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in common. All are shrubs or small trees, with persistent, 

 alternate, petiolate, exstipulate, glabrous leaves, covered with 

 pellucid dots, and more or less aromatic. The flowers are pedun- 

 culate and terminal in the American species with dilated filaments 

 {Cynihosfemon^), but buds, at first lateral with respect to them, and 

 originally axillary to the leaves or bracts below them, may in time 

 receive a great development and elongate into branches which push 

 aside the peduncles, making them appear axillary. /. anisatiim and 

 the species analogous to it {EmlUciiuii), on the contrary, have their 

 flowers axillary from the commencement." 



When we know lUiciiim, it is very easy to obtain an exact idea 



Drimt/s Winteri. 



Fig. 200. 

 Floriferous branch. 



of the structure of Brimp^ which may be considered as lU'ich 



See fig. 191 and Adansonia, vii. 361. The 

 floral peduncle of I. parviflornm is the continua- 

 tion of a branch ; beneath the flower it bears one 

 or several bracts, some eclielonned on the peduncle, 

 the others close together below the flower. 



^ See Adansonia, viii. 13. Hence, for these 

 species alone can we admit what Bentham & 

 HoOKEE say (^Loc. cit.) of the inflorescence of 

 IlUciuni : " Pedunculi l-flori, revera axillares. 



sedfoliis non evolutis intra gemmam tenninahm 

 fasciculati." 



^ FoBSTEB, Char. Gen., 84, t. 42.— Jpss., Oen., 

 280, 451.— Lamk., Diet., ii. 830 ; Suppl, ii. 526 ; 

 111., t. 494.— DC. Prodr., i. 78.— Spach, Suit, a 

 Buffon, vii. 43G. — Endl., Oen., n. 4742. — iliEES, 

 Contrib., i. 132.— B. H., Gen., 17, n. 1.— H. Bn., 

 Adansonia, vii. 8, 67. — Vinterana Soi,., Med. 

 Ohs., V. 46. — Wintera Muke., Syst., 507.— 



