122 MYRSINER. [ Bassia. 
urceolate-bell-shaped, the lobes varying in number from 6 to 14, 
Stamens all fertile, about 2 or 3 times as many as corolla-lobes, in a 
single or in 2 or 3 rows ; filaments usually very short, or those ina 
single row or of the upper row of the 3-seriate ones elongate; 
anthers hastate-lanceolate, blunt or terminating ito a short bristle, 
opening laterally in longitudinal slits. Staminodes or scales none. 
vary 4-8-celled, the cells with a solitary ovule suspended from the 
summit of the inner angle. Berry 5- or fewer-seeded ; albumen 
none. Embryo erect, the cotyledons elliptically oblong, oily-fleshy, 
thick, plano-eonvex, the radicle short.—Trees, abounding in milky 
juice, with alternate entire leaves, Flowers usually middling-sized, 
pedicelled, in axillary clusters. 
1. B. villosa, Wall—An evergreen tree, the thick branchlets 
tawny-tomentose ; leaves obovate-oblong to broadly obovate and 
oblong, on a puberulous glabrescent petiole 1-} in. long, unequal 
and obtuse at the base, 6-8 in. long, blunt or somewhat notched, 
entire, chartaceous, glabrous above, shortly pubescent beneath, the 
nerves parallel and strong, the transverse veination conspicuous ; 
flowers resembling those of B. butyracea, middling-sized, on 1-14 
in. long densely tawny or yellowish velvety-tomentose pedicels, 
forming axillary clusters ; calyx tawny or yellowish tomentose, 4- 
parted, the sepals ovate, acuminate, about 4 lin. long ; corolla 
tubular-bell-shaped, 8-13-cleft, the lobes as long as the tube, ellip- 
tically oblong, minutely toothed at the apex ; anthers sparingly 
pilose, almost sessile or on very short thick filaments, in 2 rows, 
almost not exserted, aristate ; ovary tawny-villo 
Has.—Ava, Taong-dong.—Fl, Nov. 
MIMUSOPS, L. 
Calyx 6- or 8-parted, the lobes in 2 series, the outer one valvate 
staminodes ; filaments short ; anthers sagittate-lanceolate, directed 
et the e or almost erect; style shorter than the corolla. 
erries 1-2- or rarely 5-6-seeded, the seeds more or less compressed, 
with the hilum either very small 
and lateral. i 
Albumen copious. Cotyledons broad and flat.—Trees, 
