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ampullseform, 5-celled, narrowed into the style ; ovules indefinite ; 
stigma capitate, 5-lobed. Fruit large, drupaceous, oblong, 5-lobed. 
Seeds horizontal, obovoid-oblong, black, with a large embryo, with 
amygdaloid cotyledons and very thin albumen. The only species. 
1. B. madagascariensis, Thouars ; Ker , Bot. Beg. t. 730. A 
glabrous shrub, 10-20 ft. high, with terete grey virgate branchlets. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblanceolate-oblong, 4-6 in. long, 
coriaceous, obtuse, reticulato-venose, usually entire. Flowers 6-20 in 
peduncled axillary umbels ; pedicels exceeding the flowers, bractless, 
articulated at the base. Calyx spreading, patellaeform. Petals oblong, 
^ in. deep, twisted in aestivation. Stamens nearly as long as the 
petals ; filaments fleshy ; anthers \ in. long. Fruit oblong-cuspidate, 
£ in. long. Yenana, Lam. III. t. 131. 
Seychelles, not uncommon in Mahe, rare in Praslin, Horne ! Wriglit ! Also 
Madagascar and East Tropical Africa. B. spinosa , Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 872, is a variety 
with toothed, and B. chrysophylla , Sweet, a form with long oblanceolate subentire 
leaves. 
2. WEINMANNIA, Linn. 
Flowers polygamous or hermaphrodite. Calyx minute, cut down 
nearly to the base into 4-5 teeth. Petals the same number, alternate 
with the sepals. Stamens 8-10, perigynous, exserted when fully 
developed ; filaments filiform ; anthers didymous. Ovary sessile, am- 
pullseform, 2-celled ; ovules many ; styles two, filiform, falcate ; stigmas 
capitate. Fruit a dry capsule, soon dehiscing septicidally. — Trees with 
opposite simple or compound coriaceous leaves and abundant small 
racemose flowers. Distrib. All round the world in the tropics, but 
none in continental Africa. Species 50. 
1. W. tinctoria, Smith in Bees' Cyclop. A small much-branched 
tree with terete straight branchlets. Leaves 2-4 in. long ; leaflets 
5-15, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 1-1^ in. long, sessile, inciso-crenate, 
with the rachis broadly winged between them ; stipules broad, short, 
reflexed, truncate or emarginate. Racemes copious, peduncled, axil- 
lary, 2-6 in. long, with a pilose axis and very numerous flowers in dense 
fascicles ; pedicels 3-4 times the flower. Petals oblong, in. long. 
Yalves of the capsule dry, Yt ^ n - long, persistent, tipped with the 
hooked styles. \Y. macrostachya, DC. JProd. iv. 10. W. glabra, Lam. 
111. t. 313, Jig. 1, non Linn.Jil. W. Boiviniana, Tulasne. 
Mauritius, common in the hill forests. Also Bourbon. Arbre Mouche a miel. In 
Bourbon, Tan Rouge. 
3. ROUSSEA, Smith. 
Calyx-tube broadly obconic, short, adnate to the base of the ovary ; 
teeth 5, large, lanceolate, valvate. Petals 5, lanceolate, united near 
the base into a campanulate tube, thick and pilose on the outside, re- 
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