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stamens, and the same gynseceum. The pod, which only opens very 

 incompletely, is oblong compressed, and straight or bowed, and has 

 often a thick narrow rudimentary wing on the parietal suture. The 

 seeds are orbicular compressed, borne on a funicle which is sometimes 

 dilated into an aril. 1 But the flowers of Schotia are never enclosed 

 in the two accompanying bracelets, which, like the axillant bracts, 

 are membranous and caducous. The flowers are numerous, in 

 compound racemes that are often much ramified. The four or five 

 species composing this genus are unarmed trees or shrubs from South 

 Africa, 2 with paripinnate leaves possessing short caducous stipules. 



Paiovea? has nearly the flower of Amherstia and Humboldtia. But 

 the corolla is reduced to the three posterior sepals, the two anterior 

 having disappeared ; and the stamens, which are free, are only nine 

 in number, owing to the disappearance of the vexillary stamen also. 

 The two accompanying bractlets are united into a tube to a pretty 

 good height, and the leaves are simple and entire, instead of being 

 compound. P. c/uianensis, the only species, is an unarmed tree from 

 Guiana, whose flowers are in short few-flowered spikes terminating 

 the branches. 



Misabethct has externally altogether the flower of Paiovea, with 

 two lateral bractlets united for some distance into a tube, and a 

 corolla of five well-developed petals. But of the nine stamens, which 

 are united for a very short distance at the base of the filament, the 

 three alone that are superposed to the three anterior sepals are 

 large and end in well-developed anthers. The six others have only 

 little sterile anthers, or are reduced to the subulate filaments. The 

 gynseceum and fruit resemble those of Amherstia and Paiovea in E. 

 coccinea Schomb , 5 the only known species, an unarmed tree from 

 Guiana, with paripinnate leaves and short terminal racemes, each 

 flower axillary to a large coloured coriaceous bract. 



26; Suppl., v. 114; III., t. 331.— DC, Prodr., 

 ii. 507.— E>*i>l., Gen., n. 6785.— B. H., Gen., 

 581, n. 350. — Guaiacum L., ex J., Gen., 347. — 

 Theodora Medik., Monog., Mannb. (1796), 16, 

 icon., ex Eckl. & Zeyh., Enum. PI. Afr. Austr., 

 261.— ScotiaTnVNB., Fl. Cap.,\. Z89.— Ompha- 

 lobium Jacq,, ex DC, loc. tit., 508 (nee DC). 



1 The aril exists in S. latifolia Jacq. (Fragm., 

 23, t. 15, fig. 4), which De Candolle has made 

 the type of his section Omphalobioides. S. 

 (Theodora) speciosa Jacq., lacks it. 



- Harv. & So.nd.. /•'/. C„ v ., ii. 273.— Hauv., 

 Then. Cap., t. 32. — Jacq., loc. elf., 136 ; Ic. Ear., 



t. 75.— Hook., Exot. Flor., t. 159; in Eot. Mag., 

 t. 1153. — Andr., Pol. Repos.,t. 348. Boxle, 

 in Pet. Mossamb., 18. — H. Bx., in Adans 

 vi. 187, 197.— Ollv., Flor. Trop. Afr.. ii. 309. 



3 Aubl., Giiiiui., 3t>\~>, t. 14] (JPaloue). — J., 

 Gen., 351. — L.AMK., Diet., iv. 716; Suppl., iv. 

 265; III., t. 323.— DC. Prodr., ii. .Ms. 

 EiN'dl., Gen., n. 6799.— B. II.. Q «., 578, n 



— Ginnania SCOP., In! rod., n. 1366.- Si im;i r... 

 Gen., 271. 



4 Schomb., in Koolc. Journ., ii. 9l'. — Endl., 

 Gen., ii. 679 l 1 .— Ii. II.. Gten., 577, n. 337. 



5 Wai.i', Rep., i. 843 



