80 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



flowers^ in axillary and terminal very compound ramose many- 

 flowered cymes.^ {Trop. and suhtrop. Oceania?^ 



12. Berchemia Neck.* — Flowers 4, S-merous, hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous ; receptacle concave hemispherical or turbinate, sometimes 

 oupular or suhplane, lined with a disk. Germen free (immersed in 

 concavity of disk), 2-locular, attenuated to 2 -fid style ; branches at 

 stigmatose apex obtuse. Drupe^ elongate-oblong obtuse, girt at base 

 with short eupule of receptacle ; putamen woody or crustaceous, 2- 

 locular. — Unarmed shrubs, erect or climbing ; leaves alternate pe- 

 tiolate, minutely stipulate, coriaceous penninerved ; nerves parallel 

 close; transverse veins slender; flowers® disposed in the divaricate 

 twigs of a wide terminal ramosely- compound spike or of a much 

 branched raceme; solitary or cymulose, sessile or pedicellate.''' 

 ( Warm regions of Africa and North America ^) 



13. Sageretia Ad. Be.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Berchemia) ; receptacle hemispherical or urceolate. Disk lining tube 

 of receptacle, afterwards free and erect ; margin sub-entire or 5- 

 lobed. Germen immersed in concavity of disk free ; cells 3 ; 

 1-ovulate. Fruit drupaceous; pyrense 3, coriaceous, indehiscent ; 

 seeds thinly albuminous and other characters of Scutia. — Unarmed or 

 spinescent shrubs ; leaves sub-opposite penninerved and reticulate 

 veined, entire or serrate ; stipules minute, deciduous ; flowers ^* on 

 the opposite divaricate branches of a terminal or axillary oftener 



' Ferruginous or sometimeB white, pendent. ^ Purple or black, 



2 A genus from its germen mostly inferior ^ Greenish or whitish, 



(within adnate to receptacle) and fruit cupulate ' A genus hence allied to Colubrina, thence 



to middle, very closely allied ioGoluhrina, from to Zizyphtis (n. 19). 



which it can scarcely be generically separated, * Spec. 8-10. Jica. Ic. Sar. t. 336 {Rhammis). 



while there are some species of Colubrina (e. g. Hook, and Abit. Beech. Voy. Sot. t. 37. 



C. ferruginosa) with seeds persistent on torus Tork. and Geay, Fl. N.-Amer. i. 260. Miq. 



after the fall of the cocci. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 1. p. i. 644 ; Suppl. i. 331. ^Thw. 



' Spec, about 5, of which 1 is tomentose, Fnum. Fl. Zeyl. 74. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 67. 



■very various in form: A. Gbat, Amer. Expl A. Ghat, Man. ed. 5, 114.— Chapm. Fl. S. XXnit. 



Fxp. Bot. i. 277, t. 22.— Benth. Fl. Amiral. i. St. 73.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 381.— Maiim. 



414. — Seem. Fl. fit. 42. — H. Bn. Adansonia, Shamn. Or.-Atiat. 5. — Walp. Ann. i. 966 ■ 



xi. 270. vii. 588. 



* Elem. n. 800.— DC. Prodr. ii. 22.— An. Bb. ' Ehmnn. 52, t. 2.— Spaoh, Suit. & Bufon, ii. 



Ehamn. 49, t. 2. — Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 446. 446.— Endl. Gen. n. 6720. — A. Gray Gen. HI. 



— Endl. Gen. S719.— B. H. Gen. 377, u. 8.— t. 166.— B. H. Gen. 379, n. 15.— Hook. Fl.Ind. 



Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 6Z7 .—CEnoplea Hedw. p. Gen. i. 641, 



i. 161 (ex DC). 10 Very small. 



