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OLACINEJE. 
\_Ximenia. 
Petals 4-5, hypogynous, valvate bearded on the face. Stamens twice 
as many as the petals ; filaments free, filiform ; anthers linear, basi- 
fixed. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 3, pendulous from a central placenta ; 
style long, entire ; stigma capitate. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe, with a 
bony endocarp. — Trees or shrubs, often spinose; leaves alternate, entire; 
flowers in axillary cymes. Disteib. Three other species, Cape, Poly- 
nesian, and Mexican. 
1. X. americana, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 533. A much-branched 
glabrous shrub 10-15 feet high. Spines in the axils of the leaves, 
subulate, spreading, often absent. Leaves short-petioled, obovate or 
oblong, 1-2 inches long, obtuse, firm, entire. Flowers in copious nearly 
sessile axillary cymes ; pedicels shorter than the flower, ascending. 
Petals inch long, lingulate, falcate when expanded, clothed with 
long dense hairs on the face. Stamens included. Drupe as large as 
a plum, oblong, scarlet, edible. 
Seychelles, near the sea at Praslin, Horne ! Bound the world in the tropics ; 
rare in Africa. 
3. APODYTES, E. Meyer. 
Calyx minute, with 5 deltoid teeth joined in a cup. Petals 5, cadu- 
cous, lingulate, valvate. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals ; fila- 
ments short, rather flattened ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary 1- 
celled ; ovules 2, pendulous, superposed ; style filiform, oblique ; stigma 
capitate. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe, witb a crustaceous endocarp. — 
Trees with alternate entire leaves and minute fragrant flowers in 
dense very compound panicles. Disteib. Tropics of the Old World. 
Species 9. 
1. A. mauritiana, Planch, in Herb. Kew. A tree 30-40 feet high. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, glabrous, oblong, entire, obtuse or 
subacute, 2-3 inches long, moderately firm. Flowers in short-peduncled 
deltoid terminal panicles 2-3 inches long ; branches with short brown 
pubescence; pedicels very short; bracts minute, deltoid. Calyx very 
smalt, pilose. Petals caducous, glabrous, T \ inch long. Stamens 
included ; filament as long as the oblong anther. Ovary villose, 
shorter than the oblique style. Icacina mauritiana, Miers, Cont. i. 56. 
Mauritius, in woods of the Pouce, Moka, Colville Bridge, etc. Endemic. 
Dr. Wright and Mr. Home send from the Seychelles as common on the hills of Mahe 
and other islands specimens of a tree 50-60 feet high, of which we need to have 
flowers to decide whether it belong to Gomphandra or Lasianthera. It has oblong 
entire obtuse coriaceous short-petioled leaves 4-6 inches long, inflorescence a dense 
short-peduncled axillary cyme, pedicels very short, calyx minute with 6-7 oblong 
ciliated imbricated teeth, ovary 1 -celled oblong pilose with a sessile capitate stigma, 
drupe oblong one-seeded 5 — 3 - inch long. Bois Marie. 
Order XXVII. CELASTRACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx small, spreading, persistent, 
with 4-5 deep teeth. Petals the same number, short, spreading, im- 
bricate. Disk broad, annular. Stamens as many as the petals, alter- 
