368 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
drupe with pulpy sarcocarp enveloping five fibrous stones, in each 
of which are one or two descendent seeds. ‘These contain under 
their coats a fleshy albumen, and an axile, slender, cylindrical 
embryo, with elongated superior radicle. Huthemis consists of 
shrubs from Malayasia; four species' have already been described ; 
their habit is analogous to that of Zuvemburgia, Sauvagesia, &e. 
The alternate petiolate leaves are simple, coriaceous, smooth, cut upon 
the edges in small teeth like a saw, as are those of Ochna, with 
numerous secondary and parallel nerves. The flowers’ are arranged 
in terminal leaf-opposed racemes, solitary or geminate in the axil 
of each bract of the inflorescence, and accompanied by one or several 
sterile bractlets. 
III. LUXEMBURGIA SERIES. 
Luvemburgia’ (figs. 386-390) has hermaphrodite irregular flowers 
with convex receptacle. The calyx is formed of five unequal sepals, 
Luxemburgia polyandra. 

Fie, 386. Fra. 387. Fic, 388. 
Bud (3). Flower (2). Long. sect. of flower. 
often ciliate upon the edges, caducous, and arranged in quincuncial 
preefloration,’ and the corolla of five alternate subequal petals im- 

1 Hook., Zcon., t. 711.—Hoox. p., in Trans. in Voy. Lind., 62.—Plectranthera Mant, Nov. 
Linn. Soc. xxiii. 1683.—Watr., Rep., i. 528; Gen. et Spec., i. 39, t. 36. 
v. 60, 400; Ann., 1. 179; vii. 544. 4 There are two exterior generally smaller ; 
2 White or pink. and the three interior, often more developed 
3 A. S. H., in Mém. Mus., ix. 351.—DC., than the others, are besides contorted in the 
Prodr., i. 350.—B. H., Gen., 319, n. 7.-- Pu,  bud, 
