is NATURAL HT8I0RY OF PLANTS. 



flo-wers^ in axillary terminal and more or less ramose spikes, 

 articulate at concave base. {Eastern Africa, south-western Asia?') 



34. Salvadora Garcin.^ — Flowers (nearly of Asima) hermaphro- 

 dite or. polygamous; calyx 4-fid, alternately imbricate, persistent. 

 Petals * 4, longer and broad, contorted or imbricate, closely coadunate 

 with each other to middle and by means of the filaments into 

 a spurious gamopetalous corolla. Stamens 4 ; filaments alterni- 

 petalous adherent to corolla at base, above free ; anthers introrse. 

 Germen superior, 1-locular,^ apex truncate-sessile stigmatic ; ovule 

 in cell 1 (of Azima). Berry, seed, and other characters of Asima. — 

 Small trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite simple, sometimes very 

 coriaceous ; stipules very small, caducous ; flowers ® in simple or more 

 or less compound ramose spikes, bracteate. {Southern Asia, tropical 

 and subtropical ivestern and eastern continental and insular Africa.'') 



V. HIPPOCEATEE^. 



35. Hippocratea L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; sepals 5, , small 

 and petals same in number, longer, imbricate, or valvatc. Stamens 

 3 (or rarely 5 ; 2, 3 anantherous) ; filaments free or adnate to 

 germen at dilated base, apex attenuated, recurved or reflexed. 

 Anthers 2-locular or 4-locellate, didymous or oblong; cells finally 

 confluent and extrorsely dehiscent. Disk covering receptacle, 

 broadly explanate, conical or cupular. Germen either free or 

 confluent with disk, 3-locular ; style short subulate, apex stigmatic 

 subentire, 3-lobed or 3-fld ; ovules iu cells 2-oo , inserted in two 

 series in the internal angle of the colls. Carpels of fruit 3, generally 

 dry, connate at base, afterwards compressed or broadly aliform 

 coriaceous indehiscent or laterally 2-valvate. Seeds compressed 



^^'^- ' " Vestigia iuterdum loculi abortientis dis- 



2 Spec. 1,2, imperfectly known. oernere suspicatus sum." (A DO loc cit 28^ 



3 Act. Angl. 1749 (L. Gen. ed. 6, 163) .-J. Ge,i. 6 Very smaU, white or greenish * 

 84.— LAMK.i«.t.8.— PoiE.i)ic^.vi.483;Suppl. 7 Spec. 1, 2. L. Spec. i. 178- Syst 889 

 V. 28.— Spach, Suit, d, Buffon xiu. 335.— Endl. (iJeVt^ia).— Forsk. ^g -Arab 32 (Cisi^) ~ 

 Gen. n. 2177,-Pl. Ann. So. Nat. s6r. 3. x. 189.- Eetz. Obs. iv. 23, 24 (^mWmV-VAHL SvnA 

 LiHDL. r«^. jrMi7<2-652,fig.436.-PAyEB,i?«m. i. I2.-K0XB. Fl. Coromand. i 26 t 26 W 

 mt. 14.— Lem. et Done. Tr. G€n. 453.— H. Bn. Ind. (ed. Wall.), i. 404 —Wight 'ill ii '229' 

 Adamonia, ix. 287.-A. DO. P,Wn xm. 27. t. 181; loon. t. 1621.-Done. Jaoquem'. Voy. 



4 The annular mtemode disjoined from the £ot. iv. 140, t. 144.— Walp. Ann. iii. 282. 

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