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Eperwa} (figs. SI, §2) has nearly the flowers of Berlinia and 

 Daniella: the same receptacular tube with t lie foot of the gynaeceum 

 similarly inserted on its posterior wall, the same decandrous an- 

 droceum, and the same corolla reduced to the posterior petal ; but 

 this last is very large, completely covering the androceum in the bud. 

 The gamosepalous calyx is divided above into four unequal imbricate 

 lobes. The staminal filaments are free, or very slightly united at 

 the base. This union is a little more marked in Pari run grandijlora? 

 which is only distinguished by this character from Eperua proper, 



Eperua (P,:r/roa) grandifiora. 



Fig. 81. 

 Flower. 



Fig. 82. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



and which cannot be generically separated from it. The ovary is sur- 

 mounted by a style wliicli is at first rolled up and ends in a slightly 

 dilated stigmatiferous apex ; in the cell are two or more descending 

 anatropous ovules whose micropyles look upwards and outwards. 

 The fruit is a more or less oblique large flattened elongated bivalve 

 pod, containing one or few exalbuminous seeds ; the fleshy cotyledons 

 are prolonged into a sort of sheath surrounding the straight superior 

 radicle. Eperua consists of unarmed slender subsarmentose trees 



' Aubl., Guian., i. 3G9, t. 1 12. — J., Gen , 

 350.— DC, Prodi:, ii. 510. — Spach, Suit, >) 

 Biiffon, i. 117.— Endl., Gen., n. 0800.— 15.11., 

 Gen., 5S0, n. 341. — Rotmannia Neck., Elem., 

 n. 1281. — Dimorpha SCHREB., Gen,., 493. — 

 Panzera W., Spec, ii. 540. 



2 Aubl., op. tit., 75G, t. 303 —DC, he. <•//.. 

 eclvi. — Endl., Gen., n. 6801 -Dim 

 Rttdg-e, in Trims. Linn. Soc.,\x., t. 20. —Adleria 

 Neck., op. c/f., v. 1286. In habit it differs 

 slightly from Epsrua proper. 



