500 NATfRAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



enclosed in a tube 10-fid above, introrsely 2-rimose.^ Germen clothed 

 at attenuated and shortly obconical base with glandulous disk,^ 1-2- 

 locular ; style erect cylindrical, apex stigmatose depressed capitate ; 

 ovules in cells 2, subsuperposed. Fruit globular stipitate baccate, 

 1-spermous; " hilum of peltate seed ventral." — Trees; leaves 

 abruptly pinnate,^" leaflets opposite petiolulate, unequal at base; 

 the uppermost sometimes least ; flowers in full very ramosely com- 

 pound racemes. {Borneo, Manilla.''') 



15. Turrseantlius H. Bn.^ — Flowers nearly of Basycohum, 

 4-5-merou8 ; calyx short cupular dentate. Petals coriaceous 

 connate with each other in clavate tube and below with staminal tube, 

 at apex free valvate. Stamens 8-10 ; anthers enclosed at top of 

 unequally lobed or crenate tube. Disk 0. Germen 1-locular; style 

 erect, apex depressed capitate discoid stigmatose ; placentae parietal 

 septiform 4, 5, more or less prominent, 2-ovulate. Ovules subor- 

 thotropal or presenting a very short descendent ventral raphe; 

 mieropyle ascendent extrorsely superior. Fruit . . . ? — Glabrous 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate or 3-foliolate ; leaflet termi- 

 nal articulate ; lateral alternate ; flowers in small racemiform or 

 corymbiform cymes, axillary or springing laterally from the wood, 

 sometimes remotely alternate in slender axillary twig, articulate, 

 bracteate. {Tropical western Africa.^) 



16. S3aiotiin A. Jtrss.'' — Flowers 4-merous ; calyx gamophyllous ' 

 lacinise rotund or acute, imbricate. Petals 4, longer coriaceous, con- 

 torted or imbricate. Stamens 8 ; anthers inserted at crenulate mouth 

 of short and broad cylindrical tube semi-exserted, introrse, 2 rimose. 

 Germen depressed ovoid, seated upon a very short disk (?), hirsute, 

 produced to straight style widely discoid at stigmatose apex ; cells 3, 

 2-ovulate ; ovules in pairs descendent ; hilum far adnate to placenta ; 

 mieropyle extrorsely superior ; or finally variously oblique. Capsule 

 globular sub-3-lobed, subfleshy, finally loculicidal; valves 3, in 

 the middle internally septiferous ; seeds furnished above with a fleshy 

 layer (aril). — A small glabrous tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite sessile lanceolate j flowers in spurious short axillary 

 cymiferous sparsely ramose racemes. {Subtropical Australia.^) 



' Pollen in superposed cateniform maBsea. ' Spec. 2. 



2 Now nearly obsolete. 1 Meliac. 74, t. 4.— Endl. Gen. n. 5532.— 



' Innovations and iaflorescence subsericeous B. H. Gen. 335, n. 18. — Sohoutensia'Sn'mi^. Prodr. 



greyish pubescent. Fl. Norfolk, 79, not. 



■• Spec. 2. H. Bn. Aiamonia, xi. 263. » Spec. 1. S. glandulosum A. Juss. loc. cit. 

 ' Adansoiiia, xi. 261. 



