142 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
insertion and the perianth are nearly as in Dimorphandra. But the 
stamens are all ten fertile; their free filaments are surmounted by 
introrse two-celled anthers, whose connective is tipped by a terminal 
apiculus. The sessile or subsessile ovary ends in a short thick style, 
with a more or less oblique concave apex covered with stigmatic 
papilla. The ovary contains either two transverse or descending 
ovules whose micropyles look upwards and outwards, or only one, 
often ascending when adult with its micropyle downwards and 
inwards. ‘he oblong compressed coriaceous indehiscent (?) fruit 
contains one or two compressed suborbicular seeds, whose embryo is 
surrounded by a thin cartilaginous albumen. Two species of this 
genus are known.’ 
The floral receptacle of Lrythrophleum® (figs. 133, 134) is far 
more concave than in the two preceding genera; and hence the 
Erythrophleum guineense. 
Fie. 133. Fie. 134. 
Flower (8). Longitudinal section of flower. 
insertion of the perianth and androceum is far more decidedly 
perigynous. The receptacle is lined with glandular tissue; on its 
rim are inserted a five-toothed gamosepalous calyx, five equal petals, 
at first slightly imbricate but later valvate, and ten free stamens, five 
superposed to the teeth of the calyx, and five shorter to the petals ; 
the filament of each stamen bears an introrse two-celled anther of 
1 Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 271.—Oxtv.,  Gen., 588, n. 371.—Fillea Gort. & Purn., Fi. 
Fi. Trop. Afr., ii. 319. Seneg, Tent., i. 242, t. 55—Mavia Brrrot. F., 
2 ArzrL., ex R. Br., in Tuck. Congo, 438; Ill. Plant. Mossamb., i. 10, t. 3.—Laboucheria 
Misc. Works, ed. BEnn., i. 153, 290.—G. Dow, FF. MUELL., in Journ. Linn, Soc., iii. 158. 
Syst., ii, 424.—EnDL., Gen., n. 6818.—B. H., 
