408 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



19. Acrodiclidium Nees.' — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 obconical tubular or suburceolate, more or less narrowed in throat ; 

 perianth-leaves 6, subequal to receptacle or shorter. Stamens 9 

 inserted in throat of receptacle ; outer 6 sterile, scale-like or 

 glandular ; innermost 3 fertile ; filaments thick, often short, more or 

 less coherent. Anthers extrorse 2-celled ; cells dehiscing by a 

 little oblique lid which early disappears. Germen inserted in bottom 

 of receptacle. Berry more or less dry, included in truncate, or in- 

 serted on finally flat receptacle ; rim single or double. — Trees or 

 shrubs; leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, penniveined; in- 

 florescences axillary and subterminal ; bracts small or caducous 

 (Tropical America 2 ). 



20. Silvia Allem. 3 — " Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx infundibu- 

 liform ; limb 6 -cleft ; lobes equal, shorter than tube (receptacle), 

 persistent. Outer stamens ; stamens of third row 3, inserted in 

 throat, opposite outer calyx-lobes, extrorse glandular ; anthers ovate 

 obtuse tapering into short flat glabrous filaments, obliquely 2- 

 porricidal a little below apex. Staminodes 0. Germen closely in- 

 cluded in calyx-tube, free ovate ; style filiform ; stigma peltate 

 umbilicate. Berry dry oval, surrounded at base by spreading, 

 scarcely enlarged, 6-lobed calyx. — Trees, with altogether habit of 

 Acrodiclidium ; flowers small naked panicled" (Brazil*). 



21. Endiandra E. Br. 5 — Flowers polygamous; receptacle ob- 

 conical thick ; perianth deciduous ; 3 outer leaves equal to inner or 

 a little shorter. Stamens 9, 6 outer sterile small or gland-like, 

 nearly free or connate into a ring ; 3 inner fertile ; filaments 2 -glan- 

 dular or glandless at base; anthers extrorse 2-celled. Berry im- 



497. — W., Spec, ii. 482 (Laurus) ? — Spheng., ii. 176 (Endiandra). — Nees, in Linncea, xxi. 



Sgst, ii. 269. — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 500. — Meissn., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Laurac, 



ii. 266 (Ocotea). — Meissn., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 172, t. 59-61. 



Laurac, 176, t. 62-66, 105 (ii.). — Walp., Ann., 3 JDescr. Gen. Silvia Impress, (ex Meissn., 



iii. 308. (To this must be ascribed Persea hype- Prodr., 84, nee Velloz.). — Silvcea Meissn., 



ricifolia Nees, Syst., 165. — Laurus hyperici- loc cit. (nee Philipp., ncc H. Bn.). 



folia W.—Cryplocarya ? dubia H. B. K., Nov. * Species 1. S. navalium Allem., loc cit., ic. 



Gen. et Spec, ii. 167.) —Meissn., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Laurac, 171 



1 Syst., 244, 266.— Endl., Gen., n. 2042.— (Silvcea).— Tapinhoan of the natives. 

 Meissn., Prodr., 84, 510. s Prodr., 402.— Nees, Syst., 193.— Endl., 



2 Species about 14. Sw., Prodr., 65 (Laurus) ; Gen., n. 2033.— Meissn., Prodr., 78, 509. 

 Fl. Ind. Occ, ii. 706, 709.— Spreng., Syst., 



