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Pennantia Forst, char. gen. n. 67. 

 Flores hermaphroditi vel polrgamo-dioici. Calyx mi- 

 uiinns , ciipnlatus , aequalis, qiiinquedentatus, dcciduns. Co- 

 rollae petala qiiinque, denlibus caljcis alternatitn hypogync, 

 in inasculis sab ovarii rndimcuto inserla, sessilia, lanccolato- 

 oblonjja, acuta, acstivationc hrcvissimc imbricata, sub anthcsi 

 patentissima. Slaniina quiuqiie, hypogyua, petalis alterna; 

 filaraenta libera, aestivatioae induplicata, in roasculis filifor- 

 mi-capiliaria, in hermaphroditis subulato -fiiiformia; anlhe- 

 rae dorso medio fixae, basi einargiiiato- biüdae, in masculis 

 oblongae, lociilis oppositis, longitudiualiter latere dehiscen- 

 tibus, in hermaphroditis ovoideae loculis suboppositis autice 

 dehiscentibus. Discos nullus. Ovarium liberum, cllipsoi- 

 deum^ uniloculare vel bilocularc. Ovula in loculis solitaria, 

 funiculo e fundo adsceudente, parieti adnato, ad hilum gib- 

 boso pendula, anatropa. Stigma sessile, discoideum, obso- 

 lete trilobum, vertice depressum, glanduloso- papillosura. 

 Fructas drupaceus, unilocularis monospermus. Semen in- 

 versuro. 



Arbores ramis patentibus lenticellis crebris obsessis. Fo-1 

 Ha alterna, siraplicia, penninervia , nervis reticnlate junctisj 

 petiolata, ovato - vel elliptico-oblonga, iutegra dentatavej 

 plana, nilidala, sobtns pallidiora, subcoriacea, decidua. S(l 

 pulae nullae. Inflorescentia terminalis, paniculato- corym- 

 bosa, ramis pedicelHsquc bracteolatis. Flores parvi, albidi 

 Tel lutesceutes. 



Distributio. Per hemisphacrae australis insulas ocea- 

 nicas extratropicas, a Nova Hollaudia orieutem versus sitas 



Afjinitas, Anacardiacea, in Mauriae et Rhois vicinif 

 eollocanda. 



