[FAMILY 157.] WINTERANACEAE
Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved, gland-dotted, without stipules. Flowers solitary or in cymes, axillary, hermaphrodite. Sepals 3, imbricate in bud. Petals 4-10, free or united below, imbricate in bud. Stamens 7-18, hypogynous. Filaments wholly united. Anthers opening outwards by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 1-celled, with 3-5 parietal placentas. Ovules inverted. Style simple, short. Fruit a berry. Seeds with a minute embryo and copious albumen.—Genera 2, species 4. Tropics. (CANELLACEAE.)
Petals 4-6, united beyond the middle. Anthers 7-9, two-celled, or 14-18,
1-celled. Placentas 3-4. Stigma 1. Flowers solitary.—Species 2.
Madagascar. Used medicinally. [Tribe CINNAMOSMEAE.] Cinnamosma Baill.
Petals 10, free. Anthers 10. Placentas 5. Stigmas 5. Flowers cymose.—Species
2. East Africa. Yielding an aromatic oil. [Tribe CINNAMODENDREAE.] Warburgia Engl.
[FAMILY 158.] VIOLACEAE
Leaves simple. Flowers bracteolate, more or less irregular. Sepals 5, free or united at the base, with open or imbricate aestivation. Petals 5, free, hypogynous or nearly so, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, alternating with
VIOLACEAE.
FLOW. PL. AFR.
Pl. 103.
J. Fleischmann del.