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NATUItAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes triquetrous with the edges (especially the two lateral ones) 

 prolonged into thin wings. However, these wings may be thickened 

 and project but little as in a species from New Caledonia that we 

 have hence named 0. ohiusata^ which thus affords a transition 

 between the typical JluheUm and the Javanese Oa\i/imfra.s. Besides, 

 in Richella there may be more than two ovules in each cai-pel, for we 

 have seen specimens whose pyriform berries contained three or 

 four seeds- when ripe (fig. 284).' 



The smaller flowers of Mitrephora' are of the same general 

 structure. But they are easily distinguished by a very striking 



Usymllm {Richella) Grayatia. 



Fig. 284. 

 Four- seeded berry. 



Fio. 286. 

 Longitudinal sotrtion of seid. 



character, though one of little importance in itself: the tapering 

 basilar part of the petals is very long ; so that three very long and 

 slender pillars support the vault that they form high above the 



' Adansonia, viii. 178. 



' Hence we have been unable to retain the 

 apccific name of monosperma, for which we have 

 had to Biilwlitute Hint of (irayana, 



•* We liavL- not buuii able to observe, and only 

 know by dcHcription, a genus which uppcnrH very 

 nearly allied to Oxymitra and Ooninlhalauuis, 

 and that has bten niiined Atnitnyia (Meddomk, 

 Madr. Juurn. JAIL Sc. sor. '.), "i. :)7, tii,'. 1, ex 

 B. H., Grii., \i')7, n. 22 a). Its calyx consists of 

 four (?) small Kfj)als, and its corolla of six valvate 

 coriaceous iMftiils. The three outer are oval 

 ucumiiiate, an<l cohere around the sexual organs. 

 The indefinite stamens are hurmouiitod hy an ob- 

 tusely acuminate ]iroji'ction of the CDnmrtive. 

 The subglobuhir recf|itacle also supjMirls mi iu- 

 dednitc nmiiher of curials with uniovtiliilf ovarit> 



(ovules erect) surmounted by an elongated style 

 tapering into a two-branched terminul stigma. 

 It is a small tree from Peninsular India, with 

 the leaves glabrous, acuminate, and the flowers 

 either solitary axillary, or springing from nodcM 

 which have lost their leaves. The whole 

 surface of the outer jK'tals and the outer faces of 

 the ijiner ones are covered with haii-s. 



■• Hl.. FI. Jar., Anonnc, 13, 1. 10, 11. 12. U, 

 C, I), (sect. Ucariii). -Kvm.., Gen., n. 1717 a 

 ( rrarirt).— Miy., /•'/. Intl.- Rat., i. y. ii. ai» ; Ahh. 

 Mu». Luqd. Jiat., ii. 27.— H. H.. (Vr;i.. 2(1, 957, 

 „. 2:i.— H. Hn., Athinxotiiu, viii. 32'J, 312.— 

 /'.sriuliivaria Mig., ^7. Ind.-Hal., i. p. ii. 32.— 

 Orophiia Mig., Aint. Miia. LuyJ. J9u/., ii. 22, ex 

 j»art. (nee Ml.). 



