VIOLACEX. 
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5. Leonia KR. & Pav.'—Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, 5-merous ; 
sepals and petals same in number, longer, alternate, free or coherent 
at base, præfloration imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; fila- 
ments connate in short tube; anthers short, exappendiculate, in- 
serted at summit of tube, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen free, L-locular ; 
style short, apex stigmatiferous, entire or scarcely 3-dentate ; pla- 
centas parietal 3, «-ovulate. Berry globose, indehiscent; seeds 
#, subglobose, nidulant in pulp.—Trees ; leaves alternate, entire, 
pellucid-punctuate ; flowers small, in axillary or terminal cymes, 
long ramified-compound (Zrop. and Subtrop. South America’). 
6. Melicytus Forsr.*—F lowers subregular polygamous, 5-merous ; 
sepals and longer petals sessile imbricate. Stamens alternipetalous 5 ; 
filaments very short, subconnate; anthers introrse, 2-rimose; con- 
nective produced at apex in membrane, and dorsally more or less 
above the base, with appendiculate ascendent squamules. Germen 
(in male flower rudimentary) free, 1-locular; style (sometimes very 
short) stigmatiferous at apex, 3-5-fid, subdiscoidal or divided into 
3-6 lobes, more or less thick, sometimes sessile; placentas parietal 
3-5; ovules in each ». Berry subglobose ; seeds æ, subglobose, 
albuminous ; testa coriaceous or crustaceous.—Small trees or shrubs ; 
leaves alternate, dentate; stipules 0 or minute ; flowers rather small, 
axillary, cymose ; pedicels at apex 2-bracteolate (ew Zealand, Norfolk 
Island’). 
7? Hymenanthera kh. Br.’—Flowers (nearly of Melicytus) poly- 
gamous ; filaments of stamens short, connate in tube; connective 
(as in Welicytus) at apex and back appendiculate. Germen 1-locular ; 
style short, apex stigmatiferous, 2-lobed, or very short subdiscoidal ; 
placentas parietal 2, l-ovulate. Berry subglobose, 1- or 2-spermous ; 
seeds subglobose ; embryo albuminous; cotyledons narrow.—Small 

Rep., i. 224; v. 60; Ann, i. 71; ii. 67; iv. 
235; vii. 218 (Alsodeia). 
1 Fl. Per. et Chil., ii.69, t.22 (nec Lu. & LEx.). 
—DC., Prodrom., viii. 669.—ENDz., Gen., n. 
4231.—BenTH., in Hook. Journ., vy. 215.— 
B. H., Gen., 119, 970, n. 12. 
2 Spec. 3. Mart., Nov. Gen. et Sp., ii. 85, t. 
168, 169 (Steudelia).—M1Q., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 
Ebenac., 17, not. 
DC., Prodr., i. 257+—EnDL,, Gen., n. 5081.— 
B. H., Gen., 119, 970, n. 15. 
4 Spec. 4, Hoox., Lond. Journ., iii. t. 8 
(Elæodeadron) —Hoox. ¥., Fl. N.-Zel., i. 17, 
t. 8—Watp., Ann., vii, 220. 
5 Congo, 442; Misc. Works (ed. BENN.), i. 
125; ii, 705.—Gine., in Mém. Gen., ii. t. 2, 
fig. 9.—DC., Prodr., i. 314.—ENDL., Gren., n. 
5049 ; Iconogr., t.108; Prodr. Fl. Norfolk., 70. 


3 Char. Gen., 123, t. 62.—J., Gen., 428.— 
GÆRIN., Fruct., i, 206, t. 44, fig. 3. —DEsRoUss., 
in Lamk, Dict., iv. 59.—Lamk., IL, t. 812.— 
—B. H., Gen., 120, 970, n. 16,—Solenantha 
G. Don, Gen, Syst, ii. 39. 
