504 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANT'S. 
descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Drupes 1-4, seed and 
embryo (exalbuminous) of Quassia (or Picrena).— Bitter trees ; 
leaves alternate imparipinnate; folioles entire or largely serrate ; 
flowers! in axillary elongated cymiferous spikes ; pedicels bracteolate, 
articulate (Zropical and Subtropical Asia and Africa’). 
98? Kirkia Ox1iv.'— Flowers polygamous ; calyx wide at base, 
4-partite ; segments ovate. Petals 4, oblong-lanceolate, much longer 
than calyx, finally patent ; margin involute. Stamens 4, alterni- 
petalous, inserted round fleshy 4-agonal disk; filaments filiform, 
exappendiculate, glabrous ; anthers ovate-oblong muticous, 2-locular, 
longitudinally rimose, dorsifixed slightly above base. Germen 
(minute) deeply 4-lobed, 4-locular, glabrous; styles distinct, very 
short; stigmas simple. Ovule solitary or (very occasionally 2 ?) 
inserted at internal angle very minute. Fruit dry, oblong 4- 
quetrous, finally separating into 4 cocci, linear-oblong, glabrous, 
1-spermous, indehiscent, inciso-dentate above, entire or emarginate 
at base, pendulous from central carpophorum ; epicarp thin; en- 
docarp coriaceous and subosseous, finally fibrous. Seeds exal- 
buminous; testa papyraceous; cotyledons fleshy, linear-oblong, 
complanate, emarginate at base, much longer than thick subacute 
superior radicle—A glabrous tree; leaves usually fasciculate at 
summit of branches, alternate multifoliolate exstipulate ; folioles 
subopposite or alternate oblique lanceolate acuminate serrulate ; 
flowers in cymose crowded pedunculate corymbs axillary to upper 
leaves, constituting a wide leafy panicle ; pedicels equal to or shorter 
than flowers””* (Region of the Zambesi). 
99. Eurycoma Jacx.’—F lowers polygamous ; sepals 5, small, free 
or connate at base, usually bearing glandular hairs. Petals 5, much 
longer; margin induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous 
(effete in female flower) ; filaments free, externally bearing 10 glands 
alternating in pairs with stamens, stipate; anthers short, often 

* Char. all taken from Oxtv. 
5 Species unknown to us. K. acuminata 
1 Small, insignificant. virescent, often out- 
wardly pilose. 
2 Spec. 5, 6. Roxs., FU. Ind., i. 469.— 
GuerR., in Bull. Soc, Philom., iii. 182.— Done. 
in Nouv, Ann. Mus., ii. t. 20.—Or1v., Fl. Trop. 
Afr., i. 309.—M1Q., Fl, Ind.-Bat., Suppl., 209, 
535.—Watp., Ann., i. 167. 
3 Fl. Trop, Afr., i. 310. 
Ottv., loc. cit. — Hoox., Jcon., t. 1036 (ex 
OuIv.). 
6 Ex Roxs., Fl. Ind., ii. 307.—DC., Prodr., 
ii. 86.—ENpL., Gen., n. 5952,—B, H., Gen. 
312, n. 16. 
