422 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



indeHscent (?). Seeds " compressed-globose exarillate." — Glabrous 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate fastigiate at the top of the branches impari- 

 pinnate ; petiole -winged ; flowers ^ in more or less corymbose 

 racemes ^. {South Africa, Madacascar.'^) 



63. Cossignia Commers.' — Flowers polygamous irregular; sepals 

 5, subequal, imbricate. Petals 4, esquamate, imbricate, sometimes 

 shorter than the calyx. Disk very irregular, excentric posticous. 

 Stamens 5-8, anterior to disk hypogynous. Germen sessile, anterior 

 to disk, 3-locular ; style simple ; apex stigmatose obtuse or sub- 

 capitate ; ovules in cells 2, 3, finally oblique or sub-transverse. 

 Capsule globose, 3-lobed, sometimes inflated submembranous {Sar- 

 pulUopsis ®), loculicidal ; valves oftener fijially solute from axis. 

 Seeds in cells 1-3, exarillate ; testa crustaceous ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo more or less convolute. — Shrubs sometimes 

 cinereo-tomentose ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite 

 entire; flowers in terminal often racemose-corymbiform cymiferous 

 racemes.''' {Mascarene Islands, Malacassia.^') 



64 ? Loxodiscus Hook, v? — Flowers polygamous irregular ; 

 sepals 5, unequal, very imbricate, at margin glandulose-fimbriate. 

 Peta,ls 5, unequal; the fifth often less than the others, or 4, shortly 

 unguiculate, pilose, imbricate or contorted. Disk excentric posticous 

 compressed-subcupular, higher at the back and unequally orenate. 

 Stamens 7, 8, suboentric, anterior to disk ; filaments free declinate ; 

 anthers oblong, introrsely 2-rimose, Germen as regards the stamens 

 central (in male flower rudimentary) stipitate, 3-gonal ; cells 3 (2 of 

 which are posterior); style subulate, at apex stigmatose simple. 

 Ovules in cells 2, inserted at the middle of the iaternal angle ; one 

 ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior ; the other descendent ; 

 micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit capsular membranous, 3-gonal, 

 looulicidally 3-valvate ; seeds (immature) arillate at base. — A glabrous 

 shrub ; leaves alternate, exstipulate imparipinnate ; petiole marginate 



1 "Testa purple.'" Mem. Mas. xviii.' 33. — Endl. Gen. n. 5623. — B. 



2 Red or -white, appearing early. H. Qen. 397, n. 17. — Bakbe, Fl. Maurit. 58. 

 ' A genus ty the character of its perianth ^ H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 248. 



and androceum recalling some Ccesalpinieas. ' A genus very near to Erythrophym, hav- 



< Spec. 2. of which one has a very excentric ing apparently the irregular form of Marpullia ; 



gynseceum, viz. E. tmdulata E. Met. loc. cit. — fruit in a species from Madagascar inflato- 



Haet. & SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 238. — ^Walp. Rep. i. vesiculose. 



411 [ErythropMla) ; Ann. vii. 623. [Spec. alt. ' Spec. 2, 3. 



madagasoar. H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 239. ^ Sook. Kew Journ, ix. 200 t. 6. — B. H. Gen 



6 Ex. J. Oen. 248.— Lame. Diet. ii. 132; 398, n. 20. 



lU. t. 256.— DO. Prodr. i. 614.— Gambess 



