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distinct Filaments, inserted into the same disk. Ger- 

 men simple. Styles 1 or 3. Stigmas 1, 2, or 3. Fruit 

 fleshy, or capsular, of 1, 2, or 3, cells, or as many 

 prominent lobes, each cell or lobe containing one 

 Seed, attached to it's inner angle. Albumen none. 

 Radicle incurved, upon the, often incurved, Cotyle- 

 dons. Stem arboreous, or shrubby, rarely herbaceous. 

 Leaves alternate." 



Sect. 1. Petals double. Cardiospermum, Paullinia, 

 Sapi/idus, Talisia Aubl. and Aporetica Forst. 



Sect. 2. Petals simple. Schmidelia and Ornitrophe 

 Commers. both perhaps one genus with Aporetica; 

 Euphoria (Dimocarpus Willden. Sp. PI. v. 2. 346), 

 Melicocca, Toulicia Aubl. (Poncea Schreb. Gen. 266), 

 Trigonis Jacq.with Molincea and Cossignia Commers. 

 compose this section. Many of them require exami- 

 nation, and some are perhaps not distinct from Cu- 

 pania, which not being hitherto well understood, is 

 placed, with Matayba, Enourea and Pekea of Aublet, 

 very different from it and from each other, in a doubt- 

 ful Section at the end. 



Orel 66. Ac era. " Calyx of 1 leaf. Petals de- 

 finite, rarely wanting, inserted around a hypogynous 

 disk. Stamens inserted into the middle of the same 

 disk, definite, but often not agreeing with the Petals 

 in number. Germen simple, standing on the disk. 

 Style and Stigma single, rarely 2. Pericarp of 2 or 3 

 cells or capsules. Seeds either solitary, or at most 

 3, in each, attached to the inner angle, some of them 



