Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, exstipulate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, free or nearly so. Petals 5, free or united below. Stamens 5, hypogynous. Disc none. Ovary superior, sessile or short-stalked, 1-celled or incompletely 2-5-celled. Style simple; stigma entire or lobed. Ovules numerous, ascending or horizontal, inverted, with a single coat. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds with a hard albumen and a small embryo situated near the hilum. (Under _SAXIFRAGACEAE_.) (Plate 61.) Genus 1, species 35. Tropical and South Africa and Canary Islands. Some are used as ornamental plants. =Pittosporum= Banks FAMILY 98. CUNONIACEAE Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or whorled, stipulate. Flowers in spike-, raceme-, or panicle-like inflorescences, hermaphrodite. Sepals 4-5, free or united at the base. Petals 4-5. Stamens 8-10, inserted beneath the disc. Ovary superior, 2-3-celled; ovules 2 or more to each cell. Styles 2-3, free. Fruit capsular. Seeds albuminous.--Genera 3, species 17. South Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. (Under =SAXIFRAGACEAE=.) (Plate 62.) 1. Calyx valvate in bud. Petals 3-cleft or 3-toothed, shorter than the calyx. Disc perigynous, deeply 4-5-lobed. Connective acuminate. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. Trees. Leaves of 3 leaflets. Stipules free. Flowers in panicles.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Platylophus= Don Calyx imbricate in bud. Disc 8-10-lobed. Stipules united in pairs. Flowers in clusters arranged in spikes or racemes. 2 2. Disc perigynous, adnate to the base of the ovary. Stamens 10. Ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules. Seeds compressed, with a narrow wing. Leaves compound, with 3 or more leaflets.--Species 1. South Africa. Yields timber. =Cunonia= L. Disc hypogynous, free from the ovary. Seeds hairy.--Species 15. Madagascar and the neighbouring islands. Some species yield timber, tans, dyes, and medicaments. (Plate 62.) =Weinmannia= L. FAMILY 99. MYROTHAMNACEAE Balsamiferous shrubs. Leaves opposite, folded fan-like, undivided, stipulate. Flowers in spikes, dioecious, without a perianth. Stamens 3-8; connective produced into a point; anthers attached at the base, opening by lateral slits; pollen-grains cohering in groups of four. Ovary lobed, 3-4-celled. Ovules numerous, inverted. Styles 3-4, free, short and thick, with broadened stigmas. Fruit capsular or separating into 2-4 nutlets. Seeds with copious albumen. (Under _HAMAMELIDEAE_ or _SAXIFRAGACEAE_.) Genus 1, species 2. Tropical and South Africa. The resin is used as a fumigant and in medicine. (Including _Myosurandra_ Baill.) =Myrothamnus= Welw. FAMILY 100. BRUNIACEAE