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membranous or subcoriaceous ; flowers in axillary subcorymbose 

 cymiferous pedunculate racemes. {Trap. West. Africa?) 



55. Platea Bl.^ — Flowers polygamous-dioecious (nearly of 

 Lasianthera\ 5-merous ; sepals small free, imbricated. Petals valvate, 

 caducous. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; antbers ovoid, 2-dymous. 

 Germen and ovules of Mappia (or Lasianthera) ; style wide discoid 

 dilated, sometimes oblique, stigmatiferous above and depressed at 

 centre. Drupe oblong ; putamen ligneous ; embryo albuminous 

 straight (?) — Trees; leaves alternate entire coriaceous, sometimes 

 witb. tbe younger branches leprose-rufescent ; flowers in axillary 

 more or less ramifled interrupted cymiferous racemes ; female racemes 

 much shorter. (Ind. Arch.^) 



50, Villaresia R. and Pav.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Gonocaryum) ; sepals 5, imbricated. Petals same 

 in number alternate, inwardly costate, imbricated or inflexo-valvate 

 at apex. Stamens 5 ; filaments subulate at apex, at base complanate, 

 alternate with petals and coherent ; anthers cordate-reniform in- 

 trorse. Germen of Gonocaryum [ox Mappia), 2-oYa\^&te; style short 

 thick, stigmatose oblique recurved fimbriate at apex. Drupe oblong 

 or ellipsoidal; putamen partly divided within by a longitudinal 

 semiseptum ; seed descendent, having a vertical process between the 

 ventral groove ; albumen fleshy corrugate ; embryo minute subapical. 

 — Trees or shrubs^high scandent ; leaves alternate (persistent) entire 

 or spinulose-dentate coriaceous (lucid); flowers^ in capituliform 

 cymes, the racemes simple or ramified, axillary, lateral or terminal. 

 {South trop. America and Oceania.^) 



57. Sarcanthidion H. BN.^'^Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 



' Spec. 1. A. Mannii Oliv. loc. cit. i. 248. — Charisssa Mio. Fl.Ind.-Bat. i. p. i, 794. 



2 Bijdr. 646 ; Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 249. — Endl. " Eatier small, white. 



Gen. n. 5496. — Mieks, in Ann. Nat. Sist. aer. ^ Spec, ad 10. Molin. Chil. ed. 2, 293 



2, X. Ill ; Gontrib. i. 95 (part.). — B. H. Gen. {Citrus) .—'Reus. Mart. Fl. Bras. Gelastr. 75, t. 



363, n. 28. 22.— C. Gay. Fl. Chil. ii. 12.— A. Geay, Amer. 



■ 3 Spec. 3, 4. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 793. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. t. 27 {PUuropetalmn).—&m. 



— Walp. Ann. vii. 568. Gartenflorn, v. 61 ; vi. t. 180. Benth. Fl. 



* Fl. Per et Chil. iii. 9, t. 231. — A . Juss. Ann. Austral, i. 396. — Miehs in Seem. Joum. of Bot. 



Sc. Nat. aer. 1, xxv. 14, t. 3.— Endl. Gen.n. (1864), 266, t. 21.— Walp. Bep. i. 541; Ann. 



5709.— MiEKS, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, ix. 110.— ii. 181 {Pleuropetalum) ; iv. 363 {Fleuropetalum) ; 



B. H. Gen. 363, n. 29. — H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. vii. 568. 



88, 93. — Citronella Don. Edinh.New PMl. Joum. 7 Adansonia, xi. 199. 

 xiii. 243. — Pleuropetalum Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 



