4«8 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



heynea)., 2-valvate, 1- or more rarely 2-spermous ; testa of arillate 

 seed crustaoeous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous fleshy embryo plano- 

 convex; radicle short superior. — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate 

 pinnate or 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets opposite or alternate ( Walsura) ; 

 flowers in axillary and terminal very ramose pedunculate sometimes 

 corymbiform racemes.-' (Tropical Asta.^) 



10. Ekebergia Sparrm,^ — Flowers (nearly of Trichilia) herma- 

 phrodite or polygamo-dioeceous ; calyx short, imbricate, 5-fid. 

 Petals 5, longer, imbricate, or rarely valvate. Stamens 10, 1- 

 adelphous; tube campanulate, 10- dentate; teeth each antheriferous ; 

 anthers introrse exserted. Germen surrounded by annular disk, 

 2-5-locular ; style short, clavate or subturbinate to stigmatose apex 

 or disciform, indistinctly 2-5-lobed; ovules in cells 2, superposed 

 descendent. Fruit baccate coriaceous indehiscent; cells 1-5, 1- 

 spermous; embryo of exarillate seed thick .fleshy. — Trees; leaves 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; flowers in axillary ramosely com- 

 pound cymiferous racemes.* {Tropical and South Africa.^) 



11. Beddomea Hook, r.^ — " Calyx 5-partite; lobes broad ovate, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, thick orbiculate, the interior smaller, imbricate. 

 Staminal tube short ; margin slightly crenulate. Anthers 8, thick, 

 sessile to apex of tube exserted oonnivent, 3 -angular acute ; connec- 

 tive very thick; cells marginal narrow, finally confluent at apex. 

 Germen conical shortly hirsute, immersed in inconspicuous tomen- 

 tose disk, 3-locular ; style short thick ; stigmatically 3-lobed pyra- 

 midal ; ovules in cells 2, collateral pendulous. Fruit...? — A sub- 

 scandent shrub ; twigs terete ; in the recent ones, panicles and 

 petioles somewhat tomentose with reddish pubescence ; leaves im- 

 paripinnate ; rachis terete ; leaflets opposite, l-2.paired petiolate 

 ovately or elliptically oblong very entire ; panicles axillary few- 

 flowered.^ " {Neilgherry mountains.^) 



12 ? Hearnia F. Muell.^— " Sepals 5, unequal, imbricate. Petals 



1 Very near Trichilia. ' Spec. 4, 6. Fresbn. in Mua. Senlc. ii. 278 



^ Spec. 8, 9. Wight, HI. t. 55 [WaUmra). — {Trichilia). — Hakv. andSoND. Fl. Cap. i. 247. 



Thw. Emm. PI. Zet/l. 61. — Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. — Guill. et Pekb. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 126, t. 31. 



i. p. ii. 642 ; Suppl. i. 506.— H. Bn. in Adan- —Out. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 332. —A. Rich. Fl. 



sonia, xi. 265. — ^Walp. Hep. i. 431 {Walsura), Abyss. Tent. i. 105, t. 24. — H. Bn. Adansonia, 



432 ; Ann. iv. 389 {Walsura). xi. 263.— W alp. Rep. i. 431 ; Ann. ii. 227. 



^ Act. Solm. (1779), 282, t. 9.— J. Gen. 265. « Gen. 336, n. 24. 



— Lamk. Diet. ii. 346 ; Suppl. ii. 543 ; III. t. 1 " Flowers rather large pedicillate ; calyx 



368. — DC. Prodr. i. 623. — Spach, Suit, d ferrugiQeou8tomentoBe;petalaglal)rou8." (Hook. 



Bwffon, iit. 191. — ^A. JtJSS. Meliac. 81, t. 6. — p. by whom the characters are selected.) 



Endl. &en. n. 6538.— B. H. Gen. 335, n. 21. ^ gpgg i_ ^ Ijidica Hook. f. loc. cit. 



■* Very near rWc^jVia ; it differs principally in ^ Fi-agm. v. 65. — B. H. Gen. 994, n. 24 k. 

 its baccate fruit and exarillate seeds. 



