18 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
longer than calyx, valvate. Stamens 10 (of Cnestis) ; filaments con- 
nate close to base. Carpels 5, oppositipetalous sessile; style slender 
elongated ; apex thickened, entire or 2-lobed, stigmatiferous. Capsule 
solitary sessile velvety, glabrous within. Seed furnished at base 
with a fleshy adnate dimidiate aril—A velvety-pubescent tree or 
shrub ; leaves alternate-imparipinnate ; flowers axillary and terminal, 
in crowded branched many-flowered cymiferous racemes; pedicels 
bracteate at base (Panama, Mewico). See p. 7. 
6. Teeniochleena Hoox. F.—Calyx 5-partite; sepals inserted on a 
small hemispherical or obconical receptacle, revolute in the fruit, 
valvate in estivation. Petals long ligulate glabrous. Stamens 10, 
and carpels 5 (of Cnestis). “Capsules 1-3 sessile ovoid subcom- 
pressed obtuse pubescent, quite glabrous within. Seed oblong, base 
supported on an adnate dimidiate aril; testa shining ; cotyledons 
amygdaloid.” —A subscandent shrub; branches glabrous; leaves 
imparipinnate quite glabrous; leaflets subsessile oblong, 2-lobed at 
apex, coriaceous; flowers axillary cymoso-racemose ; inflorescence to- 
mentose, shorter than the leaf; pedicels slender (Malaysia). See p. 7. 
7. Manotes Soranp.—F lowers hermaphredite ; receptacle conical, 
produced beyond corolla into a slender erect column bearing carpels 
at its apex. Calyx 5-partite valvate. Petals 5, alternate linear 
longer than sepals, imbricated in estivation, caducous. Stamens 
10, inserted below carpels, free, oppositipetalous stamens shorter ; 
‘ anthers introrse 2-rimose, finally reflexed. Carpels 5, oppositi- 
petalous; ovaries free, borne on summit of column; styles linear 
reflexed ; apices capitate stigmatiferous ; ovules 2, collateral, inserted 
either at base or at a variable height on internal angle of ovary, 
orthotropous or subanatropous ; micropyle superior. Capsules 1-5 
borne on a common stalk, separately stipitellate, reflexed ; pericarp 
subdrupaceous ; epicarp pubescent ; mesocarp thin; endocarp woody, 
much shorter than mesocarp, finally dehiscing as a follicle ventrally. 
Seed subanatropous descending; external integument cellular even ; 
albumen hard copious ; embryo green inverted ; radicle short superior ; 
cotyledens foliaceous.—Trees or shrubs, pubescent; leaves impari- 
pinnate; flowers in compound cymiferous, terminal or axillary 
racemes; pedicels bracteolate articulated (Western Tropical Africa). 
See p. 8. 
