47U NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



(rarelv more), fertile uuilateral, the rest antherless short glandular 

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

 fi-rtile connate to a variable height, circiuate in testivation ; anthers 

 introrse riniose. Gynieceum (of Chrysohcdanus) very excentric, in- 

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

 style slender elongated, circinate in a3stivation. Berry or drupe 

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

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

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

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

 bracts ollen glandular. {Tropical and subtropical America, Madagas- 

 car.) See p. 4-:0. 



Gi!. Couepia Aubl. — Flowers hermaphrodite (of Ilirtella). Petals 

 .') or 0. Stamens 15-oo , arranged in a complete or incomplete ring; 

 tilaments united to a variable height. Grynaiceum of Ilirtella. Drupe 

 ol" very variable form ; mesocarp fleshy or coriaceous ; putamen 

 woody i -seeded. Seed of Ilirtella. — 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 suhtropncal America}) See p. 423. 



G3. Parinari Aubl. — Flowers hermaphrodite {o^ Couepia) ; recep- 

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

 rarely 4. Stamens IO-^d, all fertile or some antherless, forming a 

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

 Ilirtella ; 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 

 fU'shy 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. {Tropical America and 

 Africn, Mudaf/ascar, Indian Archipelago, northern Australia, Islands 

 of the Parijic.) See p. 424. 



G4? Trichocarya Miq.—" Receptacle hypocrateriform ; tube 

 cylindrical angular entirely adherent to swollen gynophore ; sepals 5, 

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



