A Flowering branch. B Flower cut lengthwise. C Group of fruits. D Fruit cut lengthwise. E Fruit cut across.
5. Staminodes usually absent in the female flowers. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules, or 4-6-celled with one ovule in each cell. Calyx not enlarged after flowering. Fruit fleshy. Stamens 10-30.—Species 35. Central and South Africa. Some species yield timber or edible fruits. Euclea L.
Staminodes usually present in the female flowers. Ovary 4-16-, usually
8-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Calyx most frequently enlarged after flowering. Stamens usually 16.—Species 75. Tropical and
South-east Africa. They yield timber (ebony), tanning and dyeing materials, mucilage, edible fruits (date-plums), fish-poison, and medicaments.
(Including Thespesocarpus Pierre). Diospyros Dalech.
[FAMILY 196.] STYRACACEAE
Trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, without stipules. Flowers solitary or in pairs in the leaf-axils, clothed with stellate hairs, hermaphrodite. Calyx closed in the bud, splitting subsequently into 2 or 3 segments. Petals 5, free, fleshy, whitish-yellow. Stamens 10, free. Anthers basifixed, pointed, opening by 2 longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 1-celled. Ovules 6, basal, inverted. Style simple. Fruit dry, indehiscent. Seed 1, with a crusty-woody testa and a copious, horny albumen. Embryo axile, large, straight, with a short radicle and thin cotyledons.
Genus 1, species 1. Equatorial West Africa (Cameroons). Afrostyrax Perkins & Gilg
ORDER CONTORTAE
SUBORDER OLEINEAE
[FAMILY 197.] OLEACEAE
Shrubs or trees, rarely undershrubs. Leaves exstipulate, usually opposite. Flowers regular. Stamens 2, alternating with the carpels, rarely 3-4, inserted on the corolla, if the latter is present. Disc none. Ovary superior, rarely (Fraxinus) naked, 2-celled, rarely 3-4-celled. Ovules 1-4, usually 2, in each cell, inverted. Style simple; stigmas 1-2. Seeds with a straight embryo.—Genera 11, species 120. (Including JASMINEAE.) (Plate 126.)