CICLASTRA0E2E. 45 



alternate petiolate, entire coriaceous yenose, sub-3-plinorved ; stipules 

 minute, caducous; flowers in axillary pedunculate •(spurious?) 

 umbels ; pedicels slender ; buds conical. (Guiana.) See p. 10. 



IV. AZIMEiE. 



32. Azima Lamk. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious regular; calyx 

 sacciform membranous, valvate, 4- or unequally-fid. Petals 4, often 

 narrow, not continuous at base. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; fila- 

 ments subulate longer than the corolla (sometimes in female flowers 

 connate with it in a short ring) ; anthers short, introrsely 2-rimose (in 

 female flower effete). Germen (in male flower rudimentary) free, 

 2-locular ; cells sometimes 2-locellate ; style short, apex stigmatose 

 capitate subentire or divided into 2 acute reflexed lobes. Cells 

 1 -ovulate {Euasima) or 2-ovulate {Actegeton) and protected by a 

 spurious septum between each ovule. Ovules subbasilar ascending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior (often finally lateral). Fruit baccate 

 globose, 1-4-spermous ; testa of erect seed cartilaginous ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous fleshy embryo suborbiculate plano-convex, auricu- 

 late at base ; radicle short inferior concealed in auricules. — Shrubs 

 more or less sarmentous ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous ; stipules 

 lateral articulate, spines (the costse of the leaves) in axUs of leaves 2 

 or 4-6 (of which 2 are smaller) ; flowers in axils of leaves solitary 

 glomerate, cymose or racemoso-cymose. {Tropical Asia, Indian 

 Archipelago, southern and tropical Eastern Africa, continental and 

 insular). See p. 11. 



33. Dobera J.^— Flowers (nearly of Asima) polygamous (or 

 hermaphrodite?); receptacle shortly cupuliform. Calyx gamo- 

 phyllous, valvate, unequally divided or 4-lobed. Petals 4, free. 

 Glandules 4, oppositipetalous, flat thick. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments 1-adelphous^ to middle; anthers elongate subsagittate 

 introrse. Germen (in female flower effete) 2-5-locular ; 1 cell fertile ; 

 ovule of Asima. Berry ellipsoid, seed^ and other characters of 

 Azima. — Trees ; leaves opposite entire articulate ; stipules very small ; 



1 Gen. 425.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. ii. 493.— Pl. Fl. Aiyss. Tent. i. 108.— Endl. ffw. Suppl. iv. 



Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, x. 191. — H. Bn. Admsonia, 73. 



X. 31.— A. DO. Frodr. xvii. ZO.—Tomex Fobsk. ^ Like Meliai. 



^g.-Ardb.S2{^noiJj.-D.oi'Sm:Tsi^.).~Schizoeahjx ^ indumentum purple sub-fleshy ; embryo 



HooHST. Flora (1844), Beibl. 1.— A. Eich. green (ex Ehbenb. Icon. Lithogr. ined.) 



