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capitate. Ovules in cells 4, 2-seriate, descending.' Fruit baccate, 

 CO -spermous ; seeds, etc., of Barraldeia.—Tvees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite ; stipules interpetiolate, caducous ; flowers^ axillary cymose, 

 articulate, ebracteolate. (Indian Archipelago.') 



8. Pellacalyx Zorth.*— Plowers ebracteolate ; receptacle tubular 

 or subcampanulate, produced beyond adnate germen and lined witb 

 tubular disk. Sepals 4-6, inserted at top of tube, small, 3-angular, 

 valvate, recurved. Petals small, inserted between sepals, at apex 

 slightly lacerate,^ or sometimes [Plcesiantha^). Stamens twice as 

 many as petals, inserted in 2 series under apex of tube. Germen 

 inferior; cells 6-10, complete or incomplete; style erect, at apex 

 capitate-disciform. Ovules in cells oo . Fruit fleshy ; seeds qo , 

 albuminous.7 — Small trees ; leaves opposite petiolate, oblong entire 

 or serrulate ; stipules caducous ; flowers axillary solitary or glome- 

 rulate. {Indian Archipelago.^) 



III. MA-CARISIE^. 



9. Macarisia Dup.-Th. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle cu- 

 pular, lined with disk. Sepals 6, marginally inserted, 3-angular, 

 valvate, reflexed. Petals 6, inserted under 10-dentate disk ; lobes 

 unequal involute. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, alternating with teeth of 

 disk ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen inserted at bottom of 

 receptacle, shortly stipitate, free, 5-locular; cells oppositipetalous, 

 incomplete above; style capitellate at apex. Ovules in cells 2, 

 collaterally descending ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit cap- 

 sular, girt at base with scarcely increased receptacle, oblong-5-angular, 

 loculieidally 5-valvate or incompletely 10-valvate. Seeds in cells 2, 

 descending ; testa produced above to a wing ; albumen fleshy ; coty- 

 ledons of elongate embryo oblong ; radicle superior. — Small trees ; 

 leaves opposite petiolate, oblong-lanceolate entire or denticulate; 



' The upper yomiger. 75. — H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 31. — B. H. Qen. 680, 



2 Small, " greenish yellow, " articulate. u. 6. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 440. 



^ Spec. 2. Wail. Cat. n. 4338 {Microtropis). ' Sect. Eupellacalyx. 



— MiQ. Fl. Znd.-JSat. i. p. i. 692 ; Suppl. 1-6, " Hook. p. Gen. 681, n. 8. 



326 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. n. 67. — Walp. Ann. ' Embryo elongate, greenish, 



vii. 951. 8 Spec. 2. Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 126, 325; 



* Ned. Tijdschr. iii. 20, t. 2. — Gkiit. Notul. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 67. — Walp. Ann. vii. 



iv. 429, t. 486. — Benih. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 251. 



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