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Brownea' (figs. 70-72) has features of all the preceding 



The)' have still the same receptacle, calyx, fruit, and Is; the 



corolla consists of five well developed petals, as in Amherstia, hut 

 there are from ten to fifteen stamens, free or monadelphous to a 

 variable height. The flowers of Brownea are united at the ends of 

 the branches in splendid short spikes or heads, each flower axillary 

 to a coloured petal and bract. The bractlets, united edge to ed 

 for a considerable distance, form a long sheath, from which the 



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oetnea. 



Fig. 7 . 

 Flower. 



Fig. 71. 

 Diagram. 



. 72. 

 Longitudinal sec-lion of tl 



flower emerges on anthesis. About eight species- of Brownea are 

 known, all fine glabrous trees or shrubs from tropical America ; their 

 alternate paripinnate leaves possess caducous, sometimes coloured, 

 leafy stipules. In this respect Brownea comes very near Elisabetha : 

 but its stamens, which are all fertile, nearly equal, and exserted> 

 resemble those of Palovea. 



Saraca 3 consists of Indian trees, whose flowers are those of Hum- 



1 Jacq., Fl. Amer., 194, t. 121 ; Fragm., 

 t. 1G-23.— L., Gen., n. 833. — J., Gen., 366.— 

 Lame., Diet., i. 471 ; Suppl., i. 710 ; III., t. 575. 

 —DC, Frodr., ii. 477-— Endi., Gen., n. 6810. 

 — B. H., Gen., 577, n. 336. — Hermesia Lcefl., 

 If., 27S ? (nee K.) 



2 H. B. K., Xov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 312.— 

 Vcevv. & Endl., Nov. Gen. e\ .. fc. 292.— 

 Hook., in B '. Mag., t. 3964, 1839.— Bot. 



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Reg. (1841), t. 30.— LlKDI. & Paxt., Ft. 

 ., t. 59— Walp., Ttep., v. ' 

 3 Bur.M., Fl. Ind., 85, t. 25, fig. 2. — L., 

 ss., n. 1267.— J., Gen., 422.— Ii. H., 

 Gen., .'jS3, n. 357. — Jonesia Boxi!.. in A 

 Res., iv. 355, icon.; Fl. Ind., ii. 212.— DC. 

 dr., ii. 487.— Spai ff, v HO 



— Emu... Gen., n. 6795 I 



Eort. Malab., v. 117. t. i 



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