Gymnanthes. 8 1 



Qussonia cuneata Klotzsch in Schomb. Versuch Fauna Flora Brit. Guyana III. 

 (1848) H85 (nomen). — Specimen originale (Schomburgk n. 4600!) flores (J^ valde 

 juveniles tantum praebet et vix rite examinandum est; verisimiliter non ad Hippomaneas 

 pertinet. 



Gussonia disoolor Spreng. Neue Entdeck. II. (182<) H9 = Sebastiania dis- 

 color (Spreng.) Müll. Arg. 



Qussonia grandifolia Klotzsch in Schomb. Versuch Fauna Flora Brit. Guyana 

 III. (18 4 8) H85 (nomen). 



Qussonia serrulata Miq. in Linnaea XIX. (1847) 446 = Sebastiania Qaudi- 

 chaudii Müll. Arg. 



Nomina non ad Actinostemonem pertinentia. 



Qussonea aphylla A. Rieh, in Mem. Soc. hist. Nat. Paris IV. (1828) 65 est 

 Orchidacea. 



Qussonea cornuta Ridl. in Journ. Bot. XXIII. (1885) 310 est Orchidacea. 



Qussonea cyperoides J. et C. Presl, Reliq. Haenk. I. (1828) 183 t. 33 = 

 Fimbristylis cyperoides R. Br. 



Qussonea exilis Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. (1885) 493 est Orchidacea. 



Qussonea Qilpinae Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. (1885) 491 est Orchidacea. 



Qussonea globulosa Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. (1885) 491 esX Orchidacea. 



Qussonea pauciflora Brongn. Voy. Coq. Bot. (1829) t. "M = Fimbristylis 

 pauciflora R. Br. 



Qussonea physophora Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI, (1885) 492 est Or- 

 chidacea. 



Äctinostemma GrifT. Acount Bot. Coli. Cantor (183T) 24 t. 3 est genus Cu- 

 curbitacearum. 



Qussonia Spreng. Gen. II. (1831) 664 = Mystacidium, genus Orchidacearwn. 



Qussonia D. Dietr. Synops. pl. II. (1840) 925 = Gussonia, genus Araliacearum. 



8. Gymnanthes Swartz. 



Gymnanthes*) Swartz, Prodr. (1788) 95; Müll. Arg. in Linnaea XXXIL (1863)96 

 ex parte; Benth. in Benth. et' Hook. f. Gen, III. (1880) 337; Pax in Engler u. Prantl, 

 Pnzfam. IIL 5. (1890) 101. — Gymnanthus EndL Gen. Suppl. V. (1850) 87. — Ex- 

 coecaria Sect. Gymnanthes Endl. Gen. II. (1836 — 18 40) 1109. — Excoecaria Sect. 

 Gymnanthes, Hypaspidia et Adenaspidia Griseb. Fl, Brit, Westind. Isl. (186 4) 50. — 

 Sebastiania Sect, Qussonia Subsect, Sarothrostachys Müll, Arg, in DG, Prodr. XV, 2, 

 (1866) 1175 ex parte. — Sebastiania Sect, Gussonia Subsect, Eugussonia Müll. Arg. 

 1. c. 1182 ex parte. — Sebastiania Sect. Eusebastiania Subsect, Stenogitssonia Müll, 

 Arg, 1, c, 1189 ex parte, — Sapium Sect, Gymnanthes 0. Ktze, et Post, Lexicon 

 (1904) 498. 



Flores monoici vel rarius dioici, apetali, Discus nullus, Floris (^ calyx sup- 

 pressus vel rudimentarie evolutus, saepe tantum sepala 1 — 2, antica, minuta, Sta- 

 mina 2 — 6, saepe 3; filamenta libera vel basi tantum connata. Ovarii rudimentum 

 nullum. Flos Q omnino nudus vel sepala 2 — 3, parva, Ovarium intra calycem sessile 

 vel gynophoro stipitatum, 3-loculare; Styli libei'i vel basi tantum vix connati, indivisi, 

 recurvi; ovula in loculis solitaria, Capsula tridyma, in coccos 2-valves dissiliens, laevis; 

 columella centralis persistens, Semina subglobosa, carunculata; testa crustacea; albumen 

 carnosum; cotyledones latae, planae, — Arbores vel frutices, glabri, Folia alterna, 

 breviter petiolata, coriacea vel subcoriacea, penninervia, integra vel margine distanter 

 glanduloso-denticulata, bistipulata, Spicae terminales vel axillares, glabrae vel glabrescentes, 

 solitariae vel fasciculatae, saepe bisexuales; flores (^ in axillis bractearum, saepissime 



*) yvixvös = nudus, üv&og = flos, Nomen datum propter perianthium valde reductum 

 vel nullum, 



A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich. IV. (Embryophyta siphonogama). 147. V. g 



