FLACOURTIANE. 
5 STIGMARÒTA. 
Stamens as in Rotimea. Style crowned by 
6 radiant stigmas. 
Trise III. 
Kiccerarie £. Flowers dioecious from abortion (f. 57. a.b.) 
Petals 5. Fruit baccate, at length dehiscent. 
6 Kiccera‘ria. Petals 5, bearing 3 glands at the claw (f. 57.) 
7 Meticy'tus. Petals 5, glandless. Stigmas 4-5, radiant. 
8 Hypnoca’rpus. Petals 5, furnished each with a scale at 
the base. 
Tripe IV. 
ERYTHROSPE'RMEÆ. Flowers hermaphrodite. Petals and sta- 
mens 5-7. Fruit baccate, indehiscent. 
9 Eryrurosre’Rmum. Calyx of 4 sepals, about equal in 
length with the petals. 
Tribe I. 
PATRISIE’E (plants agreeing with Patrisia in some im- 
portant characters), D.C. prod.1. p. 255. Flowers herma- 
phrodite, apetalous. Sepals 5, coloured on the inside, permanent. 
Stamens indefinite. Fruit capsular or baccate. Perhaps refer- 
able to some genera in Passifloree near Smeathmdnnia ? but the 
seeds are smooth, not as in Passifloree, scrobiculate, wholly 
fixed to the disk, not fixed longitudinally to the nerves of the 
valves as in that order. 
I. RYANÆ'A (named by Vahl after John Ryan, who col- 
lected and sent to him many plants from Guiana and Cayenne). 
D.C. prod. 1. p.254. Ryania, Vahl. ecl. 1. p. 51. t.9. Patrì- 
sia, Rich, act. soc. par. p. 111. 
Lin. syst. Polyandria, Monogynia. Urceolus petaloid, si- 
tuated between the stamens and the pistil. Fruit baccate, inde- 
hiscent. Branching shrubs with simple leaves. The name is a 
little changed to prevent its being confounded with Riana. 
1 R.sprcio'sa (Vahl. 1. c.) leaves green on both surfaces, 
under surface bearing stellate hairs on the ribs; peduncles 1- 
flowered. h.S. Native of the island of Trinidad and in 
Cayenne in mountain woods. Patrìsia pyrifera, Rich. 1. c. Pers. 
ench. 2. p. 69. Flowers large, somewhat cream-coloured. 
Sheny Ryanea. FI. July, Sept. Clt. 1823. Shrub 10 feet. 
Cult. This beautiful and singular shrub deserves a place in 
every stove. It will thrive well in vegetable mould mixed with 
alittle sand; and ripened cuttings will strike freely if planted in 
heer of sand, which should be plunged ina gentle heat, under a 
and or bell-glass. 
_ IL PATRISIA (— Patris, 
in Cayenne), 
l. p. 255, . 
Lin. sysr. Polyándria, Tri-Pentagýnia. Urceolus none. 
rut capsular, dehiscent, suberose or papery, 3-5-valved. 
und P. BrcoLor (D. C. prod. 1. p. 256.) leaves white on the 
7 er surface from very fine tomentum; peduncles many-flow- 
c fc. k.S. Native of Cayenne and Trinidad. Flowers large, 
ream-coloured. 
T: n0-coloured-leaved Patrisia. 
who collected numerous plants 
H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 5. p. 356. D.C. prod. 
Shrub 8 feet. 
the un, PARVIFLORA (D. C. prod. 1. p. 256.) leaves villous on 
under surface without ribs ; peduncles I-flowered. R.S. 
"one of Cayenne. Flowers whitish. 
P Powered Patrisia. Shrub 12 feet. 
glabrou DENTA TA (H. B. et Kunth, nov. spec. 5. p.-357.) leaves 
puberul, on the ribs, on the under surface, and with the veins 
some bat i flowers axillary, 1-2, on short pedicels; branchlets 
what flexuous. h. &. Native of sandy shady places 
ć 
I.. RYANÆA. 
II. Patrista. III. FLACOURTIA. 291 
between Atures and Maypures on the Orinoco river. Flowers 
whitish. 
Toothed-leaved Patrisia. Tree 30 feet. 
4 P. arrrnis (H. B. et Kunth, l. c.) leaves glabrous, with the 
nerve and veins on the under surface rather hairy, ovate, acumi- 
nated, obsoletely denticulated ; flowers 1-2, axillary on short 
pedicels ; branchlets somewhat erect. h.S. Native on rocks 
near Carichana on the river Orinoco. Flowers whitish. Root 
poisonous. 
Allied Patrisia. Tree 20 feet. 
Cult. The species of Patrisia require to be grown in a mix- 
ture of loam and vegetable mould, and ripened cuttings will root 
freely if planted in a pot of sand, and a handeglass placed over 
them, plunged in heat. 
Tribe II. 
FLACOURTIE'& (shrubs agreeing with Flacotrtia in many 
important characters). D.C. prod. 1. p. 256. Flowers dioe- 
cious from abortion (f, 55. a.b. f. 56. a. d.), petalless (f. 55. a. 
f.56. b.). Stamens indefinite (f. 55. a.). Fruit baccate, inde- 
hiscent (f. 55. c. f. 56. d.). . 
II. FLACOU’RTIA (in honour of Etienne de Flacourt, a 
Director of the French East India Company, and the commander 
of an expedition to Madagascar in 1648, of which he afterwards 
wrote an account, which contained considerable details upon the 
botany of that country). Lher. stirp. 59. t. 30. D. C. prod. 1. 
. 256. 
P Lin. syst. Diœcia, Polyándria. Male flowers. Stamens 
densely crowded upon the hemispherical receptacle (f. 55.a.), 
glandless at the base. Female flowers. Calyx 4-5-cleft, (f. 55. b.) 
deciduous. Stigmas 4-9 (f. 55. 6.), furnished each with one 
longitudinal furrow above. Seeds bony. Shrubs thorny. The 
sepals are whitish and the stamens and anthers are yellow. 
1 F. Ramo’nrcut (Lher. 1. c. Lam. ill. t. 826.) leaves roundish- 
ovate, acute, crenated. h.S. Native of Madagascar, where it 
is called Ramontchi. Alamotou, Flac. mad. 124. Flowers 
yellowish or cream-coloured. The fruitis of the size and shape 
of a small plum, red when ripe, but at length becoming violet- 
coloured with a transparent red flesh. The natives eat the 
fruit; they are sweet, but leave a sharpness in the mouth. 
An island on the coast of Madagascar is covered with these 
trees, and because they resemble the European plum-tree, the 
sailors have named the island Jsle aux Prunes, or Plum-tree Island. 
Clt. 1775. Sh. 8 feet. 
Ramontchi Flacourtia. FI). Ju. Jul. 
2 F. sa’prpa (Roxb. cor. 1. p. 
49.t.69.) leaves elliptic, repandly- 
serrated, bluntish at both extremi- ` 
ties. h.S. Native of the East In- 
dies on mountains. Flowers yellow. 
Fruit red, the sizeof a common cur- 
rant; they are eaten by the inhabit- 
ants, and are very palatable. The 
tree is called Pedda Canren by 
the Telingas. (f. 55.) 
Sapid Flacourtia. Fl. Clt. 1800. 
Tree 12 feet. 
3 F. 1ne’rmtis (Roxb. cor. 3. t. 
222.) an unarmed tree; leaves el- 
liptic, crenately-serrated, shining ; 
racemes axillary, short; flowers 
hermaphrodite; style 5-cleft. h. 
S. Native of the Molucca islands. 
Stamens 20-30. Berries reddish-purple, of a pleasant acid taste, 
for which the tree is cultivated extensively in the Moluccas. 
Unarmed Flacourtia. Fl. Feb. Nov. Clt. 1814. Tree 30 ft. 
4 F. septa‘rta (Roxb. cor. 1. p. 48. t. 68.) leaves obovate- 
Pp 2 l 
