98 FLORA OF BRAZIL. 
filiformia, libera, æqualia : antheræ introrse, subglobose, bilo- 
culares, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. ^ Ovarium 
sessile, liberum, uniloculare. Ovula in placentis parietalibus 
tribus circiter viginti, anatropa. Stylus terminalis, cylin- 
dricus : stigma brevideime trilobum. Capsula stylo indurato 
superata, anbgtobess; adpresso-pilosa, unilocularis, trivalvis, 
valvis medio placentam nerviformem gerentibus. Semina 
3-6, subglobosa, angulata, epidermide membranacea, testa 
crustacea. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus; 
cotyledones breves, semiteretes; radicula tereti, brevissima, 
umbilico proxima.—Frutex in Brasilie montibus crescens, 
Weinmanniæ facie ; ramis dichotomis ; foliis oppositis (estipu- 
latis) petiolatis, oblongis, penninerviis, serratis ; racemis termi- — 
nalibus, elongatis, multifloris ; floribus parvis. 
5723.* R. Americana. 
Has. Organ Mountains, at an elevation of nearly 7,000 
feet above the level of the sea. FI. March. ; 
Frutex 3-4-pedalis, dichotomo-ramosus.  Ramuli teretes, - 
glabriusculi, vel apice pilosi, cicatricibus’ foliorum exasperatl, - 
vetuli cortice cinereo vestiti, novelli rubelli. Folia ad apices - 
ramulorum approximata, petiolata, opposita, 2-24-poll. longa, - 
8-10-lin. lata, oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, utrinque ‘atte- 
nuata, penninervia, serrata, serraturis incurvis obtusis, suprà 
viridia, glabra, nervo medio pilosiuscula, subtus pallidiora, 
nervosa, nervis prominentibus pilosis; petioli teretes, pilosi, 
6 lin. circiter longi. Racemi terminales, villosi, multiflori, | 
sub-4 poll. longi. Pedicelli villosi,* 2 lin. circiter longi. i 
Cetera ut in Char. Gen. " 
the placentation and the number of carpels ; but in other groups belonging 
to the same Order (or sub-class) of Sazifragace, there are genera with - 
more than two elementary carpels, one with incomplete dissepiments ; ; and 
even in Belangera, although the semi-dissepiments meet in the centre, they 
do not cohere, and the placentation is therefore, strictly speaking, 3 
I should, upon the whole, be disposed to consider Raleighia as forming + 
with Belangera a distinct sub-tribe of the tribe (or order) Cunoniacet.— ^ 
G. Bentham. ; 
*The numbers refer to my Seinen Catalogue of Brazilian Plants —G.6: | 
