470 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



(rarely more), fertile unilateral, the rest antherless short glandular 

 tooth-like, connate with base of fertile into a short ring around throat ; 

 fertile connate to a variable height, circinate in sestivation ; anthers 

 introrse rimose. Gynaeceum (of Clirpohalanus) very excentric, in- 

 serted on one side of mouth of receptacle ; ovary 1-celled, 2-ovulate ; 

 style slender elongated, circinate in aestivation. Berry or drupe 

 1 -seeded; seed suberect; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick 

 plano-convex, or folded " one embracing the other" {Thelira), — Trees 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate simple ; stipules lateral often glandular ; 

 flowers racemose or cymoso-racemose ; racemes simple or compound ; 

 bracts often glandular. [Tropical and suhtropical America, Madagas- 

 car) See p. 4:20. 



62. Couepia Aubl. — Flowers hermaphrodite (of HirtcUa). Petals 

 5 or 0. Stamens 15-qo , arranged in a complete or incomplete ring; 

 filaments united to a variable height, (xynasceum of Hirtella. Drupe 

 of very variable form ; mesocarp fleshy or coriaceous ; putamen 

 woody i -seeded. Seed ai Hirtella. — Trees or shrubs; leaves alter- 

 nate coriaceous ; petiolate often 2-glandular at apex ; stipules deci- 

 duous ; flowers racemose or cymoso-racemose, axillary or terminal, 

 bracteolate. {Tropical and subtropical America) See p. 423. 



G3. Parinari Aubl. — Flowers hermaphrodite (of Couepia) ; recep- 

 tacle slightly or deeply excavated on one side. Sepals 5, or more 

 rarely 4. Stamens 10-co , all fertile or some antherless, forming a 

 complete ring or united into a one-sided bundle. Gyna3ceum of 

 Hirtella; carpel 1, more rarely 2 ; ovary completely or incompletely 

 2-locellate, through a spurious dissepiment projecting to a variable 

 extent between the two ovules. Drupe of variable form ; mesocarp 

 fleshy or fibrous ; putamen bony, smooth or rugose, usually 2-celled ; 

 cells 1-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous. — Trees; leaves alternate per- 

 sistent, with or without glands at base; stipules lateral; flowers 

 cymoso-corymbose or racemose bracteolate. {Trojjical America and 

 Africa, Madagascar, Indian Archipelago, northern Australia, Islands 

 of the Pacific.) See p. 424. 



G4? Trichocarya Miq.— -" Ileceptacle hypocrateriform ; tube 

 cylindrical angular entirely adherent to swollen gynophore ; sepals 5, 

 3-angular. Petals shorter than calyx ovate, Stamens 25 (?), forming 



