RVBIACEJU. m 



67 ? Prismatomeris Tw.' — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; recep- 

 tacle oblong-obovoid (shorter in male flower). Calyx cupular, sub- 

 entire or 4, 5-dentate. Tube of hypocrateriform corolla terete, throat 

 glabrous; lobes of limb 4, 6, elongate thickly 3-gonal, valvate or 

 subreduplicate, finally patent. Stamens same in number enclosed (in 

 female flower effete or 0); filaments short; anthers dorsifixed near 

 base elongate introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower effete) 

 2-celled ; disk various thick obconical or depressed rather concave ; 

 style slender, fusiform- 2-lobed stigmatose above enclosed. Ovules in 

 cells solitary descending, incompletely anatropous ; micropyle introrse 

 ventral, sometimes inferior. Fruit baccate globose or ovoid ; cells 1, 

 2, 1-spermous. Seed subglobose, oftener unequal, ventrally attached ; 

 albumen copious dense ; cotyledons of vertical or more or less oblique 



embryo ovate or reniform ; radicle elongate inferior Shrubs oftener 



glabrous ; branches sub-4-gonal (pale) ; leaves opposite, oblong- 

 lanceolate coriaceous, shortly petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar rather 

 broad and large cuspidate; flowers^ in axillary or- subterminal 

 umbeUiform cymes.^ (South east. trop. Asia, Ind. Archip.*) 



68. Damnacanthus Gjeetn. f.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or more 

 rarely polygamous, 4, 5-merous ; lobes of calyx pointed, persistent. 

 Throat of funnel-shaped corolla glabrous ; lobes 4, 5, thick-3-gonal, 

 valvate. Exserted stamens &c. of Prismatomeris. Germen 2-4-celled ; 

 disk epigynous rather thick ; branches of slender style 2-4, recurved 

 obtuse papillose. Ovules in cells solitary, descending, incompletely 

 anatropous or suborthotropous. Fruit drupaceous ; * putamens 1-4, 

 chartaceous, 1-spermous. Seeds descending; albumen horny copious ; 

 radicle of more or less oblique embryo inferior. — Very ramose shrubs ; 

 ramules partly sterile spinescent; leaves opposite (small), scarcely 

 petiolate, ovate-acuminate coriaceous rigid glabrous; stipules intra- 

 petiolar, 2, 3-cuspidate ; flowers ^ axillary or subterminal, solitary or 



' Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 268, t. 7; Enum. PI. 29, iv.; cxxxiv.-9. 



Zeyl. 164, 421.— B. H. Gen. -ii. Ill, n. 250.— H. ° Fruct. iii. 18, 1. 182, fig. 7.— DC. rrodr. iv. 



BN.j4rf«««o«»a,xii. 200.— Hoox.ii'i.iBd.iii. 169. 473.— Endl. (?e». n. 3178.— B. H. Gen. ii. 118, 



' Moderate, white. n. 249. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 322. — Hook. 



' A genus very near Canthium (of -whicli per- Fl. Ind. iii. 158. — Battmannia DC. PI. Rar. Jard. 



haps a sect.) differing chiefly in apex of style Cfenh. vi. 1, t. 1, 26. — Endl. Gen. u. 3189. 



and pecnliar character of ovule and seed. * "Red." 



■• Spec. 1, 2. RoxB. Fl. Ind. i. 638 (Cofea).— ? "White, moderate, odorous. 

 Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 39 ; Fl. Sylv. S. Ind. t. 



