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47. Medicosma Hook F.'—Flowers 4-merous ; sepals 4, decus- 
sately imbricated, deciduous. Petals 4, sessile, finally recurved- 
patent. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, inserted below thick pulvinate 4-lobed 
disk; oppositipetalous, shorter; filaments free, widely subulate, 
robust glandular-verrucose, connivent in cone, margins woolly, con- 
nivent ; anthers oblong-ovate, introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 4, oppo- 
sitipetalous, sessile; germens free; ovules in each 2, descending ; 
micropyle extrorse, superior; styles 4, shortly coalescing in one, 
slender, stigmatiferous 4-lobed at apex. Fruit cocci 4, tomentose ; 
endocarp separating, 2-valved—A_ glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite, 
petiolate, simple (or 1-foliolate?) glandular-punctuate; flowers? 
in few-flowered, axillary cymes; pedicels -bracteolate (Hastern 
Australia’). 
48. Platydesma H. Mann.‘—Flowers nearly of Medicosma ; 
sepals 4, decussately imbricated ; exterior 2 larger. Petals same in 
number, alternate, contorted, finally recurved at apex. Stamens 8, 
2-seriate, inserted below slightly 8-lobed disk; filaments subpeta- 
loid; anthers subsagittate, introrse, 2-rimose, inserted inside filaments, 
subadnate. Germen deeply 4-sulcate, 4-locular; cells oppositipeta- 
lous; connate only at internal angle; style central, short, stigma- 
tiferous at apex; ovules in each cell 4-6, inserted at internal angle, 
descending. “ Cocci erect, discrete, succulent, often 1-spermous by 
abortion ; endocarp thin, cartilaginous; seed . . . ?’”—Small trees, 
subglabrous (graveolens) ; leaves opposite, simple, obovate-lanceolate, 
petiolate ; cymes’ axillary, few-flowered ; pedicels 2-bracteolate (Sand- 
wich Islands). 
49. Dutaillyea H. By.’— Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 
shortly conical. Sepals 4, valvate, at first slightly decussate. Petals 
same in number, alternate longer, contorted or oftener (sometimes 
decussately) imbricated. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; filaments free, 
subulate, inserted at base of glandular-thickened and obscurely-lobed 

1 Gen., 296, 991, n. 48. Watp., Rep., ii. 825.—Ævodia Cunninghami 
* Rather large, handsome, white, pubescent. F. MuEzz., Fragm., iii, 2. 
3 Spec. 1, culta. JZ. Cunninghami Hook. F., 4 In Proceed. Bost. Soc. Hist, Nat., x. 317. 
loc, cit. — BENTH., Fl. Austral., i. 362.—  —B. H., Gen., 991, n. 50 a. 
Acronychia Cunninghami Hook., in Bot. Mag., 5 Flowers large, “ white.” 
t. 3994.—H. BN., in Adansonia, ii, 253,— 5 Spec. 1. P. campanulata H. MANN, loc. cit. 
7 In Adansonia, x. 327. 
