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The sessile or subsessile ovary ends in a subulate style, undilated at 
its stigmatiferous apex, and contains one or more descending 
anatropous ovules attached by funicles, and with their micropyles 
upwards and outwards. The fruit is a flattened oblong or oval thin 
coriaceous indehiscent pod, whose sutures are indicated by two pro- 
minent ribs, with their concavities facing, and their convexities pro- 
duced into a continuouswing forming an uninterrupted frameall round 
the pericarp. Inside are one or more flattened reniform seeds, whose 
fleshy embryo has a short straight radicle, and is surrounded by a 
thin layer of albumen. Of the two known species of the genus one 
is from Brazil, the other from Guiana; both are unarmed trees, 
whose imparipinnate leaves have very caducous stipules. The flowers 
are collected in numbers at the ends of the branches in large branch- 
ing compound racemes; each flower is axillary to a very caducous 
elongated bract. 
The flower of Storchiella, though usually tetramerous, or more 
rarely di- or tri-merous, comes very near Martia; but its calyx 
and corolla, imbricated in the bud, are inserted on the rim 
of a cup-shaped receptacle, in the bottom of which is inserted 
the gyneceum. The stamens are usually ten in number’ in the first 
known species, S. vitiensis Sxzm. In a second species from New 
Caledonia, 8. Pancheri,' there are usually only four alternipetalous 
stamens, as in Martia; it has accordingly been placed in a distinct 
section, under the name of Doga. In both species the stamens 
consist of a free filament and an introrse two-celled anther, each cell 
of which opens by a short cleft in the upper part of the longitudinal 
groove on its face. The shortly stipulate ovary contains an indefinite 
number of anatropous ovules, whose micropyles look upwards and 
outwards. It is surmounted by a style with an obtuse stigmatiferous 
apex. The fruit is an elongated compressed coriaceous valved pod, 
expanded along its placentary edge into a wing. It contains a 
variable number of seeds, with pretty long funicles, containing 
within the seed-coats, a greenish embryo surrounded by fleshy 
albumen. The genus Storckiella consists of Oceanian trees, whose 
.} Watp., Rep., i. 841.—Frenp. & Garpn., 3 There are sometimes eleven, twelve, or even 
Sert. Plant., t. 11. more. 
2 Srem., in Bonplandia, ix, 255; a. 363, 4H. By., loc. cit,— Cassia Pancheri VIELL. 
t.6; Fl. Vitéiens., 68, t.13.—B. H., Gen., 571, (ex B. H., loc. cit.), —Doga macrogemma PaNncH., 
1008, n. 325.—H. Bn., in Adansonia, ix. 204. herb. 
