244 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



merous ; male calyx imbricated, sometimes various cornered and 

 more or less angular from pressure more rarely very small subnil or 0. 

 Stamens usually 2, or more rarely 3-5, inserted round rudiment of 

 gynseceum minute (or 0) ; filaments free ; anthers introrse or 

 subintrorse; cells short adnata, usually subglobose, longitu- 

 dinally rimose. Female flowers 2-5-merous. Germen sessile, 2-3" 

 locular ; style short, afterwards divided into 3, or 3 lobes 

 variously 2-fid dilated revolute, inwardly decidedly lacinulate-papil- 

 lose, ovules in cells 2, collaterally descendent ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior and thickly obturated. Fruit usually thick finally partly 

 opening like a capsule ; cocci 2, 3, or by abortion, 1-2-spermous ; 

 seeds copiously albuminous ; radicle of straight embryo much thinner 

 than foliaceous cotyledons. — Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate entire or repando -dentate penuinerved ; petiole sometimes 

 2-glandular at apex ; flowers in densely imbricated-bracteate spikes J 

 bracts 1-3 or more rarely oo-flowered 2-bracteolate. {Trop. Asia 

 and Oceania}^ 



130? Cometia Dup.-Th.^ — Flowers (nearly of Aporosa) dicecious, 

 3-5-merous ; calyx imbricated, sometimes unequal in bud. from com- 

 pression. Stamens 3-5 ; fllaments inserted below erect rudiment of 

 gynseceum, dilated at apex ; anthers introrsely rimose, obtuse at 

 apex. Female calyx....? Germen excentric 1 -locular; style 

 from base dilated suborbicular excentric rather fleshy papillose- 

 stigmatiferous above. Ovules in cell 2, collaterally descendent; 

 micropyle extrorse superior thickly obturated. Fruit drupaceous ; 

 endocarp hard ; mesooarp fleshy thick. Seed usually 1, exarillate ; 

 cotyledons of copiously albuminous embryo foliaceous. — Small 

 glabrous trees ; leaves alternate petiolate entire penuinerved ; male 

 flowers in amenta glomerate at the axUs of the leaves ; bracts of 

 amentum crowded strictly imbricated, 1-3-flowered ; female flowers 

 few in terminal axillary racemes.' {Malacassia*) 



Endl. Gen. n. 1897.— Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 316.— M. Abg. in Linnaa, xxxii. 78.— H. Bn. 



4, ii. 265.— SoHNizL. Icon. faso. 6.— H. Bn. in in Adansonia, xi. 17. 



Bull. Soe. Bot.de Fr. iv. (1857), 99S.—Zepido- a Ex H. Bn. ij^Aori. 642.— M. Akg. t>rodr. 



staehys Lindl. Nat, Syst. loc. cit. — Endl. Gen. n. 444. 



1897.— TuL. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 253.— a a genus very nearly alKed to Aporosa (of 



K. Bts. in. Bull Soe. Bot.de Fr. XV. 99i.—Tetrac- wHoh it would be better made a section), 



tinostigma Hassk. SoH. Bog. ed. nov. 55 ; in differing especially by its l-looular germen 



Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 714. (always P) i.e., in the same way as Benaeyelia 



1 Spec, about 20.— Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 580 from Cyclostemm & Antidesma from Sieronyma, 



{Jlnuij.—ln-w. Mnum. Pl. Zeyl. 288.— Wight also by its drupaceous aad quite indehisoenl 



Icon. t. 361 {Scepa).—'M.iQ,. Fl.-Ind. Bat. i. p. fruit. 



ii. .S62 ; Suppl. 471 {Tetractinostigma).—'Sj.S:Ss.. « Spec. 2, imperfectly known. H. Bn. in 



Sort Bog. ed. hot. i. 59.— Bbnth. Fl. Songh. Adansonia, ii. 55. 



