LATTBAGE2E. 467 



extrorse ; 3 innermost quite sterile ovate or subsagittate. Germen 

 inserted in bottom of receptacle, free ; style capitate stigmatifcrous 

 at apex ; ovule subpendulous anatropous. Fruit wholly included ; re- 

 ceptacle much thickened with woody vertical dissepiments projecting 

 inwards ; pericarp thin, closely appressed to seed and like it divided 

 into 6 lobes by receptacular dissepiments, except just below apex, 

 long crowned by persistent perianth and androceum, finally umbilicate 

 at apex. Embryo fleshy, shaped like seed and pericarp; radicle 

 short, straight, superior ; cotyledons deeply 3-lobed below. — Trees ; 

 leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; inflorescences axillary and 

 terminal often short {Madagascar). See p. 433. 



17. Ampelodaphne Meissn. 1 — Flowers dioecious; receptacle in- 

 fundibuliform, lined within by a thin disk; perianth-leaves 6 

 regular, finally deciduous. Stamens 9 (in female flower sterile, 

 sometimes 3 or 6 absent) inserted on throat of receptacle, 2- 

 celled ; three innermost extrorse, 2-glandular. Germen (rudimentary 

 or in male flower) inserted and included in bottom of receptacle. 

 Fruit (baccate ?) long included in receptacle and crowned by peri- 

 anth, finally half-exserted and surrounded at base by truncate quite 

 entire lower part of receptacle. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate 

 or subverticillate, coriaceous penniveined ; inflorescences many- 

 flowered pyramidal, axillary or subterminal {Tropical South America;). 



18. Aydendron Nees & Mart. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite; recep- 

 tacle infundibuliform or urceolate ; perianth-leaves 6 subequal, 

 equal to receptacle or longer deciduous. Stamens 9, fertile inserted 

 in throat of receptacle ; anthers ovate obtuse, dehiscing by 2 sub- 

 apical valves (apparently 3-porricidal through early fall of valves) ; 

 innermost 3 extrorse, 2-glandular at base. Sterile stamens or 

 minute. Germen included in receptacle. Berry almost completely 

 included or half-exserted ; rim of cupule, single or double ; inner lip 

 inflexed finally erect ; outer patulous or scarcely prominent. — Trees 

 or shrubs; leaves alternate penniveined; inflorescences axillary or 

 subterminal {Tropical America*). 



1 Prodr., 81. 3 Nees & Mart., in Linncta, viii. 36.— Nees' 



2 Species 3. Miq., PI. Surin,, 203.— Meissn., Syst., 245.— Endl,, Gen., n. 2010.— Meis-v, 

 in Mart. Fl, Bras., Laitrac, 167, t. 57. — Prodr., 87, 510. 



Walp., Ann., iii. 112 (Gasppertia). 4 Species about 3d. Nees, in Linnaa, xxi. 



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