^2 NATFUAL UT^TOnY OF PLANTS. 



37. Eucryphia C'w. — Flowers bermaplirodite, usually 4-merous ; 

 rece])tacle convex. Sepals free; prrefloration imbricated. Petals 

 alternate, hypoi^ynous, straight or oblique; prjeiioration imbri- 

 cated or contorted. Stamens on, free bypogynous ; autbers introrse 

 2-rimose. Ovary superior free 5-15-celled; styles 10-15, free, 

 at apex tapering stigmatiferous ; ovules co in eacb cell, ventral 

 2-seriate descending. Capsule 5-15-celled, septicidal many-seeded ; 

 seeds descending compressed marginate or alate ; albumen thin 

 fleshy ; embryo rather fleshy ; radicle superior. — Eesinous trees ; 

 leaves opposite coriaceous evergreen, simple or pinnate; stipules 

 interpetiolar, minute or large ; flowers axillary solitary pedunculate. 

 {C7ii/f, Aunfralia, Tasmania.) See p. 389. 



38. Euplironia Mart. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle short 

 urceolate ; sepals 5, unequal, finally revolute. Petals ? . . . . Sta- 

 mens 5, perigynous ; filaments either 4 connate in pairs and 5th 

 free, or variably connate, unequal, cohering at broadl3^-dilated base 

 into a ring of variable shortness, barbate below, finally free tapering ; 

 anthers ? . . . . Germen free 3-celled ; ovules solitary (?) pendulous 

 in each cell ; style filiform persistent, barbate half-way up, finally 

 separable into 3. Fruit capsular, subcylindrical, with receptacle and 

 calyx, persisting at base ; mesocarp thin subsuberous 3-partible 

 separating from endocarp ; cells 3-gonous, also separating from 

 slender central column. Seeds solitary pendulous in each cell, 

 small ovoidal, at base produced into a long lanceolate wing ; 

 albumen scanty fleshy ; embryo inverted, radicle short superior ; 

 cotyledons flat rather thick. — A tree (?) ; twigs alternate greyish- 

 puberulous ; leaves alternate simple quite entire, shortly petiolate ; 

 stipules ?....; flowers terminal racemose. {Noiih Brazil.) See 

 p. 391. 



39 ? Canotia Torr.— " Calyx 5-fid small persistent. Petals ? 

 .... Stamens 5, bypogynous ; filaments slender. Capsule long 

 terete narrowly oblong, terminated by persistent style, 5-celled, sep- 

 ticidal 5-valvate ; valves 2-fid at apex ; epicarp thin fleshy ; endocarp 

 woody. Seeds solitary in each cell, compressed oblong suspended 

 near apex of superior angle ; testa coriaceous-chartaceous, produced 

 below into a broad subfalcate wing ; embryo large in axis of fleshy 

 albumen ; cotyledons broad flat ; radicle short terete superior. — A 



