88 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



(wide) entire coriaceous penninerved reticulate-veined canescent- 

 tomentose ; stipules interpetiolate large, deciduous ; flowers axillary 

 in loose pedunculate cymes, bracteate or bracteolate.i {St. Helena.^) 



^ 27. Lasiodiscus Hook. F.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 cupuliform or broad obconical. Sepals 5, wide, 3-angular, valvate, 

 finally reflexed. Petals small concave, rather shorter, deciduous. 

 Stamens inserted with perianth around thick epigynous glabrous or 

 densely velutinous disk crowning the germen; filaments subcom- 

 planate longer than the petals; anthers small introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen inferior, filling the cavity of the receptacle ; cells 3, 1- 

 ovulate ; ovules of Rhamnus ; style erect rather thick, sometimes 

 articulated a little above the base, at apex 3-fid; branches recurved, 

 stigmatose within and at obtuse apex. Fruit finally dry obconico- 

 turbinate, entirely adnate to receptacle except at depressed convex 

 apex, 3-coccous (?) ; seed unequally obovoid depressed ; cotyledons of 

 albuminous embryo suborbiculate (virescent). — Shrubs, sometimes 

 subscandent, glabrous ; innovations strigillose ; leaves opposite large, 

 shortly petiolate entire or serrulate membranaceous ; stipules inter- 

 petiolar erect lanceolate, free or connate at base, deciduous ; flowers 

 (rather large) in terminal axillary compound subumbellate peduncu- 

 late cymes ; branches and twigs of inflorescence compressed or 

 ferrugineo-tomentose ; fructiferous curved. [Trop. Western Africa^ 

 Malacca.*) 



28 ? Trymalium Fenzl.^ — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle ob- 

 conical. Sepals 5,^ 8-angular, deciduous or patent. Petals 5, cucul- 

 late, enclosing smallanthers. Stamens 5 ; filaments incurved, inserted 

 with perianth around epigynous annular or 5-lobed or partite disk; 

 anthers ovoid. Germen inferior, internally adnate to receptacle, 

 free only at apex and attenuate to 2, 3-lobed style ; cells 1, 2, 1- 

 ovulate. Fruit capsular, quite adnate within to thin receptacle, 



' A genus scarcely to be retained, though, in 34. n. 1. 



some cases in the form of its apical fruit, in •'' Gen. 381, n. 20. 



other cases, in its ample leaves and loose cymes. i Spec. 2. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 385. H. 



distinct from most Phylicas, it would perhaps Bn. Adansonia, viii. 209. Epigynous disk in 



he hetter regarded as a section of the latter in Western species densely Telutino-lanate, in 



which the above characters are occasionally that of Madagascar rather glabrous, 



observed. 6 ^^„^ ^„^ 20.— Endl. Qm. n. 6744.— 



2 Spec. 1. N. elUptica Hook. p. — Phylica ellip- B. H. Gen. 382 n. 34. 



fea RoxE. Beats. App. 316.— DC. Frodr. ii. « Often coloured. 



