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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



lary or subterminal, usually subcorymbiform 1 (Tropical, and Southern- 

 subtropical America?). 



31. Pleurotliyrium Neks. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 thick, shortly obconical, lined by a thick disk, more or less inflexed 

 above ; perianth-leaves longer thick coriaceous deciduous. Fertile 

 stamens 9, inserted perigynously with perianth outside rim of disk ; 

 outer 6 alternating with perianth-lobes ; inner 3 2-glandular ; 

 filaments rather thick ; anthers thick, cubical-oblong ; locelli 4, in a 

 finally horizontal row, extrorse in outer 6, introrse in inner 3 

 stamens ; outer locelli sublateral ; middle pair rather higher. Sterile 

 stamens 3 small, or 0. Germen included in receptacle, free. Berry 

 included in or surrounded by receptacle with truncate apex .... ? — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; inflores- 

 cences (usually large) axillary or terminal ; bracts deciduous (Peru, 

 North Brazil'). 



32. Dicypellium Nees. 3 — " Flowers dioecious. Perianth rotate 

 spreading, deeply 6-partite, coriaceous, wholly persistent. Male flower 

 unknown. Female: — stamens 12 sterile, 4-seriate ; 3 outermost 

 petaloid persistent, finally coriaceous ; those of second row antheri- 

 form subspathulate, obsoletely 4-locellate below inflexed apex ; those 

 of third row similar to last, smaller subtruncate ; of fourth row 

 scale-like erect oblong, appressed against pistil. Other staminodes 0. 

 Stigma acute. Berry dry, at base surrounded by subcarnose en- 

 larged and indurated perianth spreading with the stamens ; sup- 

 ported on dilated flat 6-angular disk" (Brazil''). 



33. Synandrodaphne Meissn. 7 — Flowers hermaphrodite; recep- 

 tacle infundibuliform ; perianth subrotate merous persistent. 



1 Nees divides tins genus into two sections : — 

 1. Pomatia, flowers rather large, usually tomen- 

 tose outside ; staminodes small or ; inflores- 

 cences corymbiform or thyrsoidj leaves usually 

 revolute at edge. 2. Porostema (Schreb.), 

 flowers small glabrous or subtomentose ; sta- 

 minodes small subcapitate or ; inflorescences 

 thyrsoid or more frequently laxly elongated ; 

 leaves flat, or more rarely slightly reflexed at 

 edge. 



2 Species about 75. NeeSj in Linncea, viii. 

 46 ; xxi. 501. — Benth., PI. Hartweg., 253 ; 

 Sulph., 161.— Griseb., FL Brit. W. ItuL, i. 



281. — Meissn., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Laurac, 

 250, t. 90-101, 105 (Hi.). 



3 Syst., 342, 349.— -Endx., Gen., n. 2017. — 

 Meissn., Prodr., 16S. 



4 Species 7 or 8. Meissn., in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras., Laurac, 279. — Waxp., Ann., iii. 311. 



5 Syst., 343. — Endx., Gen., n. 2045.— 

 Meissn., Prodr., 170. 



6 Species 1. D. caryophylla/um Nees, loc. 

 cit. (excl. syn.). — Meissn., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 

 Laurac, 281, t. 102. — Persea ? caryophyllata 

 MAEx.(ex Meissn.). — IbyraGiynkaofthe natives. 



7 Prodr.,l7o 



