376 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
axillary, 2-nate, free or connate; flowers! in simple or much oftener 
ramified compound racemes, often springing from squamose buds 
within one year old leaves; pedicels articulate (47 Trop. and Sub- 
trop. regions of Old World’). 

IJ. EUTHEMIDEA. 
5. Euthemis Jack.—Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, often 
ciliate, imbricated, deciduous, or persistent. Petals same in number, 
longer, imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, or 10, of which 5 are 
alternipetalous, sterile ; anthers fertile, subsessile, rostrate, 2-celled, 
poricidal at apex. Germen inserted on receptacle, slightly produced 
beyond androceum, semi-5-celled, elongated, produced at apex in sub- 
ulate-acute style ; ovules in each cell (alternipetalous) 2, descending ; 
micropyle extrorse, superior. Berry pulpous, 5-pyrenous; pyrene 
fibrous, 1, 2-spermous; seeds descending; testa membranous; albu- 
men fleshy; embryo axile, terete; radicle superior, elongated. 
Glabrous shrubs; branches terete; leaves alternate, petiolate, cori- 
aceous, lucid, sharply serrate; nerves crowded, parallel; stipules 
ciliate, caducous; flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed bracteate 
racemes, often in axil of each bract, 2-nate, bracteolate (Malay Arch.). 
See p. 367. 
TITI. LUXEMBURGIÆ. 
6. Luxemburgia A. S. H— Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
conical, suboblique. Sepals 5, unequal, sometimes ciliate, imbri- 
cated, deciduous. Petals 5, alternate, equal, imbricate-convolute, 
very patent. Stamens 4-8 or ~, hypogynous; filaments very short, 
connate in posterior mass; anthers basifixed, linear, aggregate, 
2-celled, 2-porous at apex. Germen excentric, lanceolate, sometimes 
very shortly stipitate, 3-5-agonal, apex in subulate acute narrow 
style; placentas 3-5, parietal, more or less prominent; ovules æ, 

1 Pale yellow, often handsome; fructiferous Adansonia, ix. 74.—Oxtv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 
receptacle often rather purple. 316.— Hook., Zcon., t. 588. — Tuw., ÆEnum. 
2 Spee. 25. Roxs., Pl. Coromand., t. 89.— Pl, Zeyl., 70,— Bot, Mag. t. 4519.—Watpr., 
Wieurt, IL, t. 69.—A. Ricu., Fl. Sen. Tent., Rep. i. 527; ii, 826; v. 400; Ann, i. 179; ii. 
i, 187, t, 85.—Hary. & Sonp., F7. Cap.,i, 448.— 260; vii, 548. 
Kt., in Pet. Moss., Bot., 88, t. 16.—H. Bw., in 
