414 



NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



VIII. COCOA-PLUM SEEIES. 



a. GyncBceum central. 



The Cocoa-plums' {Yx.,Icaqmers — figs. 486-488) have hermaphro- 

 dite regular flowers. The receptacle forms a hollow inverted cone 

 lined by a glandular disk. In the bottom of the cone is inserted 

 the gynseceum, while its edges bear the androceum and perianth. 



Chrysohalanus Icaco. 



Fig, 486. 

 Habit (I). 



The calyx consists of five free sepals quincuncially imbricated in the 

 bud. The alternating petals are also imbricated in the bud, longer 

 than the sepals, and caducous. The androceum consists of from 

 fifteen to fifty stamens, arranged in whorls as in the Plums,^ and 



^ CJirysohalanus L., Gen., n. 621. — J., Qen., 

 440. — Lamk., Diet., iii. 224; Suppl., iii. 135; 



m., t. 428.— TuRP., 

 DC. ,Prodr., ii. 525.- 



Diet. Sc. Nat., t. 236.- 

 -Spach, Suit, a Btiffon, 



369.— Endl., Qen., n. 6407.— B. H., Gen., 606, 

 n. 1 . — Icaco Plum., Gen., 43, t. 5. 



^ It is impossible to make out this arrangement 

 in tlie adnlt flowors with very numerous stamens 



