64 ks J BYTTNERIACER. | GUAZUMA. 
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IL KLEINHOVIA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. f.784; Gertn. fr. t. 187. 
Petals 5, the one, at the opposite side from the curvature of the stamens, 
much broader than the others. Column of stamens declinate, pentadelphous 
at the apex, each bundle opposite to a petal and bearing on the outside three 
anthers. Style one. Stigma slightly crenated. Capsule inflated, turbinate, . 
5-angled, 5-celled, 5-seeded. The other characters as in the tribe. 
238. (1) K. Hospita (Linn.:)—2D C. Prod. 1. p. 488; Spr. syst. 3. p. 835 
Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1435 ; Wall.! L. n. 1152; Wight! cat. n. 232.— 
Rumph. Amb. 3..t. 113. 
TRIBE IIIL.—BYTTNERIE/E. DC. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx 5-partite or 5-sepaled, without an involucel. Petals 
frequently concave and vaulted at the base, expanded at the apex into a stra) 
shaped appendage, Stamens 10-30, or more ; the five that are opposite to the sep: 4 
sterile and strap-shaped ; the others, opposite to the petals, either solitary or penta- 
delphous, the bundles rarely bearing only 1 anther. Ovarium sessile, 5-celled ; ce 
usually 2-ovuled. Seeds sometimes exalbuminose with thick cotyledons; sometimes 
albuminose with foliaceous, plane, or convolute cotyledons.—Trees, shrubs, or very, 
‘rarely herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate, entire, or sometimes cut. Stipi 
twin. Peduncles axillary, opposite to the leaves, and terminal, l- or many-flowered. 
IV. THEOBROMA. Juss. 
Calyx 5-sepaled. Petals 5, vaulted at the base, ligulate and strap-shaped 
above. Stamens 15, connected into an urceolus at the base ; sterile filaments 
: 5, alternate with the petals, linear-subulate, elongated ; fertile ones short, 
united into 5 filaments, each opposite to a petal and bearing two anthers. 
Style 5-cleft at the apex: stigmas simple. Fruit indehiscent, between coria- 
ceous and woody, ovate-oblong, 5-celled. Seeds imbedded in a buttery 
pulp. Albumen none. Cotyledons thick, wrinkled, full of oil—Small trees. 
Leaves large, entire. Peduncles axillary, lateral after the fall of the leaves; 
sometimes simple 1-flowered and fascicled, sometimes branched and many- 
flowered. i: 
š * 239. (1) T. Cacao (Linn. :) leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminated, quite en- 
tire, glabrous; the midrib pubescent on the upper side: fruit oblong, obtuso — 
with 10 elevated wrinkled ribs.—DC. prod. 1. p. 484; Spr. syst. 3. p- 3345 
ME Tm n. 238.— Cacao sativa, Lam. ill. t. 6385.—C. minus, Gert. fr. 
V. GUAZUMA. Plum.; Juss.; Lam. ill. t. 637. 
Calyx 5-sepaled, deciduous, the sepals sometimes united two or three t0- 
gether. Petals 5, concave below, linear-ligulate and deeply bifid at the apex. — 
Stamens very slightly connected at the base: sterile ones 5, lanceolate: — 
fertile ones united into five trifid filaments, each opposite to a petal, a 
bearing three anthers. Styles 5, connivent. Stigmas simple. Fruit indehis- 
cent, woody, externally muricated with club-shaped variously-connect Pom 
tubercles, 5-celled, polyspermous. Seeds ovate-roundish. Albumen very - 
thin, fleshy. Cotyledons plaited.— Trees with stellate pubescence. Leaves 
entire. Peduncles axillary and terminal, somewhat dichotomously branched, — 
many-flowered. ; oe E 
240. (1) G. tomentosa (H. B. K.:) leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, C0- 
date and unequal at the base, toothed ; upper side stellately-puberulous, W= 
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