8APINDA0EM. ill 



3-6-agonal; cells 3-6; style erect, stigmatiferous 3-6-fid or 

 dentate at apex. Ovules in cells 3, collateral or subsuperposed ; 

 one generally ascendent; the other descendent. Fruit capsular, 

 membraneous or subcoriaceous, 2-6-agonalor 2-6--wiiiged, septicidally 

 2-6-valved; valves dorsally winged or carinate; columella per- 

 sistently septiferous, seminiferous. Seeds compressed exarillate; 

 funicle sometimes incrassate at apex ; testa coriaceous or hard ; 

 cotyledons of exalbumiuous embryo rather wide, more or less 

 spirally-convolute. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes viscous; leaves 

 alternate simple or more, rarely paripiunate; flowers in axillary and 

 terminal racemose-composite or corymbiform racemes (sometimes 

 few or 1 -flowered.) [All hot reg?) 



40. Distichostemon F. Mubll,^ — Flowers polygamo-dicecious 

 (nearly of Dodoncea) apetalous ; sepals 5-8, linear-oblong, imbricated, 

 finally not contiguous on both sides. Stamens oo, central, free ; 

 filaments very short erect; anthers elongated basiflxed hispid apiculate, 

 introrsely 2-rimose; the iaterior sometimes imperfect. Germen (in 

 male flower rudimentary or 0) surrounded by small disk ; cells 2-4, 

 2-ovulate (of Dodoncea) ; style slender, simple or 2-4-dentate stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. Capsule 2-4-locular, septicidal; cells dorsally 

 produced above in short coriaceous wings; valves 2-4, free from 

 walls of 2-4-pterous columella, 1- or 2-spermous. — Whitish tomentose 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate sessile oblong entire reticulate-veiued ; 

 flowers in terminal subsimple or slightly ramified racefues ; pedicels 

 short.^ [Trop. Australia.^) 



41 ? Alvaradoa Liebm.* — Flowers regular dioecious ; male calyx 

 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, alternating with sepals, filiform, capil- 

 laceous or 0. Stamens -5 (in female flower 0), oppositipetalous 

 inserted between the 5 lobes of rather thick central disk ; filaments 

 long subulate exserted ; anthers introrse j cells linear parallel, longi- 



' Spec, about 50. Et'DO. Trans. Linn. Sob. Ann. i. 136 ; ii. 223 ; iv. 381 ; vii. 634. 



xi. t. 19, 20.— Wight, III. t. 62.— H. B. K. ' Sooh. Kew Journ. ix. 306.— B. H. Gen. 410, 



Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 132, t. 442. — Andr. in n. 64. 



Sot. Eepos. t. 230.— Endl. Atakt. t. 31. — * A genus nearly allied to Dodonisa -with 



A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. 392. — ^Bl. Rmnphia, which it was long confounded, differing chiefly 



iii. 188. — Hook. f. Fl. Nov.-Zel. i. 38 ; Man. in hahit and androcemu. 



44.— Gbiseb. Fl. Brit. JV.-Ind. 127.— Hakt. et < Spec. 1. D. hispidtamn.—D . phyllopterus 



SoNn. Fl. Cap. i. 241.— Thw. Etium. Fl. Zeyl. 59. F. Mtjell. HooTc. Kew Journ. ix. 306.— Benth. 



— Benth. ei. Austral, i. 472. — Boiss. Fl. Or. i. Fl. Austral, i. 487. — Walp. Ann. vii. 637.— 



953.— Baker, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 433.— Tr. et Pl. Dodmaa hispiduta Endl. Atakt. t. 30. - 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 378. — Montrouz, ' Vidensk. Meddel. Kjoien. (1853), 100. — 



M^. Acad. Lyon.-x.. li9.—Bot. Mag. t. 2860.— B. H. Qm. 411, n. 67. 

 Bot. Meg. t. 442.— Walp. Rep. i. 421 ; v. 368 ; 



