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nate with them, inserted outside the base of the disk ; filaments short ; 
anthers minute, 2-celled, splitting lengthwise. Ovary 1-4-celled ; ovules 
2 in a cell, erect; style short, entire; stigma capitate. Fruit capsular 
or drupaceous. Seeds albuminous, often arillate. — Trees or shrubs, 
with opposite or alternate simple leaves, usually exstipulate, and 
copious small wide-opening cymose flowers. Distrib. Cosmopolitan. 
Species 400. 
Leaves opposite. 
Fruit a 1 -celled indehiscent capsule 1. Pleurostylia. 
Fruit a 2-4-celled drupe with thick bony endocarp . . 2. Eueodendron. 
Leaves alternate 3. Gymnosporia. 
1. PLEUROSTYLIA, Wt. and Arn. 
Calyx minute, spreading, with 4-5 deltoid spreading teeth. Petals 
4-5, oblong, spreading. Stamens 4-5, inserted outside the large annular 
disk ; filaments short, rather flattened ; anthers oblong. Ovary 1-celled, 
confluent with the disk ; style short, oblique ; stigma capitate. Fruit 
a turbinate 1-seeded indehiscent capsule. — Glabrous shrubs, with 
opposite entire simple leaves and minute flowers in axillary cymes. 
Distrib. East Indies and Madagascar. Species 3. 
1. P. leucocarpa. Baker. A much-branched shrub 12-15 feet 
high, glabrous throughout, with quadrangular branchlets. Leaves short- 
petioled, obovate-oblong, coriaceous, shining, venulose, obtuse or emar- 
ginate, 1-1-J in. long ; base cuneate. Flowers in short peduncled 
axillary cymes ^ pedicels very short. Petals oblong, whitish, in. 
deep. Capsule rather fleshy, % in. long, obliquely tipped by the short 
persistent style, containing one large dark brown obovoid seed. 
Euonymus leucocarpus, Bojer , Hort. Maur, 68. Boottia obovata, 
Ayres MSS. 
Mauritius ; hill forests of the Pouce and near Moka, Bojer , Bouton ! Endemic, 
hut very near the E. Indian and Ceylonese P. Wightii. 
2. ELJEODENDRON, Jacq. fil. 
Sepals 4-5, round, persistent. Petals 4-5, round, spreading. Sta- 
mens 4-5, inserted outside the large annular disk ; filaments short, 
subulate; anthers globose. Ovary depresso-globose, confluent with 
the disk, 2-4-celled ; ovules 2, erect ; style thick, short ; stigma capi- 
tate. Fruit a 2-4-celled drupe with a thick bony endocarp. — Trees 
or shrubs, with simple opposite leaves and copious minute flowers in 
axillary cymes. Distrib. Species 30; mostly Cape and E. Indian, 
a few tropical American. 
1. E. orientale, Jacq. Ic. Bar. t. 48; D.G. Brod. ii. 10. A shrub 
or tree, 10-30 feet high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves opposite, short- 
petioled, obovate, coriaceous, obtuse, crenate, 2-3 inches long, cuneate 
at the base. Flowers in copious close axillary cymes, shorter than the 
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