332 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



50. Anisomallon H. Bn.^ — Flowers (nearly of Jpodytes) herma- 

 phrodite ; calyx short, 5-dentate. Petals 5, 3-angular thick, valvate ; 

 ribs iawardly laminiform vertical rery prominent, free acute villnlose 

 above and dividing the petal s into 2 hollows, each nestling a cavity of the 

 anther. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments subulate coadunate and 

 altematuig with petals ; cells of iatrorse anthers distinct, pendulous 

 from connective, longitudinally rimose. Germen 1-locular, furnished 

 at base with uni-lateral disk ; ovules 2, collateral (of Mappia) ; style 

 subulate subexcentric. Fruit drupaceous; sarcocarp thin; finally 

 quite inverted subhorizontal, unequally 2-lobed subdidymoiis ; one 

 lobe remaining accrescent from drupe, the other from fleshy disk 

 adnata to apex of a true bacciform fruit ; albumen of subhorizontal 

 seed copious fleshy ; embryo minute apical. — A remarkable glabrous 

 tree ; leaves at extremities of twigs alternate petiolate oblong-elliptic 

 or obovate entire coriaceous thick delicately penninerved ; flowers^ 

 in ramose pedunculate cymes subaxUlary to uppermost leaves of 

 twigs, articulate at concave base. [Neiv Caledonia?) 



51. Pennantia FoEST.* — Flowers poly gamo-dicecious ; calyx very 

 small, dentate or annular, sometimes wanting. Petals 5, valvate. 

 Stamens 5 alternate ; filaments inserted under the small rudiment 

 of the gynseceum, 2 -plicate below apex, affixed to back of introrse 

 anthers. Disk minute or scarcely visible. Germen 1-locular ; style 

 short, stigmatose to entire or radiate- 3 -lobed apex ; ovule 1, de- 

 scending ; micropyle introrsely superior. A drupe ; putamen osseous 

 or coriaceous obliquely pervious at fanicle a little below the apex ; 

 seed albuminous ; cotyledons of the very short subapiculate embryo 

 ovate, a little wider at terete radicle. — Trees ; leaves alternate, 

 entire or coarsely dentate ; flowers in terminal ramose-corymbiform 

 cymes. ( Oceania^') 



52. Leptaulus Bbnth.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx deeply 

 5-lobed, imbricate. Corolla gamopetalous ; long (Euleptaulus) or 

 more shortly {Brachyaulus) tubular ; lobes valvate, inflexed at apex, 



' Adansonia, xi. 195. 'Spec. 3, of which one is Australian, A. EiCH. 



^ For the order rather large. Fl. N.-Zel. 368.— Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norfolk, 



3 Spec. 1. A. clusiiefolium H. Bn. loc. cit. 80; leonogr. t. 121. — A. Cunn. Ann. Nat. Hid. 



•^ Char. Gen. 133, t. 67.— J. Gen. 428.— iii. 248.— Ebiss. iw/«cBa, xvi. t. 12, 13.— Hook. 



Lamk. III. t. 854.— PoiE. Diet. V. 152.— Endi,. f. Fl. N.-Zel. i. 34, t. 12 ; Man. N.-Zeal.Fl. 41, 



Gen. n. 5754. — Miti-rs, Ann. Nat. Mist. ser. 2, 726.— Benth. tl. Amtral. i. 395.— Walp. 



ix. 490 ; Contrib. i. 73, t. 11, 12".— B. H. Gen. Ann. i. 568. 



351, n. 21.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 86, 379; " Gen. 351, n. 19.— H. "BJ'S.' Adansonia, iii. 



I. 2 60. 374 ; x. 2G4. 



