8 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Manotes, closely analogous to Cnestis, has pentamerous her- 
maphrodite flowers; the calyx consists of five valvate sepals per- 
sisting around the fruit, though without any increase in size; the 
corolla, of five longer imbricated caducous petals. But a little 
while before the flower expands, the receptacle elongates above the 
perianth into a column with a thickened base, bearing on its apex 
five oppositipetalous carpels, with ten stamens inserted close below 
their ovaries. The staminal filaments are free, with subintrorse two- 
i Manotes Griffoniana. 
Fra. 12. 
Fruit. 
Fria. 13. 
Longitudinal section of seed. 
celled anthers dehiscing longitudinally. The ovaries are one-celled, 
tapering at the apex into a slender reflexed style, which ends in a 
capitate stigma. In the ventral angle of the ovary are inserted 
two collateral descending subanatropous’ ovules, whose micropyles 
look upwards and outwards. The fruit (fig. 12) consists of a variable 
sudden swelling of the pedicel as it passes into 
it; 2ndly. The form of the petals, which are 
long ligulate glabrous straps; 3rdly. The state 
of the interior surface of the pericarp which is 
said to be very glabrous. The flower has a calyx 
of five valvate sepals reflexed after anthesis and 
during maturation; ten stamens (of Cnestis) 
with filaments slightly united at the bases with 
short anthers reflexed after anthesis; und five 
carpels each with a biovulate ovary, a short style 
and a dilated stigma. The fruit consists of one 
or several sessile capsules, pubescent externally 
and containing a single arillate seed with a 
smooth testa. The only known species of this 
grown is 7. Griffithit Hoox. F., a nearly sar- 
mentose shrub from Malaysia, with rounded 
glabrous branches. Its leaves are glabrous and 
imparipinnate with sessile coriaccous obtuse 
leaflets, more or less bifid at the apex. The 
flowers are in axillary racemes of cymes. As 
regards the form and dimensions of Teniochlena, 
we should bear in mind that in certain species of 
Cnestis proper, such as C. corniculata Lamx., the 
petals form narrow tongues longer than the 
sepals at anthesis, so that we must not treat 
this character as of more than relative value 
(see above, p. 5, note 11; also Adansonia vii. 
241). 
1 Sonanp., ex Pu., in Linnea, xxiii. 488.— 
B. H., Gen., 433, n. 6.—H. Bn., in Adansonia, 
vii. 244. 
2 More or less anatropous according to the 
height on the ventral angle at which their 
umbilicus is inserted. Thus it is sometimes 
close to the base, when the ovule becomes nearly 
orthotropous. But in UW. Griffoniana H. By. 
(Adansonia, loc. cit., note 1), the attachment of 
the ovule is high up, and close to the micropyle. It 
is, however, near the middle of the upper edge of 
the ovule at anthesis, and rises gradually after fe- 
cundation. At the same time the chalazal end of 
the ovule tapers to a point, and insinuates itself 
into the narrow part of the cell of the ovary 
corresponding with the foot of the carpel. 
