VMBELLrPERM. 253 



spikes or racemes, 1-bracteate ; pedicel not articulate. {East. west, 

 t'rop. and south. Africa, Malacca.^) 



112. Hedera T.^ — Flowers ^ dicecious, polygamous or herma- 

 phrodite ; receptacle turbinate or obconical. Calyx very short, entire 

 or 5-dentate. Petals 4-8, valvate. Stamens as many, inserted 

 under depressed or more or less deeply conical disk. Germen 3-8- 

 celled ;* styles connate in cone or short column very shortly lobed at 

 apex {Euhedera,- Kissodendron^), or in great part or entirely free 

 tubulate, sometimes finally recurved ( Oreopanax ^) . Fruit baccate or 

 rarely subdrupaceous ; putamen thin ; albumen of descending seed 

 uniform, rugose or very ruminate (Euhedera). — Trees or shrubs, 

 glabrous or tomentose ; leaves entire lobed, or digitately (Oreopanax), 

 sometimes pinnately (Kissodendron) compound ; stipules minute or 

 ; umbelhiles or capitules of flowers in compound racemes or umbels ; 

 bracts oftener few or 0. (Temp. reg. of Old World, trop. and And. 

 America, Australia.^) 



113. Curtisia Ait.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; recep- 

 tacle turbinate sub-4-gonal. Sepals 4, conspicuous, 3-angular. Petals 

 4, longer, valvate or slightly imbricate or contorted.' Stamens 4, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments erect subulate ; anthers introrse, sub- 

 cordate at base, 2-rimose.^'' Germen in great part inferior, crowned 

 with thick glandular disk " interior to stamens produced upwards to 

 short conical style stigmatose 3-4-lobed at apex. Ovules solitary 

 in 3, or oftener 4 (oppositipetalous) cells, descending, incompletely 



• ' Spec, about 10. Jaco. f. &l. t. 61. — Coua, « Done, et Pl. Sev. Hort. (1854) 107, 108. 



Sort. Itip.iSjt. 26. — HoCHST. ^^0^(1834), 431. Seem. /omw. Bot. iii. 270.— B.H. Gen. 949, n. 34. 

 — DiETR. J?. Umv. (1866) t. 90.— Hakv. and ? Spec, atout 60. Jacq.. St. Amer. t. 61 {Jra- 



SoND. Fl. Cap. ii. 568. — Hiern, OUv. Fl. Trop. lia). — Sw. Fl. Ind. Oca. 618 (part). — Sm. Io. 



AJr. iii. 31. — Walp. Jtep. ii. 430 ; T. 925 ; Ann. Fict. t. 4.— Geiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 306 {Scia- 



ii. 723. dophyllum). — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 1, t. 



2 Inst. 612, t. 384.— L. Gen. n. 283 (part).— J. 413-416 {^Aralia).- G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 3'94'. 



Gen. Hi. — Gjeetn. Jrac^. i. 130, t. 26. — Lamk. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 384. Miq. Ann. 



Diet. iii. 511. — DC. Prodr. iv. 261 (part). — Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 158. — Boiss. H. Or. ii. 1090. 



Spaoh, Suit, d Buffon, viii. 124. — Ekdi. Gen. n. — Gken. et Godr. Fl. deFr. ii. 1. — AValp. Bep. 



4560.— Seem. Journ. Bot. ii. 303 ; iii. 201, t. 32. ii. 431 (part). 



— B. H. Gen. 946, n. 36. — H. Bn. Adansonia, ' Hort. Kern. ed. 1, 162 ; ed. 2, i. 270 (not 



xii. 164. SoHEEB.).— Endl. Gen. n. 4577. — B.H. Gen. 



' White or greenish. 949, n. 3.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 334 ; xii. 163. 



* Funiole of ovules oftener thickened to a ° But always much less than in the theoreti- 



small obturator over micropyle. cal fig. 214. 



5 Seem. /.«»■«. Bot. iii. 201 ; v. 129 ; vi. 129. " After dehiscence flat rayed. 



— IrvinyiaF.Mv^vL. Fraym. v.iT (not'RooK.^.). " Yejlowish. 



