326 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
tree ; leaves alternate, petiolate, penninerved; stipules foliaceous, 
caducous ; flowers in axillary ramified cymiferous racemes (Zey/ania’). 
35. Hydnocarpus Garty.? — Flowers polygamous-diæcious ; 
sepals 4, 5, free, much imbricated. Petals 5, imbricated or contorted ; 
scales same in number, placed within at base, opposite. Stamens in 
male flower 5, alternipetalous, or 6-8 ; filaments hypogynous, free ; 
anthers basifixed, subreniform or suboblong, 2-rimose at margin. 
Staminodes in female flower 5—0o, sterile or sometimes furnished 
with fertile anthers. Germen sessile ; styles 3-6, short or more or less 
elongated, unequally dilated, stigmatiferous at apex ; placentas same 
in number, parietal; ovules on each , anatropous. Berry large, 
subcorticate; seeds ©; testa hard, striate; albumen oily; embryo 
axile ; cotyledons foliaceous, flat or subplicate.—Trees ; leaves alter- 
nate, shortly petiolate; stipules lateral, caducous ; flowers in short 
axillary cymiferous racemes ; females few or solitary* (Zrop. Asia’). 
36. Rawsonia Harv. & Sonp.’—Flowers polygamous ; sepals 4, 5, 
much imbricated, gradually proceeding to same number of petals, 
much imbricated. Scales complanate subpetaloid or shortly pilose 
(Dasylepis'), placed inwardly at the base, before each petal. Stamens 
©, inserted on slightly dilated receptacle ;’ filaments linear or 
lanceolate-oblong, more or less sagittate at base. Germen superior ; 
placentas parietal, co-ovulate ; style erect, stigmatiferous at apex with 
more or less elongate lobes, sometimes finally radiate (Z#rawsomia). 
Fruit baccate ?—Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, serrate or 
dentate; stipules small, deciduous ; flowers axillary, racemose (Dasy- 
lepis), solitary or glomerate’ (Zrop. 
Western and Southern Africa’). 

1 Spee. 1. 7. zeylanica Tuw., loc. cit. ; 
Enum. PI. Zeyl., 19,—Watp., Ann., iv. 229. 
2 Fruct., i. 288, t. 60.—DC., Prodr., i. 257. 
—ENDL., Gen., n.5085 (part.).— Bu., Rumphia, 
iv. 21, t.178 B, fig. 1 (nec).—B. H., Gen., 129, 
n. 28. 
3 Whether of this genus (characters being a 
little changed) Taraktogenos Blumei Hassx. 
(Retzia 127 ; —B. H., Gen., 129, n. 27;—Miq., 
Fl, Ind,-Bat.,i. p. ü. 110; Fl. Sum., 159;— 
Watp., Ann., iv. 229; vii. 232 ;—Hydnocarpus 
heterophylla Bu,), Javanese tree, habit of Hyd- 
nocarpus, of which it is said, sepals 4, petals 8, 
stamens 8, or three times the number of petals ; 
ovules indefinite in number. 
4 Spec. 5, 6. Vaux, Symb. Bot., iii. 100.— 
Wicur, Z//., t. 16; Icon, t. 942.—Wianr & 
Arn., Prodr., i. 30.—M1qQ., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 
p- ii. 110; FU. Sum., 159.—Watp,, Rep. v. 
58 6; Ann., i. 63; i1. 62; iv. 230; vii. 232. 
5 Fl. Cap., 67.—B. H., Gen., 127, n. 12.— 
H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 257. 
6 Oztv., in Jowrn. Linn, Soc., ix. 170.— 
B, H., Gen., 972, n. 26 a. 
7 Whence often slightly perigynous. 
8 In Dasylepis long erect-connivent. 
9 Gen. nearly related to Pangiwn and On- 
coba. By more recent authors Rawsonia is 
placed among the Flacourtiee; while OLIVER 
rightly inserts Dasylepis after Trichadenia, on 
account of its oppositipetalous scales. 
10 Spec. 2. Hary., Thes, Cap., t.31.—WALP., 
Ann.,, vii, 226. 
