Gun i 



MI'I I.I 





i Under I Hr. 1 • ; roposes to i 



11 tin- daeeriptio i 

 a dj i 



\ 

 plmi b tide of '.I i 



:.ir, axillary and terminal, 

 Bon • 



i dentation. i, the '.'• uu 



■ ' ■■ two outer op] 



li .1 Into a pair of « Inj Petals 6, 1 



ii.it. stamens bypi definite, near!] in two rows; ; 



ineiiti Aliform, short; anthers 2-oalled, their oefli lh 



ning :it thi • r.il cleft Dial 0. 



Dvarj conical, i -. ovules 00, ! 



II, twisted, reflexed. Nut leathery, splndli 

 ut the base, and i 1 with thi 



and bj abortion i thin meml 



Embryo without albumen n amygdaloid, piano- 



ry short, In y genus 



which this Order is allied to nothing yet known, it Is 



Ufferent from l>i ; • • with which it is 



ted bvcau e of its tw 



: . be excluded from tl I lion, p. 



! I . 



' ■ I se, rlyperi- 



• R laoeae, Tamaricacese. it most I 



•nt any a 

 Lophira, which is the £ talc of Sierra Leoi 



ads and Gnttifers. Tothi i fruit of the former that of 



Lophira is quite similar. but its orarj I 1, with a ir<>".l of 



upon a free central I aj with the 



radicle downwards, and thi tareplano-i 



of difference from DIpterads, which have an ovary with 3 cells, a 



Inlons OTUles in each, ■ Bead with the radicle u] 

 and crump] ons. Moreover Lophira wants the huge 



stipules of DIpterads. <>n the other hand, its foliage is so like 

 that of CalophyUum, a genus of Gnttifers, that the one might be 

 mistaken for the other, i t the leaves of Lophira an 



but in all the structure of the fruit thi Dm the 



Quttiferous < ir.l.r. Nevertheless, although Lophira is so different 



from DIpterads it Is to 1 bserved that it agrees with that Order 



no in Its peculiar calyx ; for in both cases the ovu 

 anatropal, and consequently the radicle is directed to the hflnm, 

 and in Lophira than ot tendency to produce the long 



anthers which are bo characteristic of Dlpl 

 Guillemin regarded h. tely a Dipterad, beean 



Hvatlon of slit- petals, the li ngth of the - 

 satend mbranons wings .. r out 



proportion I rs, the alternab imlshedwith 



stipules, and the 'lrv corky bark not filled wltl 

 milky secretions."— See fJ - i tibia TtnUmen, p. 110. 







Gl NUB 

 Lophira, Hanks. 



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/ 



X \\ III.— Lophira alata.-J 



■i :; ult : c( .■'. perpendicular section of a fruit. 







