232 GUTTIFERÆ (J. VESQUE). 
Stamina plus minusve effæta (staminodia) numero varia, libera v. varie 
(in annulum, coronam, phalanges) coalita, Ovarium 2-multi-loculare, 
sligmate subsessili v. sessili, integro v. radiato, levi, v. salebroso 
v. glanduloso-tuberculato v. toruloso coronatum. Ovula in loculis 
solitaria erecta v. lateraliter angulo interno affixá, ana-hemiana-tropa. 
Bacca indehiscens corticosa, saepissime calyce stipata, stigmate co- 
ronata. Semina pulpa arilliformi involuta. 
Pili nulli v. simplices 1-cellulati. Crystalla in mesophyllo echinata 
v. rarius secus fasciculos simplicia v. subsimplicia. Glandulæ in me- 
sophyllo canaliformes v. rarius alteræ canaliformes, alteræ limitata, 
v. ellipsoïdeæ v. rarissime ad formam sphæricam redactæ. 
Arbores v. raro frutices, succo proprio sæpius luteo. Folia opposita 
v. raro ternatim verticillata. Flores terminales v: axillares, solitarii 
v. fasciculati v. paniculati, ramis ultimis inflorescentiæ botryticæ in 
cymas 3-floras desinentibus. 
Epharmosis. Pili sæpissime nulli, nunquam physiologice gravioris 
momenti. Stomata nec prominula nec immersa, supra sæpissime 
nulla, cellulis accessoriis sæpissime late patentibus. Hypoderma 
nullum v. raro 1-seriatum v. rarissime 2-3-seriatum. Mesophyllum 
bifaciale, raro ultra 15-seriatum, rarissime subcentricum v. centricum. 
Fasciculi nervorum lateralium v. venarum immersi, vagina fibrosa 
continua v. subconlinua inclusi, rarissime fibris mechanicis fere 
omnino destituti. Nervi medii fasciculi secundum annulum supra com- 
planatum v. concavum dispositi, sepe fasciculos paucos liberos in- 
cludentes, vagina fibrosa communi continua v. interrupta inclusi. Pe- 
tioli fasciculus arcuatus continuus v. subdisjunctus margine involutus, - 
fibris mechanicis sæpius destitutus. Cuticula crassa in speciebus 
xerophilis. ; 
Asia tropicalis, Madagascaria, Africa tropicalis occidentalis. 
CONSPECTUS SECTIONUM. 
Suscenus I. — XANTHOCHYMUS. 
Flores 5-meri. Staminum phalanges (in flore masc.) 5 circa discum 
corrugatum liberæ, rarissime 4. Rudimentum pistilli sepissime nul- 
lum, raro fungiforme. Ovarium 3-3-loculare. Stomata late aperta, pro- 
patulo ambitu rotundato v. due v. transverse De v. sæpius 
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