ItUBIACHM. 409 



Entire or lobed ; branches of enclosed or exserted style 2, or more 



rarely 3-8, very various in form. Ovules in cells solitary, erect, 



anatropous, often compressed back and front ; micropyle extrorsely 



inferior. Fruit drupaceous ; exocarp fleshy or finally subdry ; pyrenes 



very various in form, often longitudinally costate at back, sometimes 



narrow-winged ; face flat, convex or concave, sometimes enlarged with 



spurious cellules ; columella various or 0. Seed conformed to pyrenes ; 



albumen copious fleshy or horny, equable or more rarely ruminate ; 



cotyledons of (oftener small) embryo narrow or rather broad ; radicle 



inferior. — Shrubs, or more rarely small trees, undeMhrubs or herbs, 



.rarely climbing, sometimes epiphytal; leaves opposite or rarely 



verticillate ; stipules interpetiolar or oftener intrapetiolar, free or 



connate, sometimes plurisetose, rarely widely membranous; flowers 



rarely a,xillar, most frequently terminal solitary, glomerulate or cymose; 



cymes often in compound racemes or collected in a spurious capitule ; 



bracts involucrant sometimes foliaceous or coloured. {All trop. and 



warm regions.) — See p. 280. 



36 ? Mesoptera Hook, f.' — Flowers (nearly of TJragoga) 5-merous; 

 calyx short dentate. Corolla shortly tubular, valvate. Stamens 5, 

 inserted va. throat; anthers apiculate. Disk epigynous orbicular. 

 Germen 2 -celled; ovule in cells 1, ascending; funicle short; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior. Style short ; " stigma large capitately 

 10-lobed. Fruit sub-2-dymous, 2-coccous ; cocci . . . ? " Other 

 characters of Uragoga.^ — A robust tree; leaves opposite, petiolate 

 large ovato-elUptical coriaceous, glossy above, dark-tomentose be- 

 neath; stipules broad aliform; flowers^ in dense axillary " ebracteo- 

 late " cymes. (Malacca.*) 



37. Thiersia H, Bn.® — Flowers (nearly of TJragoga) 4-merous ; 

 receptacle ovoid. Calyx short subentire or sinuate-dentate.* Corolla 

 narrow tubular, sHghtly pubescent within; lobes of sUghtly dilated 

 limb 4, valvate. Stamens 4, inserted in throat ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers oblong subenclosed, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled ; 

 disk epigynous highly conical; branches of enclosed style 2, short 

 obtuse, stigmatose within. Ovule in cells 1 ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit . . . ? — A tree (?) ; branches ancipitous-compressed ; 

 leaves opposite oblong penninerved dentate, unequal at base ; stipules 



1 Gen: ii. 130, n. 277.— HooK.JF";. Ind, iii. 136. " Spec. 1. M. Maingayi Hook. p. loc. cit. 



' Ofwiuohperhaps only a- sect, style 10-lobed? * Adansonia, xii. 335. 



3 Minute. ° After anthesis somewhat accrescent. 



