306 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stipules interpetiolate ; flowers axillary compound- cymose ; pedicels 

 articulate, 2-bracteolate. [Madagascar.) — See p. 293. 



10. Cassipourea Aubl.^ — Flowers nearly of Macarisia, 4-5- 

 merous. Stamens^ 15-30, inserted at margin of disk ; disk, etc., of 

 Macarisia. German very shortly stipitate or subsessile ; cells 3, 4, 

 2 -ovulate.^ Fruit fleshy or suberose, tardily septicidal. Seed aril- 

 late;* embryo albuminous.^ — Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves 

 opposite, entire or orenulate, penninerved ; stipules interpetiolate, 

 caducous ; flowers^ axillary cymose or solitary. ( Trop. centr. America.'') 



11. Dactylopetalum Benth.^ — Flowers nearly of Cassipourea, 

 5-6-merous ; calyx dentate. Petals at base long narrow, lacerate at 

 apex. Stamens 10, 2-seriate; the oppositipetalous longer; or 15, 

 inserted under the crenatures of the disk'' lining the receptacle; 

 fllaments inflexed in bud or 2 -plicate; anthers introrse versatile. 

 Germen more or less completely 2-3-locular ;^'' ovules in cells 2 ; 

 obturator thick. Fruit . . . ? — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves oppo- 

 site entire coriaceous ; stipules small, caducous ; flowers " axillary 

 cymose or glomerulate, sometimes very crowded, articulate. Other 

 characters of Gassipourea. {Trop. west. Africa, Madagascar. ^'^) 



13? Blepharistemma "Wall. '^ — "Flowers polygamo-dioecious 

 (nearly of Gassipourea), 4-merous ; calyx valvate. Petals 4, lacerate, 

 and stamens 8 (of Gassipourea). Germen free, contracted at base, 

 3-locular ; ovules in cells 2 and other characters of Gassipourea. — A 

 shrub (?) ; leaves opposite petiolate sinuately crenate penninerved ; 

 stipules interpetiolate, caducous ; cymes axillary shortly pedunculate, 

 00 -florous." [East India.^'^) 



' Quian. i. 529, t. 211. — J. Gen. 432. — Lame. » Joum. Linn. Soc.^. 79. — H. Bm. Admsonia, 



Diet. i. 653.— DO. Prodr. iii. 33. — Ekdl. Gen- n. iii. 21, 35. — B. H. Gen. 682, n. 14. 

 6104.— Benth. Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 79.— H. Bn. » Lotes of disk oftener in pairs interior to 



Admsonia, iii. 25, 38 ; Payer Pom. Nat. 362.— smaller stamens ; or filaments sometimes at base 



B. H. Oen. 682, n. 15. — Tita Scop. Introd. n. continuous with margins of disk. 

 961.—Leffnotis Sw. Prodr. 84 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. 968, '" Style sometimes tubular, thicker at apex 



t. 17. 1' Whitish. 



' Exterior to cupular disk. 12 gpeo. about 3. TSxL.'Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 



3 Obturator rather thick above mioropyle. 123, n. 6 {Casaipowea) . — Glit, Fl. Trop. Afr.n. 



* Lobes laterally produced to aril. 411. — H. Bn. Adans. xi. 374. 



5 Sometimes coloured. is c'^j_ n_ 6320.— Benth. Joum. Linn. Soc. iii. 



6 SmaU or rather .large, white. 78.— B. H. Gen. 684, n, 13.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 1 Spec. 2, 3. Pom. Diet. Suppl. ii. 131.— 441. 



Hook. Icon. t. 280.— Geisbb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. " Spec. 1. B. cor^miosum, Walt,.— Dryptope- 



274. talum membranaceum, Mw. exs. Hohen. n. 713. 



