Homalum ; recep- 
tacle obconical. Sepals 4-6, and petals same in number, alternate, 
just alike, induplicate at margin, all inserted at summit of receptacle, 
persistent. Stamens 3 times as many as petals, of which 4-6 
oppositipetalous, are outwardly accompanied by a glandule, 
attended without by 2 stamens; filaments slender; anthers ex- 
trorse. Disk within stamens, of 4-6 glands, alternipetalous, 
perigynous, constant. Germen large, partly adnate to interior of 
receptacle, 1-locular; placentas 4-6, parietal, «-ovulate; style at 
apex 4-6-fid, lobes dilated at summit stigmatiferous. Capsule 
1-locular, apex 4-6-valved ; seed finally 1 ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
wide ; cotyledons foliaceous.—Shrubs ; leaves alternate exstipulate ; 
inflorescence of Homalium; pedicels articulated, very short (Zrop. 
Western Africa). See p. 287. 
VII. PANGIEÆ. 
31. Pangium Rumeu.—Flowers dicecious ; receptacle rather con- 
vex. Calyx subglobose, valvate, unequally torn. Petals 5-8, im- 
bricated ; scales same in number, lying upon them inwardly at base. 
Stamens «; filaments at base thickened, subfleshy, much atte- 
nuated at apex; anthers ovate, introrse, 2-locular, 2-rimose. 
Stamens in female flower few (4-8), subulate. Germen free, sessile, 
apex stigmatiferous, wide depressed, subglandular, 2—4-lobed, un- 
equally sulcate. Ovules ©, transverse or oblique, anatropous, 
inserted on 2 or more rarely 3 parietal placentas rather prominent. 
Fruit large, baccate, indehiscent ; seeds o, nidulant in pulp, large, 
unequally compressed; hilum lateral large, elongated; testa lig- 
neous, exterior prominent-nerved ; albumen copious, oily ; embryo 
axile, more or less oblique ; radicle conical ; cotyledons wide, folia- 
ceous, base subcordate, digitinerved.—A tree; leaves alternate ; 
petiole furnished at base with adnate stipules more or less persis- 
tent; limb cordate, digitinerved, entire or 3-lobed at base; flowers 
axillary ; males in ramified cymose racemes ; females solitary (/ava). 
See p. 288. 
