BrunelUa BRUNELLIACEiE 251 



tose beneath, petiolulate, 5-10 cm. 1., 2- 5-4 cm. br. Panicles 6-7 cm. 1. 

 Flowers numerous, yellow, hermaphrodite and female with apparently 

 more or less functionless anthers. Calyx 5-cleft, tomentose, segments 

 2 "5-3 mm. 1. Capsule about 4 mm. 1. Seeds about 1"5 mm. 1. 



Cinchona, J.P. 1271, 1354, Morris\ — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, 



Family XXXVI. CUNONIACE^. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or whorled, stipulate, simple 

 or compound. Flowers small, sometimes polygamous or dioecious. 

 Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many as, and usually not larger than, 

 the sepals. Stamens twice as many as, rarely as many as, the 

 petals, or sometimes more, inserted under the margin of the 

 disk. Carpels usually 2, united into a 2-celled ovary, or 

 distinct ; ovules usually numerous and in two rows on the placenta. 

 Fruit mostly a 2-valved capsule. Seeds several or numerous ; 

 embryo small, in the axis of fleshy endosperm ; cotyledons flat 

 or convex. 



Species 120, natives of temperate and subtropical regions of 

 the southern hemisphere, represented in the northern hemisphere 

 by a few species of Welnmannia. 



WEINMANNIA L. 



Trees and shrubs. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate (rarely 

 simple) ; rhachis often winged. Stipules deciduous. Flowers 

 small, white, in clusters (in the Jamaican species), arranged in 

 erect terminal and axillary racemes, hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 dioecious. Sepals 4 (rarely 5), imbricate, persistent. Petals 

 inserted under the margin of a perigynous lobed disk, imbricate, 

 caducous. Stamens 8 (rarely 10) ; filaments exserted, with small 

 anthers. Ovary free, 2-celled, 2-beaked ; styles 2, persistent, 

 with simple stigmas ; ovules few or many in the cells, in two 

 rows, inserted on the margins of the inflexed carpels. Capsule 

 small, 2-celled, septicidally 2-valved. 



Species 70, natives of the West Indies, of tropical and 

 temperate S. America, Australia, New Zealand, Malaya, Mada- 

 gascar and Polynesia. 



W. pinnata L. SysL ed. 10, 1005 (1759); Griseh. Fl. Br. W. 

 Ind. 303 ; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 258 ; Britton in N. Amer. Fl. xxii. 

 pt. 2, 179. W. hirta Sw. Prodr. 63 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 691 ; 

 Griseh. loc. cit. ; Engl, in Fl. Bras, xiv.pt. 2, 163, t. 38,/. 19-21 

 k t. 40,/. 4. W. alpestris Marf. Jam. ii. 183 [1850]. Wind- 

 mannia fruticosa &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 212. (Fig. 107.) 

 Specimens of Swartz's W. hirta are in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



