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BHIZOPHORACE^. 307 



13? Weihea Spebng.' — Flowers nearly of Cassipourea, 4-6- 

 merous ; stamens 15-30. Germen at broad base internally adnate 

 to receptacle ; cells 3, 4, 2-ovulate.2 Fruit tardily septieidal.^ Seeds * 

 albuminous, embryo, etc., of GassvpOurea. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite, entire or serrulate ; flowers axillary, solitary or cymose 

 3-Qo .5 Other characters of Cassipourea.^ {Oeylon, trop. west. 

 Africa, Madagasear.'^) 



IV. ANISOPHYLLE^. 



14. Anisophyllea E. Be. — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle con- 

 cave tubular. Calyx epigynous; folioles 4, valvate, finally erect. 

 Petals 4, alternate, inserted with sepals, entire or emarginate, oftener 

 2-lobed or lacerate. Stamens 8, 2-seriate and alternating with glands 

 of epigynous disk ; filaments subulate compressed ; anthers often 2- 

 dymoias, 2-rimose within, sometimes in oppositipetalous stamens 

 glanduliform (or 0). Germen 4-locular; cells oppositipetalous, 1- 

 ovulate; styles 4, distinct, recurved at apex. Ovule descending; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit oblong, terete, often costate, 

 drupaceous or coriaceous, naked or (?) widely 3-4-alate, indehiscent ; 

 seed descending ; radicle of exalbuminous fleshy embryo macropod 

 clavate ; folioles of inferior gemmule oo , decussate. — Trees or shrubs 

 glabrous or sericeous ; leaves distichously alternate, all equal or 

 oftener the alternate ones minute stipuliform ; the others larger, at 

 base equal or unequal, 3-7-plinerved at base, coriaceous (often 

 lutescent), exstipitate ; flowers axillary spicate or subracemose, 

 articulate; bracteoles minute or 0. (Trop. Asia, Malaya, Malacca, 

 trop. west. Africa.) — See p. 295. 



' Si/St. ii. [1825] 559. — H. Bn. Admsonia, iii. ^ Flowers (where known) white. 



27, 38.— B. H. Gen. 681, n. 11.— Hook. JFl. Ind. * A genus very Ukely, together with Bacty- 



ii. 440. Eichiaia Drp.-Tn. Gm. Nov. Mad. 25. lostemon, hotter referred to a section of Cassi- 



— Amtrutheria Gaedn. Oak. Journ. Nat. Hist, pourea (?). 



■vi. 344, t. 4. — Benth. Jown. Litm. Soo. iii. 70, ' Spec, ahout 9. DO. Prodr. iii. 34 (Gassipou- 



78. rea). — Benth. Niger, 341 [Gassipourea). — Tul. 



^ Micropyle densely closed. Ann. So.' Nat. s&c. i, vi. 119, n. 1-5, 7 {Cassipu- 



rieshy ; valves thick 3, 4. rea). — Thw. JSnum. Fl. Zeyl. 121 (^Anstrutheria). 



* Arillate ; radicle of often coloured (green- — Ohv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 410.— Waip. Am. ii. 



ish)'emhryosuperior, suheapitate at apex. 173 {Amtrutheria) ; vii. 952 {Cassipourea). 



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