98 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



boldtia or Amherstia, with the exception of three characters. They 

 have no corolla, and their coloured perianth is of a calycine nature ; 

 their axillant bracts are surmounted by two far less developed bract- 

 lets, which do not surround the whole flower, and which may overlap 

 bv their thin edges ; and in certain species the ten stamens are not 

 all fertile, five or six having no anthers. The filaments, too, are 

 neither altogether free, as in Humboldtia, nor united for a long wav, 

 as in Amherstia, but are only monadelphous close to their insertion. 

 The fruit is an elongated, flattened or turgid, bivalve pod. The 

 genus contains three or four species, not very distinct, all Asiatic. 1 

 Their stems are unarmed, and covered with alternate paripinnate 

 leaves, possessing little caducous stipules. The flowers form com- 

 pound ramified racemes, often lateral. 



Apalalorr has the apetalous flowers of Saraca, possessing a diplo- 

 stemonous androceum, of which several pieces may be absent, and a 

 usually pauciovulate androceum. The fruit is orbicular oval or 

 oblong, dehiscing in two valves with thickened edges ; it contains 

 one or two flattened exalbuminous seeds. The genus consists of 

 trees with alternate imparipinnate leaves, possessing stipules of 

 variable form and duration. The flowers form simple racemes 

 terminating the young branches, or inserted laterally on those of 

 former years. Each flower is axillary to a bract, and is accompanied 

 by two lateral bractlets, which are sometimes large and spreading, 

 and persist for a good time beside the flower, which they at first 

 enveloped completehv. There are some half-score of species, mostly 

 from tropical America f one is found in the west of tropical Africa, 4 

 one in Ceylon, 5 and one in the Indian Archipelago. 6 



The corolla reappears in Baikiaa, 1 whose calyx possesses four thick 

 unequal sepals, which only overlap by their bevelled edges. The 



1 Wight & Ass., Frodr., ii. 487.— Wight, 1445.— Pryona JIiq., Fl. Tnd.-Bat, i. p. 1, 

 Icon., t. 200.— Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. 1, 83. 1081. 



— Bot. Mag., t. 3018.— Walp., Ann., iv. 609, 3 Giuseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 216. — Walp., 



610. Fop., i. 854 ; v. 573; Ann., iv. 611. 



2 Aitbl., Guian., 382.— H. Bn., in Adan- - 1 C. senegalensis Pi. — Bentii., Niger, 329; 

 sonia, ix. fasc. 7. — Crudia, Schreb., Gen. 282. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxv. 314, n. 1. 



— B. H., Gen., 584, 1003, n. 358.— H. Bn., in 5 C. zeylanica Bekth., loc. cit., n. 2.—De 



Adansonia, vi. 199. — Crudya W., Spec, ii. tarium zeylanicum Tnw., Enum. PI. Zeyl, 



539.— DC, Prodr., ii. 519. — Endl., Gen., 414. 



n. 6802.— Opalatoa Aubl., op. cit., t. 147. — 6 Apalatoa lantamensis. — Pryona hanta- 



Touchirou L. C. Rich., ex Esd-l.— Touch iroua mensis, Miq., loc. cit., n. 1. 



Aubl., op. cit., 381, t. 4S.— Vouarana Aebl., 7 BEHTH., Gen., 581, 1003, n. 349; in Trans. 



Suppl., 12, t. 347 ?—Cyclas Scheeb., loc. cit. Linn. Soc, xxv. 314, t. 41. — Oliv., Fl. Prop. 



(part.). — M'aldschmidlia Neck., Elem., u. A//:, ii. 308. 



