304 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



number, subentire or 2 -fid, serrate or lacerate. Stamens double in 

 number, inserted in 2 series under epigynous simple or 2-plicate, 

 8-16-lobed disk projecting between tbe filaments and free ; antbers 

 introrsely 2-rimose. Germen partly or quite inferior ; cells 3-6 ; 

 style at stigmatose apex variously 3-6-lobed. Ovules in cells 2, 

 descending ; micropyle extrorse. Fruit generally crowned with 

 calyx, globular coriaceous. Seed globular or reniform; albumen 

 fleshy; radicle of axile more or less incurved embryo superior. — 

 Glabrous trees or slirubs ; leaves opposite petiolate glabrous, entire 

 or serrulate; stipules interpetiolate, caducous; flowers small in 

 compound cymes ; pedicels articulate, minutely 2-bracteolate. {Asia, 

 trojp. Oceania, Malacca.) — See p. 291. 



6. Crossostylis Foest.' — Flowers nearly oi Barraldeia; receptacle 

 shortly obconical or obpyramidal. Sepals 4, 5, 3-angular, valvate. 

 Petals same in number lacerate or more rarely subentire {Haplopeta- 

 lum^). Stamens 8-10, or oftener 12-co ,^ alternating with as many 

 lobes of disk;* anthers introrse. Germen adnate to receptacle at 

 base, thence free ; style at stigmatose apex funnel-shaped and there 

 reflexed oo -lobed. Ovules in cells 4-oo (very incomplete) 2-nate, 

 inserted in pairs on central column^ descending; micropyle ex- 

 trorsely superior. Fruit scarcely or to a less or greater extent adnate 

 to receptacle aud crowned with calyx, scarcely or tardily septicidal. 

 Seeds oo , furnished with a fleshy aril ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of oftener straight embryo ^ narrowly ovate. — Small trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite; stipules, etc., of Barraldeia; flowers'' axillary 

 pedunculate, 2-nate or cymose oo . (Oceania.^) 



7. Gynotroches Bl.^ — Flowers nearly otSarraldeia, 4-5-merous. 

 Stamens 8-10, inserted at margin of disk ; anthers small sub-2- 

 dymous. Germen partly inferior; cells 4-6; style depressed- 



' Char. Gen. 87, t. 44. — J. Gen. 432. — IjAMk. prominent or inconspicuoils. 

 Bid. ii. 193.— DC. I'rodr. iii. 296.— Enel. Gen. « Sometimes green, 



n. 6336. — Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 77.- — H. 7 Large or minute, wHte. 



Bn. Adamonia, iii. 31, 40 ; Payer Fam. Nat. 361. 8 Spec, about 6. (xtiillem. Jn7i. Sc. Nat. ser. 



— B. H. Gen. 681, n. W.—Tomostyles Mont- 2, vii. 364.— A. Gkay, loc. cit. 610, t. 77.— 



Bous. Mim. Acad. Lyon. i. 201. Seem. Fl. Fit. 428.— Br. et Gn. £uU. Soc. Bot. 



■ A. Gray, Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Sot. i. 608, t. Fr. viii. 376 ; Aim. Se. Nat. ser. 5, xiii. 393. 

 76; Seem. Bonpl. (1862) 36.— Benth. Journ. ^ Bijdr.2l^; Mus. Zu^d.-Bat. i. 126, t. 31.— 



Linn. Soc. iii. 16.— H.Bs. Adansonia, iii. 29. Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 76. — H. Bn. 



3 Of which 4, 5, larger, oppositipetalous ; the Adamonia, iii. 30, 40 ; Payer Fam. Nat. 362.— 



rest from the middle of tte petal to the margin B. H. Gen. 681, n. 9. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 440.— 



smaller ; the smallest often oppositipetalous. Dryptopetalum Arx. Ann. Nat. Riit. i. 372. — 



< Often regarded as ataminodes. Endl. Gen. n. 6103. 



* Bearing rudiments of septa generally little 



