UMBELLIFERJE. 255 



shrubs ; leaves alternate imparipinnate, or the upper opposite simple ; 

 stipules connate within base of petiole short or ; flowers in solitary 

 or umbellate umbellules ; bracts very small ; pedicels not articulate, 

 or constricted under flower and sometimes obscurely articulate.' 

 {Malaya, Ind. Archip.^) 



116. Mastixia Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Arthrophyllwn) 4-5- 

 merous ; receptacle subcampanulate or turbinate. Calyx short, 4-5- 

 dentate. Petals 4-5, and stamens of Arthrophyllum. Germen 

 inferior, 1-celled, 1 -ovulate ; style short thick, stigmatose at apex ; 

 disk epigynous fleshy depressed or conical. Ovule descending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous, subglobose or 

 oblong, areolate at apex; putamen hard, sometimes longitudinally 

 sulcate- and then having a vertically intruded process. Seed de- 

 scending, sometimes deeply sulcate along process of putamen; 

 albumen fleshy uniform ; embryo small subapical. — Glabrous trees 

 or bushes ; leaves * alternate and opposite, entire ; flowers in terminal 

 compound-cymiferous (?) racemes ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate.® 

 {East Ind. penins., Ceijlon.^) 



117. Plerandra A. Gbay.' — Flowers^ hermaphrodite (or poly- 

 gamous?); calyx short, entire, sinuate or dentate. Petals oftener 5, 

 thick,' concave within, 2-locellate, valvate ; point induplicate. Stamens 

 either 10, 5-adelphous ; filaments each 2-antheriferous alternipetalous 

 {Pentadiplandra^") ; or 10-18, 1-seriate (2VipZasajitZ)'a"), sometimes 

 to 15, " 1-seriate" {Bakeria^') or oftener oo , pluriseriate {Tetraplas- 



^ Concerning the somewhat douhtful auto- a section ; incorrectly considered by Decaisne 

 nomy of the gen. Mastixia see next genus. (Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, ix. 279) as OJacinea-Opiliea. 



c. 3, 4. ZoLr,. et Mob. Verx. 41.— Jungh. « Spec. 6, 7. Miq. PL Jungh. 426 ; PL Ind.- 



et DE Vries, Ned. Eruidk. Arch. i. 19. — Miq. Sat. i. p. i. 771, 1095. — Walp. Ann. i. 1 24 



FL Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 767, t. 14.— C. Koch, {Burdnopetaluni). 



Wochenschr. (1859) 370.— Walp. Ann. i. 982. < Un. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 729, t. 95 (1854). 



2 Bijdr. 654 ; Mus. Lugd -Bat. i. 256, t. 58.— —Seem. Jowrn. Bat. ii. 241 ; FL Vit. t. 22. — 



DO. I'rodr. iv. 275.— Endl. Gen. n. 4578.— B. H. Oen. 949, n. 36.--H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 



H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 80.— B. H. Gen. 950, n. 136-138. 



6. — Bursinopetalum Wight, Icon. t. 956. — Thw. ^ "SVhite or yellowish. 



Kew Gard. Misc. vii. 242 ; Enum. FL Zeyl. 42. ' Sometimes expanded near anthesis, some- 



— Seew. Journ. Bot. ii. 205. times more or less calyptrately coherent and 



■• Growing darker by desiccation. circumscissus at base (which neither in the 



' Gen. of Nyiisece (Bl.), Jrjuifoliacece (Miees), Order nor in the genus seems of moment vary- 



CornaceiB (B. H.), perhaps congeneric with Ar- ing much in the same plant). 



throphyllum from which it differs chiefly in the '" H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 136. 



nature of its inflorescence and seed, nearly as " Seem. Journ, Bot. vi. 139, 165. 



i>'«»w^a)!«a;, of which perhaps it would be better '^ Seem. /()«>•<(. ^o<. ii. 248 ; FL Fit.t.21. 



