0ELA8TBA0EJE. 83 



5-merous; calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Stamens 5, alternate witli 

 sepals ; filaments short free ; anthers subcordate. German free sub- 

 cordate; .style short, apex stigmatic obtuse; cells 2, oo-ovulate. 

 Capsule obcordate, loculicidally 2-valvate ; valves septiferous in the 

 middle; the intermediate septa forming the dissepiment. Seeds oo , 

 winged, attached on both sides perpendicular to dissepiment, super- 

 posed in duplex order from the base to the apex. — A glabrous tree ; 

 branches ^ verticil] ate ; leaves opposite and verticillate petiolate wide 

 obovate entire coriaceous ; flowers ^ in terminal many - flowered 

 corymbs. ^ " (Peru.*) 



7. Elseodendron Jacu. f ^ — Flowers of Euonymus ; germen 

 2-5-locular. Ovules in cells 3, ascending. Fruit drupaceous ; flesh 

 sometimes scanty ; cells of hard putamen 1-3, 1- or more rarely 2- 

 spermous. Seeds exarillate; testa thinly membranous or slightly 

 fleshy ; cotyledons of thickly or scantily albuminous embryo flat. — 

 Small trees or shrubs ; leaves (oftener persistent) opposite or more 

 rarely alternate, entire or crenate ; stipules minute, caducous ; 

 cymose inflorescence ^ and other characters of Euonymus. {Asia, 

 Malaya, Oceania, and tropical South America.'') 



8. Maurocenia Mill.^ — Flowers nearly of Mceodendron (or 

 Euonymus) 5-6-merous ; stamens exserted. Anthers widely oblong 

 laterally extrorse. Germen oftener 3-locular, free from short disk ; 

 ovules in cells 2, collaterally descending; micropyle introrsely 

 superior. Fruit baccate ; ^ mesocarp flnally spongy. Seeds 1- or 



' Purplish. — WioHT and Aen. Frodr. i. 157. — Wight, III. 



' Yellowish. t. 71.— Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 145.— Hakv. 



', A very uncertain genus. Query if of this and Soxd. Fl. Cap. i. 465 {Cassine), 467, 469 



Order ? (Perhaps of Saxifragaceee ?) (^Mystroxylon). — Tul. Ann. Se. Xat, ser. 4, viii. 



* Spec. 1. A. verticillata S. etPAV. loc, cit. 106 [Mystromjlou), 107.— Bentu. Fl. Austral, i. 



= In Aet. Helvet. i. 36.— J. Gen. 452 {Elteoden- 402.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 365.— Reiss. Mart, 



dnm). — GjERTN. Fnict. i. 274, t. 57. — Lamk. Fl. Bras. Celastr.S2,t.o. — K. Bs. Adansonia, 7ii. 



Bid. iv. 637 ; III. t. 132.— DC. Prodr. ii. 10 267.— Walp. Sep. i. 536, 639 {Cassine) ; v. 402 



(part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 6688.— B. H. Gen. 367, 403 {Cassine) ; Ann. i. 191 ; ii. 264; vii. 577 



n. 28.— iH. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 325.— Hook. Fl. {Cassine), 681. 



Ind. i. 623.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. i^.—Schrebera « Bict. x L. Gen. (ed. 1737), n. 2i4,.— Cassine 



Eetz. Obs. vi. 25, fig. S.—Subentia Commebs. Mill. ex. L. Gen. (ed. ead), n. 845 (nee. alior.). 



ex.1. Gen. SlS.—Portensehlagia Tbattin. Arch. —J. Gen. 378.— Gjertn. Fruct. ii. 72, t. 92.— 



■250.~NeeriJa EoxB. Fl.Ind. i. Qi&.—Myatroxy- Lamk. Bict. i. 651 ; Suppl. ii. 130 ; III. t. 130. 



Ion EcKL. et Zbyh. Enum. llo.—Crocoxyhn —DO. Prodr. ii. 11.— B. H. Gen. 363, n. 12.— 



EcKi. et Zeyh. loc. cit. 128.— Znmardcia Hortul. H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 326. 



(ex Endl.). ' Ovoid or globular ; epicarp reddish, finally 



• ' Flowers white or greenish. dark violet ; mesocarp white. Said to be gene- 



' Spec, about 35 Vent. JarA. Malm.'i. 117. rally drupaceous. 



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