yyu NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



On the convex receptacle, passing from below upwards, are inserted 

 a calyx of four free imbricated sepals, as many petals also imbricated' 

 in the bud, and resembling those of the Hose, and an indefinite num- 

 ber of free hypogynous stamens arranged in many rows. Each consists 

 of a slender filament and an introrse two-celled anther," dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Around the summit of the receptacle are inserted on 

 one level the carpels, varying from five to fifteen in number. These 

 cohere below into an elongated many-celled ovary, above which they 

 become free to form tapering styles, stigmatiferous, but hardly, if 

 at all, dilated at the apex. In the internal angle of each cell are 

 inserted an indefinite number of descending auatropous ovules,* in 

 two vertical rows; their micropyles look upwards and outwards. 

 The fruit is a capsule with a coriaceous mesocarp and a woody endo- 

 carp, which divide septicidally into as many divisions as there were 

 cells, each containing one or more compressed imbricated seeds, whose 

 chalazal region is prolonged into a membranous wing. Beneath the 

 integuments is a fleshy albumen of no great thickness surrounding 

 a green embryo, with its radicle superior and with flattened 

 elliptical cotyledons. For a long time only three species of this 

 genus were known. Two of these are natives of Chili ; the 

 one^ has pinnate leaves, quite like those of the Eoses, but they 

 are opposite and persistent, with large interpetiolar stipules at 

 the base. The second species' has, on the contrary, simple leaves, 

 with the stipules not well developed. The third species comes from 

 Australia ;" its leaves are also simple, but with large stipules. All 

 have solitary axillary pedunculate flowers, but towards the summit 

 of the branch, where the leaves are replaced by bracts with a flower' 

 in the axil of each, tlie whole inflorescence becomes a true terminal 

 raceme, with the flowers borne on opposite decussate pedicels, and 

 often very numerous and crowded." 



Hyper., 02.— DC, Prodr., i. 556. — Kndl., Oen., » E. eordifolia Cav., loe. cit. — C. Gay, op. 



n. 6403.— Si'ACH, Suit, a BuJJ'un, v. S-tt, not. — cit., 351. 



H. Hn., Adnnsonia, \. 303. — U. H., Qen., <^ !•:. luclda {E. Dl/lardirri »VAC\l, loe. cit.— 



616, n. 33. — Carpodoutaa Lauill., Vol/., il U\, Hentji., Fl. AMtral., ii. IMl—E. Milli<;,ini 



t. 18; J'l. your.- II oil., ii. 122. — Cliois., op. cit., H.kik. F., Fl. To^n., i. 51, f. S. — CarpuduHt„t 



61. — IK'., lor. cil. liicidd Lahii.l., loc.t'it.). V. MvKU.KK ha« mnile 



' Or more mrdy contorted. known {/Vrt^m., iv. 2).nnothcr Aiwtntrmn «jH>cien, 



' The two (tIIk arc oOen iHindulouH, anil only with pinnutc louvi-s, F. Moorei (liKNTtl., op. cil., 



uttnched alnnc to tlie connoctive. ' 417, t,. '>), 



» Or incomph tc'ly lunphitn.potm. 7 Holow tho nowcr the ikhIu'cI inny bear nlt.-r- 



* F. f/lulinota.—F. piiui,il(f,jlia ('. (Jay. Fl. niitc iinhricate dt-aly briulii. 



r7(f7.,i. 352, t. 8 (1K45). — /■'</.</«* ///tt/i«o*rt I'iki-p. * Wo wero tho ArKt to refer FuciypMa to ihe 



& KnUL., yor. (/in. rt Si,.,\\. M,{. l\)i(lh\iH). I{,,g„cv,r. ItirNTiiAM A J. Udokku huve now 



