456 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



bottom of receptacle, 4-S-locular ; style elongate, at apex stigmatose 

 capitately 4-8-lobed. Ovules in cells (complete or incomplete) oo , 

 ascending, curved. Fruit capsular, seated in thick cupule of recep- 

 tacle, coriaceous or crustaceous, loculicidally 4-8-valved. Seeds 

 very close small, oo -seriate, scobiform, falcate, narrow winged above ; 

 cotyledons of straight exalbuminous embryo oblong (" green 

 spotted"); radicle terete. — Tall trees; ramules 4-gonal; leaves 

 opposite subsessile, cordate at base, nervose; flowers^ in terminal 

 ramose and cymiferous racemes.^ (Trop. Asia and Oceania.^) 



14. Lawsonia L.* — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle shortly turbi- 

 nate or subhemispherical. Sepals 4, 3 -angular, valvate ; accessory 

 teeth (or scarcely perceptible). Petals 4, alternate, exterior-to disk, 

 corrugately imbricate. Disk lining receptacle and unequally crenate 

 at margin ; 4 crenatures oftener larger, interior to base of petals and 

 there rather prominent. Stamens 8, in pairs opposite to sepals ; fila- 

 ments thick subulate corrugately plicate, finally exserted ; anthers 

 ellipsoid, 2-rimose. Germen subglobose free ; cells 4, oppositipeta- 

 lous; style slender flexuose, finally exserted, at apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on thick placenta, oo -seriate. 

 Fruit capsular pea-shaped, stipate at base with receptacle and calyx, 

 globose, finally unequally dividing. Seeds cx) , obcuneate, unequally 

 4-gonal ; coats externally thick spongy, internally hard ; cotyledons 

 of fleshy embryo suborbicular flat ; radicle subcylindrical often accum- 

 bent. — A glabrous shrub; branches unarmed or often spinescent; 

 leaves opposite ovato-lanceolate entire ; flowers^ collected in axillary 

 corymbiform cymes. (Trop. Asia, north-east. Africa.^) 



15. Pemphis Foest.' — Flowers 5-6-merous; receptacle (nearly 

 of Grislea) campanulate-turbinate, 12-costate. Sepals 3-angular; 

 accessory teeth same in number, narrow. Petals 5, 6. Stamens 10- 

 12, 2-seriate. Germen inserted at bottom of receptacle, shortly 



' White, large, " Btrong-smeliing." s Small, wHtish, atrong-smelling. 



2 A genus very near to Lagerstrcsmia, and not « Spec. 1. L. inermis L. Spec. 498. — Desp. Fl. 



unlike Sonneratia, whicli Besth. and Hook. Atl. i. 325. — L. spinosa L. — L. alba Lamk. Diet. 



place near JDuabanga. iii. 106.— HiEEiif. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 483. — Wight, 



' Spec. 2, 3. Hook. p. III. Himal. PI. t. 11.— III. i. t. 87.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 744.— Griseb. Fl. 



M.iQ..Fl.Ind.-Bat.i.-p.i.G24:.—WAX,v.Anii.u.diO. Brit. W.-Ind. 271.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 



' Gen. n.482. — J. Gen. iZl{Iausonia). -Lamk. 620. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 300. 



Mot. iii. 106 ; Suppl. iii. 39 ; III. t. 296.— DC. 7 Char. Gen. 67, t. 34.— J. Gen. 331.— DC. Prod. 



Prodr. iii. 90.— Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 435.— iii. 89.— Spach, Suit, ct Buffon, iv. 428.— Endl. 



Endl. Gen. u. 6159.— B. H. Gen. 782, n. 19.— H. Gen. n. 6148.— B. H. Gen. 780, t. 15.— Baker,' 



BN.J'a!/wJ'£(m.ifa<.354.— Hook. ii"/. /»((?. ii. 573. Fl. Maurit. 101. — Hook. Fl. Ltd. ii. 572.— 



Alcanna Gss-is. Fruct, ii. 133, t. 110. Maclellaudia Wight, Icon. t. 1996. 



