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'J'HALAMIFLOR/E. 
ORDER LIII. OCHNACEiE. 
Calycine sepals 5, persistent, imbricated during 
aestivation. Petals hypogynous, in number 5, alter- 
nating with the sepals, or 10, caducous, patulous, 
imbricated during aestivation. Stamens 5, alternating 
with the petals, or 10, or indefinite, inserted on a 
hypogynous disk : filaments generally persistent : an- 
thers 2-celled, innate, opening by pores. Carpels 
equal in number to the petals, placed on an enlarged 
tumid fleshy disk (called the gynobase ) : styles com- 
bined in one : ovules erect. Fruit of as many pieces 
as there were carpels, indehiscent, somewhat drupa- 
ceous, 1 -seeded, articulated on the gynobase, which 
grows with their growth. Seeds exalbuminous : em- 
bryo straight : radicle short : cotyledons thick. 
Tropical trees or shrubs, having a watery juice ; leaves alter- 
nate, simple, with two stipules at the base; flowers usually in 
racemes, with the pedicels articulated at the middle or below it. 
They are possessed of no known remarkable properties. 
I. Gomphia. 
Petals 5. Stamens 10 ; anthers subsessile, long, 
pyramidal, erect, dehiscent at the apex by means of a 
double pore. Locules of the pericarp 5. 
Racemes from the ends of the branchlets bearing the leaves. 
blame, from yo/j,tpiog molar tooth, from yo/j.<pog a nail, because the 
molar teeth are inserted into their sockets like nails, and the 
drupes in the present genus are placed on the gynobase in a 
similar manner. 
I. Gomphia laurifolia. Laurel-leaved Gomphia. 
Leaves oblong acuminate at both ends with the 
apex obtuse very entire shining obscurely nerved. 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 741. — De Cand. Ann. du Museum , 
XVII. 419. t. 15. 
HAB. Near Bridgehill; and road from Blackgrove to Pleas- 
ant-Hill, St. Andrew’s. 
FIj. January. 
