NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Parity gone ova (a. 



Fig. 12. 

 Fruit (f). 



Fig. 13. 

 Long. sect, of fruit. 



fleshy or subcorneous cotyledons (figs. 12, 13). We cannot make a 

 distinct genus for Hyperbana? which has somewhat more elongated 

 carpels with thinner bowed styles. We make it only a section of 



the genus Pachygone, which thus 

 constituted contains half a dozen 

 species 2 from Tropical Asia and 

 America. All the species of Hyper- 

 ban a are American. 



Pycnarrhena and Hamatocarpui 

 come very near Pachygone, whereof 

 they have the general organization. 

 The latter has a calyx of from 

 three to five trimerous verticils, and six stamens incurved above 

 with lateral anther-cells. The only known species is Indian. 4 Pycnar- 

 rhena'' has nine short stamens, inserted on a swollen subglobular 

 receptacle, and the two anther-cells blend below on dehiscence. Two 

 or three species are known, 6 natives of India and the neighbouring 

 islands of Oceania. 



Cliondodendron' is also nearly allied to the preceding genera. It 

 may have as many as six whorls to the calyx, and the three innermost 

 stamens are large and petaloid, reflexed at the apex. The anther- 

 cells are lateral, with an apiculate intlexed connective. The fruits are 

 stipitate drupes. This genus contains half a dozen American species. 8 

 tSychnosepalum, 9 also American, is nearly allied to the last genus. 

 Its flowers possess an indefinite number of stamens superposed in six 

 vertical rows, with terminal anthers and unprolonged connectives ; 

 all or certain of the filaments cohere together ; their fruits are also 

 coherent at the base. Three species have been described. 



1 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 44 ; 

 ser. 3, xix. 92.— B. H., Gen., 38, 963, n. 24. 



2 Deless., Ic. SeL, i. t. 96 (Cocculus).— 

 Wight, Icon., t. 824, 825.— Benth., in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 50 (Hyptrbana). — Gei- 

 SEB., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 10 [Cocculus); PI. 

 Wright., 4 (Anomospermum, sect. Apabuta). — 

 Eichl., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Menisp., 195, t. 

 47 [Pachygone). — Walp., Ann., iv. 133. 



3 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xix. 194. 



B. H., Gen., 964, n. 28.— Baierium Miees (ex 

 ips., loc. cit., 194). 



4 Hook. & Thoiis., Fl. Inch, i. 204 (Fi- 

 Iraurea). 



5 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 44. — 

 B. H., Gen., 38, n. 25. 



6 Walp., Ann., iv. 134. 



7 K. & Pat., Prodr., 132 (nee alior.).— 

 Miers, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xix. 187.— 

 B. H., Gen., 963, n. 26. — Botryopsis Miees, in 

 Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 43. — B. H., Gen., 

 38, n. 26. 



8 Eichl., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Menisp., 199, 

 t. 48 (Botryopsis). 



9 Eichl., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Menisp., 202, 

 t. 49. — Mieks, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xix. 

 192.— B. H., Gen., 963, n. 26 a.—Detandra 

 Miees, loc. cit., 124. 



