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NATURAL mSTORY OF PLANTS. 



rej,noiis of Americu and Africa, presenting several forms or varieties 

 consideretl by some authors as sufficiently distinct species ; but this 

 opinion appears on the whole barely admissible. 



Xext to Chnixohnlainis, come the plants which Aublet named 

 Moquilfu} 'Die iloral receptacle forms a sac far more rounded at the 

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

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

 Certain species, such as M. gaiaiicims^ (figs. 489, 490), have a 

 calyx simihir to that of Chrijmhnlanus, and ten stamens, five superposed 



Licania (Moquilea) guianensis. 



Fig. 489. 

 Flower (f ). 



Fig. 490. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



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

 of a Ions: 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 rarel}'- 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 

 Cdlifjiii? Here too the stamens may be numerous/ but several 



TrB9., Fl Ant., iv. 91, t. 31.— DC, loc. cH., n. 

 1.— Hf.Ntii., yiffcr, 33(5. — H. Bx., Adansonia, 

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

 — C. elliptiriix Sor,., ex. Sab., Trans. Hort. Sac. 

 jA>nil., V. 453. — C. piUocarjms MlQ., Prim. Fl. 

 Emiequfh., 193. 



' Arm.., Guian., i. 521. — T., Gen., 341.— 

 Lamk., Diet., iv. 272, ///., t. 735.— DC, Prodr., 

 ii. 52r.. — KxuL., Gt-n., n. fVl-lO (pnrt.). — 15. H., 

 Gen., (>()(>, n. 3. — Jlal/iroriipie kind Leptobalanus 

 (rocI. Lieania) IJkntii., Jlook. Jouni., ii. 212. 



« Arm... loc. cif., t. 20H. 



* S<niic exceptionally tetramerous flowers 



have an androceum of only eight stamens. 



'' P'specially in those forming the section 



Fumoquilea (Hook. F., Mart. Fl. Bras., Sosar., 



^ In this same section Emnoquilea. 



^ Even with a pentamerous calyx. 



^ Licania Aubl., Guian., i. 119, t. 45. — .T., 

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

 III., i. 122.— DC, Prodr., ii. 527.— Spach, Suit. 

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

 Gen., 006, n. 2. — Hedycrea SCHREB., Gen., 160. 



* There may be as many as fifteen in certain 

 species of the section Ilymenopus (Benth.). 



