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sterile very short thick), in 5 oppositipetalous groups ; anthers sub- 

 sessile, 2-loeular, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary, 

 6-lohed) thick conical, 1-locular; placentae 3, parietal, little promi- 

 nent ; ovules oo , 2- seriate on each placenta, ascending ; style soon 

 dilated to undivided stigmatose peltate head. Fruit . . . ? — A gla- 

 brous tree ; opposite leaves, etc, of Glusia ; flowers terminal, rather 

 long pedicellate, disposed in a compound cymose umbelliform raceme. 

 (Trop. west. Africa.) — See p. 401. 



II. SYMPHONIES. 



9. Symphonia L. p. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; sepals ,6^ unequal ; 

 the exterior shorter, much imbricate. Petals 5, alternate, contorted ; 

 bud subglobose. Stamens 5-adelphous ; groups oppositipetalous, 

 3-5-androus ; anthers extrorsely adnate, mnticous at apex or superior 

 with apiculate connective ; cells linear, longitudinally rimose. Disk 

 exterior to androecium, cupular, subentire or shortly 5-crenate. 

 Germen enclosed in staminal tube, 5-locular ; style elongate, at apex 

 radiately 5-lobed ; lobes at top of minute apex foveolate-stigmatose. 

 Ovules in cells (complete or incomplete) oo , ascending ; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior. Fruit baccate ; cotyledons of thick undivided 

 exalbuminous embryo 0. — Trees or shrubs, with yellow juice ; leaves 

 opposite exstipulate, thinly coriaceous, 1 -nerved, closely parallel 

 penninerved ; flowers terminal, solitary or generally spuriously um- 

 bellate cymose pedicellate. {Trop. America, Malacca, trop. west. 

 Africa.) — See p. 402. 



10 ? Moronobea Atjbl. — Flowers nearly of Symphonia ; bud 

 ovoid. Disk lobes 5, alternating with as many staminal groups ; 

 filaments in each 5, 6, long linear and spirally twisted around gynoe- 

 cium, extrorsely antheriferous nearly from base ; cells adnate linear. 

 Germen, etc, of Symphonia; ovules in. cells few ascending. Fruit 

 subligneous acuminate ; seeds solitary or few exalbuminous. — Lofty 

 trees with copious greenish juice ; leaves thick opposite ; flowers 

 large solitary terminal. (Trop. America.)— See p. 403. 



11 ? Montrouziera Paijch.— Flowers nearly of Symphonia ; bud 

 subglobose. Staminal groups 5, alternating with as many glandules 



