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sum, apice glabrum subtrilbo-stigmatosum, 3-loculare ; gemmulae 
in loculis solitariae, erectae, apotropae, campylotropae, micro- 
pyle extrorsum infera. Capsula in ramulo sympodiali brevi d= 
glabrato terminalis, pedicello brevissimo suffulta, pyriformis, 
in stipitem brevem sulcis staminum insertionibus respondentibus 
notatum attenuata, breviter apiculata, sufFerrugineo-tomentosa, 
abortu plerumque 1-locularis, ad latus loculis eifoetis compres- 
sis respondens ± applanata, denique loculicide dehiscens, peri- 
carpio corticoso cellularum sclerenchymaticarurn concretionibus 
crebris instructo et cellulis secretoriis substantiam oleoso-resin- 
osam foventibus persito, endocarpio sclerenchymatico transver- 
sim fibroso piiis adpressis praesertim basi prope seminis inser- 
tionem (in loculis effoetis vero undique densius) obsito; semen 
ad loculi angulum centralem prope basin insertum, obovatum, a 
lateribus compressiusculum, atro-fuscum, glabrum, exarillatum, 
testa Crustacea laevi intus in protuberantias nodosas partim 
literae T figuram aemulantes versus seminis centrum protrusas 
(quodammodo illis in Anonacearum seminibus endospermium 
ruminatum efficientibus similes) producta (unde generis nomen). 
Embryo curvatus (ut videtur, notorrhizus) , cotyledonibus (in 
semine observato nondum plane evolutis tenuibus) testae protu- 
berantiis arete applicitis, radicula in seminis dorso descendente 
plica testa profunda excepta. 
Arbor ; rami teretiusculi, superne 5-sulcati, ut et petioli 
paniculaeque piiis brevibus basi dilatata collapsis hyalinis cete- 
rum materie fusca repletis sufferrugineo-tomentelli. Folia 
abrupte pinnata, longiuscule petiolata, petiolo supra sulco ex- 
arato subtus convexo striolato; foliola 5-6, larga, subopposita, 
late elliptica, breviter obtuse acuminata, in petiolulos longius- 
culos basi incrassatos abruptius attenuata, integerrima, char- 
tacea, nervis lateralibus utrinque ca. 9 oblique vel superioribus 
arcuatim adscendentibus, subtus prominentibus, glabra, utrinque 
opaca, supra pallide subfusca, subtus viridula, ad paginam supe- 
riorem hypodermate hie illic interrupto tannino crystallisque 
destitute instructa, diachymate praeter strata inferiora chlor- 
ophyllophora tanninigero cellulis secretoriis parvis substantiam 
oleoso-resinosam gerentibus laxe persito, epidermide non muci- 
gera. Paniculae axillares, sat amplae, ramis thyrsoideis dense 
cincinnos sessiles glomeruliformes gerentibus, bracteis bracteo- 
lisque perparvis ovatis obtusiusculis. Alabastra globosa, ses- 
silia. 
Species 1, philippinensis. 
Genus calyce parvo et semine exarillato accedens ad genus 
