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Villaresia); sepals 5, unequal, closely imbricated, decurrent-glan- 

 dulose below. Petals 5, longer than calyx, free, imbricated, inflexed 

 at apex and coalescing into a corolla spuriously gamopetalous and 

 calyptrate cut. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments hypogynous 

 free subulate ; cells of introrse anthers 2, free obliquely de- 

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

 attenuated at apex into an arched style inwardly sulcate ; summit of 

 style unequally-capitellate stigmatiferous ; ovules 2, collateral ; back 

 of germen vertically produced between the ovules into a narrow 

 spurious septum. Fruit drupaceous oblong-ovoid, stipate with non- 

 accrescent persistent calyx ; placenta intruded within ; seed hence 

 inwardly deeply sulcate; albumen fleshy copious; embryo minute 

 apical. — A humble or scandent glabrous shrub'; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, penninerved veined coriaceous ; flowers in terminal elon- 

 gated simple or scantily ramified cymiferous racemes ; cymes pedun- 

 culate soorpoid.^ {N. Caledonia."^) 



58. Cassinopsis Sond,-''— Flowers hermaphrodite ; lobes of gamo- 

 phyllous calyx more or less deep, imbricated. Petals 6, at base sub- 

 cohering together and with the stamens, free, imbricated, finally 

 reflexed-patulous at apex. Stamens 5, alternipetalous; filaments 

 hypogynously inserted; anthers subovate, introrsely 2-rimose, 

 Germen 1-locular, 2-ovulate, attenuated into a short conical style sub- 

 obliquely capitellate-stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit drupaceous shortly 

 ovoid compressed apiculate ; putamen crustaceous ; embryo of albumi- 

 nous seed apical minute. — Glabrous shrubs ; * twigs slender, some- 

 times armed with thin axillary spines ; leaves opposite, entire or. 

 serrate, glabrous ; flowers in 2-parous axillary and pedunculate 

 cymes. [Madagascar, South Africa}) 



59. GrisoUea H. Bbt.® — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 5-partite, 

 valvate; folioles not quite contiguous. Petals 0. Stamens 5, opposite 

 sepals ; filaments short glabrous inserted under the conical rudiment 

 of the gynseceum subglandulous at the base hollow laciniate fimbriate 



1 A genus closely allied to Villaresia (of wMoh known, often enumerated among the Jlicineas, 

 perhaps it would be better considered a section) ° Spec. 2, of which one is Cape. Hoohst. 

 valde afline. Krauss Bertr. 42 [Sartogia). — Tuecz. Bull. 



2 Spec. 1. S. sarmentomm H. Bn. loo. eit. Mose. (1858), 456 {Cassine). — H. Bn. Adansonia, 



3 m. Cap. 1, 473. — B. H. Qen. 354, xi. 180, n. 83.— Walp. Ann, vii. 569. 



^ 30. ' « Adansonia, iv. 211, t. 3, 4 ; x, 266.— B. H. 



4 Habit of Celastracea. A genus imperfectly Gen. 997, n. 30 a. 



