186 NATDBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



tiferous 2-fid at apex. Ovules solitary in cells ; mycropyle extrorse 

 superior obturated. Truit^ fleshy-capsular ; exocarp subdrupaceous 

 solute; cocci 2-5, l-spermous. Seeds ^ .exarillate ; ^ cotyledons of 

 thickly albuminous embryo foliaceous orbiculate-ovate, digitinerved 

 at base; — Trees; indumentum stellate or of simple or 2-fid hairs, 

 constant ; leaves alternate long petiolate, entire or thickly dentate 

 or lobed, digitinerved at base, 2-glandular above; petioles often 

 articulate at base ; stipules usually 0, sometimes small inconspicuous 

 or sooner or later caducous ; flowers * in terminal racemes or axiUary 

 to the upper leaves, many times ramified cymiferous ; the central 

 in cymules often female more thickly stipitate.^ {Trop. Eastern 

 Asia, Continental and ins. Trop. Oceania.^) 



16. Sagotia H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious, 5-merous ; sepals same 

 in number in both sexes and petals longer imbricated. Glands (in 

 female flower 0) same in number alternating with petals. Stamens oo, 

 free, inserted on convex receptacle ; filaments short erect ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 3-locular, cells 1-ovulate ; style 

 branches 3, 2-fid stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule furnished with 

 long persistent perianth, 3-coccous; seeds axarillate. — A tree; leaves 

 petiolate alternate, 2-stipulate, simple penninerved veined ; flowers 

 racemose. {Guiana, North Brazil.^) 



17. Chsetocarpus Thw.^— Flowers dioecious apetalous ; sepals 4, 

 decussate imbricated. Glands of disk 4, opposite petals. Stamens 

 8-16 ; filaments connate at base with rudimentary germen, pilose ; 

 anthers iatrorse, 2-rimose. Germen 3-locular ; branches of 3-partite 

 style stigmatiferous, 2-partite at apex ; ovules solitary in cells obtu- 

 rated. Fruit capsular ; seed smooth arillate at micropyle. — Trees ; 

 wood hard ; leaves alternate stipulate petiolate entire penninerved ; 



1 Large ; pericarp tUok. 6 gpe,,. 3. l. Spec. 1000 Jatri^ha.-hom. Fl. 



' Large globose, outwardly fleshy. Coohinch. 673 (7«^fe«s).— Kjempf. Amwn. Mxot. 



Extenor coat, subequaHy incrassate fleshy ; 789 Mir«s«).-BLAifco, i^/.dei?',7»>. 763: cd. 2, 



mtenorveryhaxd. 719.-H. Bn. in jLd»n.^ia, i. 146, 346 j yi. 



' White or pink ; the female larger. 297. 



<■ Sect, (ex M. Akg.) 3 : 1. Camiritm. An- /jn Adansonia, i. S3 (nee Walp.).-M. Aeg. 



thers always erect; germen 2-locular; indu- Prodr. 1113 



mentum steUai:.-2 Drymdm. Anthers erect, » Spec. 1.' S. racemom H. Bn. op. cit. i. 54; 



then osciUatmg-extrorse reflexed and subpeu- vi. 16. ^ ■ * > 



dulousi hairs at base 2-paHite or subsimple.- '^ J^ Hook. Journ. (1854), 300 t 10- Enum 



3. MeuHales. Anthers few, 2.verticillate; ger- FU Zeyl. 274.-H. L. Mupk^tL i^fZu. 



men 3, 4-locular ; indumentum stellar. Arg. P»o*-. 1121. 



