ROSACEA. 



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The ^ower of Fi/p/iiwiia^ is hermaphrodite, with a cup-shaped recep- 

 tacle, hearing on its edges four or five unequal sepals, and perhaps, 

 too, a perigynous corolla.- The stamens have the same insertion, and 

 are as numerous as the sepals and superposed to them. Their fila- 

 ments are hroad at the hase, where they cohere in a variable manner,^ 

 but are free above and taper to a point. ^ The gynseceum is very 

 much like that of Eucryphia, inserted in the bottom of the receptacle. 

 It consists of an ovary with three uniovulate cells, surmounted by a 

 filiform persistent style bearded below. The fruit is a capsule sur- 

 mounted by the remains of the style, and accompanied at the base 

 by the receptacle and the reflexed sepals. It has a pretty thick 

 mesocarp ; this separates from the woody endocarp which is septici- 

 dal, with its clefts prolonged into the style. Each stone then opens 

 along the ventral angle to free a descending seed prolonged below into 

 a long flattened wing, and containing within its coats a fleshy embryo 

 with its radicle superior, surrounded by a thin la^'^er of albumen. 

 Only one species of this genus is known,*^ a native of the north of 

 Brazil. Its woody branches bear alternate exstipulate petiolate 

 simple leaves. Its flowers are in terminal racemes." 



adopted our view, but tliey at first {Gen. 164, 

 l'J5) shared that of Planchon {Ann. Sc. Nat., 

 ser. 4, ii. 261), who places Eucrtjplua among 

 the Saxifragacece. 



^ Maet., & Zucc, Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 121 > 

 t. V3.— Ekdl., Gen., n. 6400.— B. H., Gen., 317' 

 616, n. 34. 



2 The fruits alone being known, tlie petals, if 

 there ever were any, must have fallen off in the 

 specimens in the Munich herbarium. 



^ They have been described as diadelphous, 

 four beiug united into one bundle. But we 

 have seen more thun one free filament around 

 the one young fruit we have been able to ex- 

 amine. 



■* The anthers are unknown. 



* E, hirtelloides Mart. & Zucc, he cit.— 



Walp., Eep., V. 659. — Hook. F,, in JIakt., F/. 

 J3ras., Hosac, 60. 



•^ Next to EupJironia has been placed the 

 genus Canotia (Tore., ap. W'ippl., 12), whose 

 flower is pentamerous, with a five-lobed per- 

 sistent calyx and five hypogyuous stamens. Its 

 fruit is a five-celled septicidal capsule, surmounted 

 by the subulate style. In each cell is a suspended 

 seed, whose coats are prolonged below into a mem- 

 branous wing, and contain au embryo in the axis 

 of fieshy albumen. The only species known is C. 

 holocaniha, a shrub from New Mexico, with leaf- 

 less branches, whose alternate twigs end in long 

 spines. Bentham and Hooker say of tliis plant 

 " Genus quoad affinitalem vaJde duhium" (Gen., 

 616, n. 35). As yet the corolla has not been 

 seen, so that tlu characters appear to have been 

 made out from fruiting specimens only. 



