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late integerrimous, coriaceous, penninerved ; flowers female, axillary 

 solitary verticillate pedunculate.® {New Caledonia?) 



32. Fontainea Heck.^ — Flowers dioecious or more rarely monoe- 

 cious (nearly of Codiaum or Jlphandia); calyx gamophyllous sacciform 

 very shortly 4-5-dentate at apex, valvate, sometimes unequally 

 broken. Petals * 3, 6, imbricate. Stamens oo , central (of Codiceum\ 

 exterior of base surrounded by continuous 4-6-agonal disk ; anthers 

 extrorsely rimose ; cells adnate to linear connective or more or less 

 high discrete at apex. Calyx of female flowers valvate, unequally 

 broken. Petals as in male flower. Disk hypogynous continuous 

 surrounding base of gynseceum ; germen 3-6-locular ; cells (when 

 equal in number) oppositipetalous ; style afterwards divided into 

 branches, same in number, rather thick, stigmatiferous within ; ovules 

 solitary ; micropyle obtected by short obturator. Fruit drupaceous, 

 suboliviform or obtuse angular ; putamen osseous ; cells 2-6 ; 1 (or 

 rarely 2, 3), usually fertile, others small effete. Seeds exarillate gla- 

 brous ; albumen copious oily ; cotyledons of central embryo foliaceons 

 elliptical many times wider than terete radicle. — A shrub or tree, small 

 leaves alternate or subopposite, petiolate, ex stipulate, glaberrimous ; 

 entire penninerved reticulate-veined ; flowers axillary and terminal 

 falsely racemose, more or less cymose bracteate, {New Caledonia.^) 



33. Givotia Geiff.^ — Flowers (nearly of Codiaum) dioecious ; sepals 

 5 and petals same in number alternate, imbricated. Stamens oo 

 (sometimes 15-20), inserted round convex glandiilar-thickened re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments erect ; anthers adnate, introrsely and extrorsely 

 rimose. Perianth and disk of female flowers as in the male. Ger- 

 men 2, 3-locular; cells 1-ovulate; style afterwards 2-3-fid; branches 

 2 -fid. Fruit fleshy indehiscent destitute of columella, by abortion 1- 

 spermous; seed exarillate copiously albuminous; cotyledons of 

 wide embryo foliaceous, digitinerved at base — A tree ; ^ densely 

 covered with stellate indumentum ; leaves alternate petiolate digiti- 



1 A genus whose place is uncertain, tlie ^ gpgg i_ j_ Fancheri Hbck. loc. cit.— 



male flowers being unknown, but probably Saloghia? Panehcri H. Bn. in Adansonia, ii. 



near Codiaum, differs by its apetalous eglandular i'ii.—Codicmm ? Pancheri M. Ako. Frodr. 1117. 



flowers and verticillate leaves. e pi jgi^^f Calculi. 14.— Ekdl. Gen. n. S802 



= Spec. 2. H. Bn. loc. cit. 88. (Suppl. v. 89).— H. Bn. Euphcrb. 389.— M. Akg. 



3 And upon Fontainea (thfes. Fac. Med. de Prodr. 1112.— Gomma Wail. Cat. n. 78S1. 



Montpell. 1870).- H. Bn. in Adamonia, xi. 80. 7 Aspect of Hehiuus Stmiavia, soaicely differ- 



* Thick subcoriaceous, silky on both sides, ing by non-capsular fruit, 

 white, very fragrant. 



