426 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



2-rimose. Germen subcentric, 4-5-loCTilar ; cells oppositipetalous, 

 1 -ovulate ; style elongate curved, at apex stigmatose more or less 

 obpyramidal ; micropyle of ascendent sub-basilar ovule extrorsely 

 inferior. 1 Capsule coriaceous or ligneous, loculicidally 4-5-valvate; 

 valves in the middle septiferous within; embryo albuminous straight; 

 radicle inferior. Seeds arillate. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets entire or serrulate ; stipules intra-petiolate 

 2-nate, connate at base ; flowers in simple terminal or lateral racemes. 

 {Tropical and Southern Africa?) 



71. Greyia Hook, and Haev.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 6, 

 orbieulate, imbricate persistent. Petals 5, perigynous, imbricate, 

 deciduous. Disk cupular crowned with 10 staminodes glanduliferous 

 at apex. Stamens 10, inserted within the disk; filaments filiform 

 subdeclinate far exserted ; anthers ovate, 2-dymous. Germen oblong 

 deeply 5-sulcate, from the placentiferous introflexed margins of the 

 carpels semi-6-locular, attenuated to a slender style slightly stigma- 

 tose at apex; ovules oo, 2-seriate in parietal placentas. Capsule 

 membranous, septicidally foUiculately 5-partite, Seeds co, minute ; 

 testa membranous ; embryo at base of fleshy albumen minute." — 

 Small trees ; wood soft ; leaves * alternate petiolate exstipulate cor- 

 dately subrotund duplicately crenate or sublobate glabrous glandu- 

 lose ; " flowers ^ in dense axillary racemes." {South Africa.^) 



YII? AITOFIE^. 



72. Aitonia L. f. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular, 4-merous ; 

 sepals connate at base, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4, alternate, 

 much longer ; in prsefloration imbricate or ofbener tortuous. Stamens 

 8, inserted under small crenate disk ; filaments at base 1-adelphous 

 connate in a tube, afterwards free exserted filiformly subulate ; 

 anthers oblong introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free, sub-4-lobate ; style 



' Funicle aliort erect, sometimes (at least in 3 Proc. Dtibl. Vniv. Zool. and Sot. Asa. i. 138, 



1 species) more or less dilated, hence closing the t. 13, 14. 



myoropyle. * Somewhat recalling those of Francoa. 



2 Spec. 4. A. KiCH. M. Abyss. Tent. i. 107, t. * Scarlet showy. 



26.— Pl. Niger, 252, t. 29 (iVsteZw) .— Hakv. " Spec. 1. G. Sutkirlar.di HorK. and Hart. 



and ,SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 369 {Natalia).— "BAKsn, — Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 1 ; Fl. Cap. ii. 308.— 



M. Trop. Afr. i. 433. Walp. Ai„i. vii. 911 [Saxifrag.). 



