474, NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Grermen free ; style short ; apex thickened 3-gonous stigmatiferous. 

 Berry surrounded at base by truncate turbinate receptacle ; rim 

 double ; both lips very short erect ; outer obsoletely 6-crenate ; 

 inner subentire. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate coriaceous pen- 

 niveined ; peduncles axillary and subterminal slender at above 

 halfway up, forming branching corymbs, bracteate ; branches of 

 peduncles cymose or subumbellate, 3-x> -flowered (Tropical America). 

 See p. 436. 



37. Goeppertia Nees. 1 — Mowers dioecious or polygamous ; recep- 

 tacle cupuliform or very shortly obconical spreading ; perianth 

 rotate; leaves 6 equal short, tardily deciduous. Stamens 9 (in 

 female flower sterile antherless), in male flower fertile, 2-locellate ; 

 innermost 3 2-glandular extrorse ; filaments flat ; connective pro- 

 duced beyond cells. Grermen (in male flower sterile narrow) inserted 

 in centre of receptacle, free; stigma often subsessile. Berry oblong, 

 long surrounded at base by persistent 6-lobed perianth, supported 

 on cupuliform truncate (after fall of perianth) receptacle. — Trees ; 

 leaves alternate penniveined or more frequently pseudo-tripliveined ; 

 inflorescences axillary lax (Tropical America"). 



IV. TETKANTHERE^]. 



38. Tetranthera Jacq. — Flowers dioecious (or very rarely poly- 

 gamous). Perianth usually 6-merous petaloid deciduous, inserted 

 on small subconcave receptacle. Stamens usually 9-12, more rarely 

 15-30, perigynous; filaments free; inner 3 or 6 possessing 1 or 2 

 stipitate or sessile glands ; anthers (in female flower rudimentary or 

 0) 4-locellate. Starninodes obsolete or 0. Germen (in male flower 

 rudimentary or 0) free ; style slender, variably dilated at stigmatife- 

 rous apex. Berry supported on patelliform flat or subconcave, entire 

 or sinuate receptacle. — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate or more 

 rarely opposite, penniveined, persistent or rarely deciduous ; buds 

 with leafy scales, or more frequently incomplete ; flowers forming 

 4-8-flowered umbels ; each inflorescence enclosed in an involucre 



1 Syst., 354, 365.— Endl., Gen., n. 2051.— — Schott, in Spreng. Syst., iv. 405 {Crypto. 



Meissn., Prodr., 172, 513.— Fndlicheria Nees, carya).— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., i. 284 



in Linnaa, viii. 87 (nee Peesl). — Schaueria (Aydendron). — Meissn., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 



Nees, in Lindl. Nat. Syst., ed. 2, 202. Laurac, 281, t. 103, 104. 



2 



Species 12-14. Nees, in Linnaa, xxi. 513. 



