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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



regions of America and Africa, presenting several forms or varieties 

 considered by some authors as sufficiently distinct species ; but this 

 opinion appears on the whole barely admissible. 



Next to Chrysohalamis, come the plants which Aublet named 

 Moquilea} The floral receptacle forms a sac far more rounded at the 

 base than in Chrysohalamis ; but it is also lined by a glandular 

 disk, and on its edges are inserted the perianth and androceum. 

 Certain species, such as 3f. gaianensis^ (figs. 489, 490), have a 

 calyx similar to that of Chrysohalanus, and ten stamens, five superposed 



Licania (Moquilea) (/uianensis. 



Pig. 490. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



to the sepals, five alternate with them.' All are fertile, and consist 

 of a long filament and an introrse two-celled anther. In other 

 species' the number of stamens increases, and may become indefinite. 

 We may rarely find ill-developed petals ;" and still more rarely are 

 there here only from eight to ten stamens." But this number is more 

 frequent in certain species which have been assigned to the genus 

 Caligni} Here too the stamens may be numerous/ but several 



TU83., M. Ant., iv. 91, t. 31.— DC, loc. cit., n. 

 1.— Benth., Niger, 336.— H. Bn., Adansonia, 

 vii. 221. — Hook. P., Mart. Fl. Bras., Rosac, 7. 

 — C elliptieus Sol., ex. Sab., Trans. Hort. Soc. 

 Lond., V. 453. — C. pellocarpus MiQ., Prim. Fl. 

 Essequeb., 193. 



1 AuuL., Otiian., i. 521. — J., Gen., 341. — 

 Lamk., Diet., iv. 272, III., t. 735.— DC, Frodr., 

 ii. 526.— EnuL., Oen., n. 6410 (part.).- H. H., 

 Oen., 606, n. 3. — Balheofiyne and Leplohalanvs 

 (sect. Licanice) Benth., Jlook. Juurn., ii. 212. 



* AUBL., lov. cif., t. 208. 



3 Some exceptionally tetramerous flowers 



have an androceum of only eight stamens. 



"• Especially in those forming the section 

 Fumoquilea (HoOK. P., Mart. Fl. Bras., Rosac, 

 21). 



^ In this same section Fumoquilea. 



* Even with a pentamerous calyx. 



7 Licania Atjbl., Guian., i. 119, t. 45.— .!., 

 Gen., 340.— Lamk., Diet., i. 561 ; Suppl., ii. 31 ; 

 III., t. 122.— DC, Prodr., ii. 527.— Si'ACn, Suit, 

 a Buffon, i. 374.— Endl., Gen.,n. 6409.— B. H., 

 Gen., 606, n. 2.—IIedifcrea Schbeb., Gen., 160. 



^ There may be as many as fifteen in certain 

 species of the section llymenopus (Benth.). 



