482 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
stipitate, short, inserted together and connate among themselves at 
base, 1-locular, afterwards free and tapering in an equal number of 
styles, cohering among themselves, slightly thickened, reflexed, 
stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules (fertile ?) in each cell solitary or rarely 
2-nate, descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit .. .P—A 
tree (?) ; leaves alternate (?), imparipinnate; folioles opposite, very 
short, petiolate, ovate-oblique, tomentose, epunctuate, insipid ; 
flowers in much ramified terminal cymiferous racemes; pedicels 
articulate (JZanilla’). 
54. Decatropis Hook. r.—Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle sub- 
cylindrical. Calyx inserted on receptacle, short, cupuliform, 5- 
dentate, rather thick, villous, immersed in wool. Petals 5, inserted 
with calyx, lanceolate, patent membranous, valvate, at apex acute in- 
flexed. Stamens 10, inserted with perianth, the 5 oppositipetalous 
shorter; filaments free, subulate; anthers subcordate, introrse, 
2-rimose. Carpels oppositipetalous 5, inserted at summit of recep- 
tacle, free; germens dorsally longitudinally suleate, laterally 2-cari- 
nate; styles short slender, thick obconical stigmatiferous at apex, 
coherent among themselves; ovules in each ovary 2, collaterally 
ascending; micropyle extrorse. Fruit ...?—A tree (?); branches 
terete; twigs, petioles, and leaves below densely velutinate-tomen- 
tose; leaves alternate, imparipinnate; petiole terete; folioles 4, 
5-jugate, opposite, thickly petiolulate, oblong or linear-lanceolate, 
entire, coriaceous, impressed-punctulate ; flowers in large much rami- 
fied axillary glomeruliferous racemes (Mexico). 
55. Polyaster Hook. r.'— Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 
depressed conical. Sepals 5, small, imbricated. Petals same in 
number, alternate, sub-3-agonal, valvate. Disk thick, glandular- 
punctuate, obscurely 10-lobed, prominent between stamens. Stamens 
10, 2-seriate, inserted below disk ; filaments subulate, pilose ; anthers 
introrse, sub-2-dymous, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, oppositipetalous ; ger- 
mens free ; styles short, coalescing in rather thick column, at apex 
stigmatiferous, 5-lobed, capitate; ovules in germens 2, collaterally 
descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit .. .?—An unarmed 
Spee. 1. C. Cumingiana H. BN., loc. cit. 4 Spee. 1. D. Coulteri Hook. F,, loc. cit, 
Gen., 298, n. 55. 5 Gen., 299, n. 56. 
Small, crowded, white. 
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