4-26 NATUBAL EISTORY OF PLANTS. 



entire or thinly lobecl. Fruit 2-oo -celled, drupaceous ; putamens l-oo ; 

 often 2-dymo-obcordate; flesh often scanty; epicarp glabrous, sericeous 

 or hirsute. Albumen of generally descending rarely more or less 

 ascending seed copious, fleshy or dense, rarely ruminate ; cotyledons 

 of straight or bent generally elongate embryo short ; radicle superior, 

 — Small trees or shrubs, rarely herbs '{Fadogia), often glabrous or 

 variously clothed; stem sometimes climbing, unarmed or often 

 spinose ; leaves opposite or verticillate ; stipules inter- or intrapetiolar, 

 cuspidate or acuminate, connate, persistent ; flowers ' in cymes or 

 glomerules, oftener axillary, pedicellate or subsessile, rarely few or 

 solitary ; inflorescence involucrate with 2 bracts more or less connate 

 {Psydrax) or united in a broadly obconical cupule {Scyphochlamys ^). 

 (All trop. reg. of Old World.') 



66 ? Craterispermum Benth.'* — Flowers (nearly of Canthium) 

 5-merous; calyx cupular, dentate or sinuate, expanded coriaceous. 

 Lobes of funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform corolla 5, valvate ; throat 

 pilose. Stamens 5, inserted in throat; filaments short; anthers 

 oblong introrse dorsifixed, enclosed or exserted. Germen 2-celled ; 

 descending ovule &c. of Canthium;^ disk epigynous thick; style- 

 branches 2, recurved or connate in a subfusiform mass. Fruit dru- 

 paceous ; endocarp chartaceous ; front of descending albuminous seed 

 exsculptured ; radicle of small embryo^ superior. Glabrous shrubs ; * 

 leaves opposite oblong coriaceous venose ; stipules interpetiolar connate 

 with petioles broad, persistent ; flowers in axillary or supra-axillary 

 pedunculate often capituliform 'cymes, bracteolate. (Trop. Africa.'') 



1 Generally small, more rarely rather large 645. — Benth. M. Austral, iii. 420 ; Fl. Songle. 



showy, white, greenish, yellowish or pink, 158. — P. Mubll. Fragm. ix. 185 (Pleeirom'a). 



sometimes sweet-scented. — Bedd. le. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 238, 239 ; Fl. Sylv. 



5 Balf. p. Bah. Fl. Maur. 149 ; Journ. Linn. t. 221 ; cxxxiv. 6 (Pkctronia). — Thw. Enum. 



Soc. xvi. 13 ; £ot. Eedrig. 48, t. 25. PI. Ziyi. 152.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 220, 226. 



' Spec, ahout 140. jAca. Sort. SchoBnlr. t. 44 — Walp. Rep. ii. 475 {Mitrastigma), 484, 942 



(Vangmria). — 'Wight, Icon. t. 826, 1034, 1064 {Vcmgueria) ; vi. 46 [Mitrastigma), 47; Ann. i. 



bis {Pleotronia). — Eoxb. PI. Coram, t. 61 (^Plec- 374; ii. 756, 7 6i {Vangueria), 165 {Pachystigma, 



tronid). — Hahv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 13 ( Van- Cuviera, Dondisia), 766 {Rytigynia) ; v. 112. 

 gmria), 16, 17 (Pleetronia). — Balp. p. Journ. * Siger Fl. ill. — B. H. ffen. ii. 112, n. 233. — 



Linn. Soe. xvi. 14 {Pi/rostria) ; Bot. Rodr. 47, t. Baker, Fl. Maurit. 146. 

 24 [Pyrostria ?). — Bak. Fl. Maur. 146 (Plectra- * Of which perhaps rather a section f 



nia), 147 [Vangueria), 184 {Pyrostria). — Kl. * Yellowish green. 



Pet. Moss. Bot. 291.— HiEKN, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 7 Spec. 4, 5. PoiR. Diet. Suppl. ii. 14 {Coffea). 



132, 146 {Vangueria), 152 {Fadogia), 166 {Cuvi- — Hiekn, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 160.— Baker, Fl. 



era), 158 (Anoylanthoa). — Wawr. Flora (1876), Maur. 146.— Benth. Sook. Icon. t. 1236. — 



273.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 248 ( Vamgueria), 252, Walp. Ann. ii. 758. 

 313 {Pyrostria); Suppl. 644 {Vangueria), 2^1,- 



