408 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or contorted, obtuse or scarcely dilated stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 OTules in cell 2, oblique, inserted at middle of internal angle. 

 Capsule 1 coriaceous inflated submembraneous or sometimes ligneous 

 {Harpulliastrum), 2-3-locular, loculicidal; seeds in cells 1, 2, arillate 

 at base or to middle ; aril adherent to testa (otherwise glabrous) ; 

 cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo hemispherical or obliquely 

 superposed fleshy ; radicle short incumbent, — Trees ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; folioles alternate glabrous ; flowers ^ in more or less 

 ramified compound-cymiferous racemes; pedicels often long, brac- 

 teolate at base. [Trop. Asia and Oceania?) 



33 ? Hypelate P. Br.* — Flowers polygamo-dioecious regular 

 (nearly of Thouinea and Ptceroxylon), 4-5-raerous ; petals esquamate 

 imbricated or contorted. Stamens 8-10, interior to disk ; anthers 

 introrse cordate-ovate or subsagittate. Germen and 2 ovules (of 

 Hippohromus). Fruit globose, diy, coriaceous or fleshy,^ indehiscent ; 

 cells 1-3, 1-spermous. Testa of descendent seed coriaceous or crus- 

 taceous ; radicle of exalbuminous embryo superior uncinate ; cotyle- 

 dons thick plano-convex. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, pinnate 

 or 3-foliolate, more rarely 1-foliolate ; flowers in short compound-rami- 

 fied sometimes corymbiform cymiferous racemes. {Antilles, Florida.^) 



34. Hippobromus Eckl. and Zeyh.'' — Flowers polygamo- 

 dioecious regular (nearly of Hypelate), 5-merous; sepals unequal, 

 imbricated, persistent. Petals 5, small esquamate thick or 

 [Doratoocylon^). Stamens 5-8, interior to complete annular disk 

 hypogynous; anthers introrse oblong, 2-rimose. Germen (in male 

 flower rudimentary or 0) 2-3-locular ; style short, 2, 3-lobed stigma- 

 tiferous at apex ; ovules in each cell 2, subeoUaterally descendent ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid coriaceous. 



1 Large, red or golden in Blancoa '■' sur- order on account of the situation of the micro- 

 rounded by a membranous wing." pyle and only doubtfully placed here. 



2 Greenish, rather large. * Sometimes rather bluish. 



3 Spec. 6, 7. Bl. Eumphia, iii. 174.— MiQ. 6 gpeo. 2. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 653, t. 14.— 

 Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 570; Suppl. i. 199.— Deless. le. Sel. iii. 23, t. 39.— DC. frodr. . 

 Benth. Fl. Austral i. 470.— Thw. Fnum. Fl. 615 {Meliooccte sect. Sphasroeoeea).—^ . Mem. 

 .Zsi/Z. 56.— Walp. X«». vii. 631. Mus. iu. t. 5-7 (Meiicocca). — Hook. Lond. 



* But. Jam. 2S0.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. iii. 83. Journ. iii. 226, t. 7.— Gbiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 



— CiMBESS. in Mgm. Mus. xviii. 31.— Spach. i. 127; Cat. PI. Cub. 46. 



5wV. a iJw/on, iii. 64.— Endl. Got. n. 5619.— ' Enmn. 151 (1834-37). —Etol. &e'i. 11. 



B. H. Gen. 408, n. 66.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. 5637.— B. H. Gn. 402, n. 36. 



mt. Sl6.—JExothea Macf. Fl. Jam. i. 232. A s Buf.-Th. MSS. (ex Boj. in Seri. Koole. et 



genus -with the following anomalous in the B. H. <?ot. 408, n. 66).— Bakeb, J"/. .afnanV. 60, 



