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Stamens twice as many as the petals, the filaments united in a cam- 
panulate or cylindrical cup or tube round the ovary ; anthers 2-celled, 
splitting longitudinally. Ovary 4-5-celled ; ovules 2 in a cell ; style 
long, entire ; stigma capitate. Fruit in Mauritian genera a round 
lobed capsule, with loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, 
albuminous. — Trees or shrubs with simple or pinnate exstipulate usually 
alternate leaves and copious small flowers. Distrib. Bound the world 
in the tropics. Species 270. 
Leaves simple. 
Anthers stalked at the top of the tube 1. Turrjea. 
Anthers sessile at the top of the tube 2. Quivisia. 
Leaves compound ; * Carapa. 
1. TURK.® A, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx campanulate, with 5 deltoid teeth. 
Petals 5, strap-shaped, valvate, hypogynous. Stamens 10, the filaments 
connate in a long tube, free at the top ; anthers oblong. Ovary 5- 
celled ; ovules 2 in a cell ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit 
a 5-celled capsule, finally dehiscing. — Trees with alternate petioled 
entire leaves and flowers in axillary cymes. Distrib. Tropics of Old 
World. Species 16. 
1. T. rigida, Vent. Choix, t. 48. A bush or tree glabrous through- 
out. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, entire, firm, obtuse or acute, 4-6 
inches long, penninerved. Flowers in sessile fascicles from nodes of 
branches or old wood ; pedicels \ inch. Calyx in. long, campanu- 
late, shortly toothed, slightly silky. Corolla f— 1 inch long, tubular, at 
first silky on outside. Stamens nearly as long as petals, the fila- 
ments free ± down. Capsule 3-4-celled by abortion. DC. Brod. i. 
620. Quivisia chilosantha, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 58. 
Mauritius ; forests of the interior about Moka, etc. Endemic. 
2. QUIVISIA, Comm. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx campanulate or discoid, with 4-5 
small deltoid teeth. Petals 4-5, obtuse, valvate. Stamens twice as 
many as the petals ; filaments united in a tube up to the top. Ovary 
globose, 4-5-celled ; 2 collateral ovules in a cell ; style long, entire ; 
stigma capitate. Fruit a hard globose capsule splitting loculicidally 
into 4-5 valves. Seeds oblong with a large lateral hilum. — Shrubs, 
with leaves alternate entire, or upper opposite. Distrib. Confined to 
Mauritius, Bourbon, and Rodriguez. Species 3. 
Filaments joined in a cylindrical tube 1. Q. mauritiana. 
Filaments joined in a short cup. 
Pedicels | inch long 2. Q. laciniata. 
Pedicels Ft inch long 3. Q. filipes. 
1. Q. mauritiana, Balcer. A much-branched glabrous shrub, 
reaching a height of 10 or 15 feet. Leaves short-petioled, alternate 
or upper opposite, obovate or oblong, 1-3 inches long, cuneate at the 
base, firm, penninerved, obtuse or subacute, entire or in one variety 
