BAPINBACEm. 407 



arched accumbent ascendent.— A tree ;^ leayes approximately alternate 

 or subopposite, crowded at summit of twigs, abruptly pinnate, 

 folioles opposite oblique subtrapezoid obtuse or refuse, entire; 

 flowers ^ in axillary ramified, cymiferous racemes.^ [South Africa.'^') 



31. Melicopsidium H. Bn. — Flowers regular polygamous; 

 sepals 5, unequal, much, imbricated. Petals 5, alternate, longer 

 orbiculate concave, glandular fimbriate at margin, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, .alternipetalous, interior to regular disk outwardly between 

 the petals prominent-5-angular ; filaments hypogynous very corru- 

 gate-plicate, finally long exserted ; anthers (effete in female flower) 

 ovoid, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 

 central, 3-4-locular ; style terminal straight or slightly curved, simple 

 stigmatiferous scarcely incrassate at apex ; ovules in cells 2, inserted 

 at middle of internal angle, oblique or subhorizontal. Fruit capsular, 

 3-4-coccous ; cocci solute from woody filiform-3-partite columella, in- 

 wardly dehiscent ; endooarp subpergamentaceous ; exooarp finally dry 

 thinsolubile. Seeds in cells 1, 2, globose-subhippoorepiformexarillate ; 

 testa crustaeeous (dark) ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo amply 

 foliaeeous much convolute; radicle long terete arched. — A small tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate, 3-foliolate ; folioles oblong-lanceolate obtuse 

 subcoriaceous ; flowers in terminal corymbiform ramified-cymiferous 

 racemes slightly shorter than upper leaves.^ [N.- Caledonia.^) 



32. HarpuUia Eoxb. ^ — Flowers regular dioecious or polygamous, 

 4- or more rarely [Harpulliastrum^) 5-merous ; sepals equal and petals 

 same in number alternate longer esquamate imbricated. Disk very 

 small or 0. Stamens 5-8, hypogynous (in female flower rudimentary) ; 

 filaments central erect elongated ; anthers introrse. Germen (rudi- 

 mentary in male flower) 2-3-locular ; style short or elongate, straight 



1 Bark bitter. dons. It presents apparently the regular form 



2 Small, ebracteate. of Coaaigtia or Loxodiscus. Leaves of Zcmthoxy- 



3 "A genus approaching the Simai-ubetB in Ion. 



many points." (B. H.) ' Spec. I. M. tnfoUat^lm 'K. Bn. Adamonia, 



* Spec. 1. P. utile Eckl. & Zeth. loc. cit.— xi. 243. 

 Hart. Thes. Cap. i. 11, t. 17.— Hakv. & Sond. ' :FI. Ind. i. 645.— B. H. Gen. 407, n. 64.— 



Fl. Cap. i. 243.— W ALP. Rep. i. 422 ; Ann. vii. Tina Bl. Bijdr. 235 (part.), not Rcem. et Son. 



637. — Otonyehiwm'Bi,. MumpMa, iii. 180. — Slancoa 



' A genus not unlike SarpuUia, differing Bl. he. cit. 181. — Banatophorus Zipp. Bijdr. 



chiefly in its 3-foliate leaves, petals, evolute Nat. Wet. v. 181 {ThanatopJwi'us ?). — Slrepto- 



disk, nature of capsule, exarillate seeds, very stigma Thw. Sook. Kew Journ. vi. 298, t. 9 A. 

 long radicle and convolute foUaoeous cotyle- ' H. Bn. Adanaonia, xi. 242. 



