GELASTBAGE^. 89 



longer much imbricated, often finally recurved at apex. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments inserted between the lobes of 5-gonal disk 

 and exterior to them subulate ; anthers short introrse. Germen 

 immersed in base of disk, 3-gonal-pyramidal, 3-locular; style 

 short, apex stigmatic variously 3-lobed or 3-gonal. Ovules in cells 

 2, ascending; micrppyle extrorsely inferior. Truit capsular sub- 

 membranous or subfleshy, 3-6-alate, loculicidally 3-valved ; valves 

 inwardly septiferous in the middle ; wings simple or 2-fid to apex 

 Seeds ascending, either included in a membranous aril (Asterocarpus), 

 or exarillate compressed and marginately alate {Feripterygia^') ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of (green) embryo linear or elliptic ; 

 radicle rather long inferior. — Glabrous trees or shrubs; branches 

 angular ; leaves alternate coriaceous obovate ; stipules very small 

 glanduliform or ; flowers in axillary or terminal ramose-compound 

 often corymbiform cymes. [South Africa New Caledonia?) 



20. Eurrimia Wall.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle sub- 

 plane or cupular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, longer, imbricate, 

 open-recurved. Stamens 5, inserted with alternate petals under the 

 margin of disk lining the receptacle ; filaments subulate ; anthers 

 introrse or laterally or extrorsely dehiscent. Germen immersed 

 within disk ; cells 2, incomplete, or complete ; styles 2, filiform, 

 springing from woolly apex of germen, more or less twisted or corru- 

 gate in the bud, oapitellate at stigmatic apex ; ovules in cells 2. 

 collaterally ascending subbasilar. Fruit capsular coriaceous, indehig- 

 cent or 2-valved; seeds elongate, enclosed in fieshy aril; testa 

 smooth glossy ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo linear- 

 elongate. — Glabrous trees ; leaves alternate petiolate entire 

 coriaceous penninerved ; veins transverse ; stipules deciduous ; 

 flowers * in axillary and terminal racemes, simple or ramose. {South 

 Tropical Asia, Malaya.^) 



21. Perrottetia H. B. K.^— Flowers hermaphrodite orpolygamo- 

 dicecious (nearly of Euonymus or Celastrus), 5-merous ; petals valvate 



> H. Bn. AeUmsonia, xi. 266. ■* WTiite, "yeUowish. Capsules brown. Aril 



^ Spec. 7, 8. Habv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. white or reddish.." 



461. 5 Spec, ahout 3. Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 72.— 



' Cat. n. 4334.— Abn. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Walp. Mep. i. 538 {Bhesa). 



XYiii. 328.— B.H. Gm. 366, n. 20.— H. Bn. ^ Nov. Gen. et Spec, vii.;, 73, t. 622.— Endl. 



Foyer Fam. Nat. 326.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 621.— Gen. n. 6697.— B. H. Gen. 367, u. 29.— f Thca- 



Bhesa Ham. Edinh. New Phil Journ. xvi. 315 phj/llv/m Nutt. {exTvB.oz.).—Cari/ospermum Bl. 



(part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 5692.— Pyrospermtm Mas. Lugd.-Bat. i. 176,- B. H. Gen. 367, n. 27, 

 MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 402, 



