RHAMNACE^. 77 



disk. Germen at base of receptacle, 2- or more rarely 3-locular; 

 style short columnar or truncate-conical, apex stigmatose shortly 

 lobed or 2-3 -fid ; ovules in' complete or incomplete cells 1, other 

 characters of Bhamnus. Fruit free capsular ; exocarp thin, finally 

 separable from endocarp ; cocci of endocarp cartilaginous-crustaceous 

 or membranous-woody, septicidally solute and opening inwards, 

 and also at base solute from short receptacle and exposing the shortly 

 stipitate and erect persistent seeds in it. Seed exarillate ; testa very 

 hard nitid ; ^ albumen fleshy or subcartilaginous ; cotyledons of axile 

 embryo flat rather thick. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alter- 

 nate penninerved ; stipules small or ; flowers in subumbellate 

 subsimple or compound cymes axUlary or inserted in the wood of 

 the branches. (Australia, New Caledonia?'') 



6. Sarcomphalus P. Be.^ — Flowers (nearly of Bhamnus) herma- 

 phrodite somewhat fleshy ; receptacle obconical or sub-hemispherical. 

 Petals long-unguiculate cucuUate. Stamens 5, equal in length to 

 opposite petals ; filaments much incurved in the bud ; anthers hence 

 before anthesis included between the germen and the disk, finally 

 exserted ; cells didymous, extrorsely rimose. Germen 2-3-locular, 

 ovules and other characters of Bhamnus ; branches of style 2, 3, 

 apex obtuse stigmatose. Drupe ovoid, girt at base below the 

 middle with cupule of receptacle ; putamen osseous, 2-3-locular ; 

 septa thick very hard. Seed suberect' obovate compressed, some- 

 times subcarinate withiii exarillate ; embryo... ? — Glabrous trees 

 or shrubs, unarmed * or spinous ; leaves alternate petiolate quite 

 entire glabrous coriaceous, penninerved or oftener 3-plinerved; 

 stipules small; flowers in axillary and terminal ramose peduncu- 

 late cymes. {Antilles.^) 



7. Hovenia Thtjnb.® — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle de- 

 pressed and broadly obconical, lined with a thin pilose disk. Sepals 



' Red. Gkiseb. Cat. Fl. Ciih. 31. {Zizyphus havamensia 



^ Spec. 3, 4. Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 414 {Bm- K. is [Gkisee. loo. «*.] a species of Sareomphali, 



menospermam). — H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 269. notwithstanding its inflorescence, which ia 



' Jam. 179. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 100. rather that of Z^^Ams) . 



— B. H. Gen. 376, n. 7. « Fl. Jap. 101.— J. Gen. 381.— Lamk. Diet. 



* And then with the habit and leaves of some iii. 138 ; III. t. 131. — DC. Prodr. i. 40.— Ad. 



Br. Bhamn. 60, t. 4. — Space, Suit. & JSuffon, ii. 

 ' Spec. 4, 5. L. Arrmn. v. 395 [Bhamnus).— 456.— Endl. Gen. n. 5721.- B. H. Gen. 378, 

 H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 67, not. {Bham- n. 12.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 640. 

 niu). — ^DC. Frodr. ii. 30, n. i. (fieanothua). — 



