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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



lobed-corrugate ; radicle short, cylindrical ; albumen 0, or scanty, 

 mucilaginous between folds of cotyledons. — Trees ; leaves alternate, 

 large, simple, oblong, undivided, penninerved or at base 3-5- 

 nerved ; stipules small ; flowers axillary or lateral, springing from 

 the wood, solitary or in cymes, sometimes in racemose cymes, scanty 

 or co {Warm America). See p. 80. 



28 ? Herrania Goun. 1 — Flowers nearly of Theobroma ; calyx 

 3-5-fid ; petals 5, inflexed at apex, produced in linear ligules, some- 

 times very long, circinate-involute before opening. Other characters 

 of Theobroma. — Trees ; trunk crowned with palmiform frondose 

 coma ; leaves large, digitate, foliate ; inflorescence (of Theobroma) 

 springing from the trunk {Warm America 1 ). 



29 ? Guazuma Plum. 3 — Flowers nearly of Theobroma ; base of 

 petals unguiculate-cucullate, inflexed ; laminaB ligulate, linear, deep 

 2 -fid. Stamens fertile, interposed to staminodes, 2, 3-nate. Cap- 

 sule subglobose, ligneous, tuberculate-muricate, or sometimes with 

 very long soft feathery hairs, much echinate, loculicidal at a greater 

 or less distance from the apex, 5-valved. Seed albuminous ; embryo 

 curved ; cotyledons foliaceous, inflexed-folded. — Trees, glabrous, or 

 with stellate hairs tomentose ; leaves usually oblique, unequally 

 dentate; flowers 4 axillary or laterally cymose 5 (Tropical America 6 ). 



30. Scaphopetalum Mast. 7 — Calyx 5-fid, sometimes irregular, 

 2-partite, valvate. Petals 5, cucullate-concave, exappendiculate, 

 subinduplicate. Stamens connate in urceolus much open, at apex 1 0- 

 dentate ; antherless, lobes alternipetalous, rounded, reflexed ; anthers 



i Iu Ann. Sc Nat., ser. 3, ii. 230, t. 5.— 

 B. H., Gen., 225, n. 29.— H. En., iu Adansonia, 

 ix. 3 10. — Brotobroma Kakst. & Tr., Fl, 

 Granad., 11 (ex Linncea, xxviii. 446.) — Light iu 

 Schomb. (ex Tr.). 



'-' Spec. 4? Mart., in Lenkschr. Megensb. 

 Bot. Ges., iii. t. 8, 9 (Abroma).— Schomb., in 

 Linnaiu, xx. 756. — Tr. & Pi., in Ann. Sc. Nut., 

 ser. 4, xvii. 337. — Walp., Rep., v. Ill ; Ann., 

 i. 959; vii. 430. 



3 Gen., 36, t. 18.— J., Gen., 276.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 487.— Endl., Gen., n. 5334.— H. 

 Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 291.— B. H., Gen., 

 225, n. ZO.—Bubroma Schkeb., Gen., 513. — 



Diuroglossum Tuecz., in Bull. Mosc. (1852), ii. 

 157. 



4 Small, often crowded. 



5 Section of Theobroma (?). 



6 Spec, ad 5, Cat., Icon., t. 299.— H. B. K., 

 Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 320.— A. S. H., PI. Us. 

 Bras., t. 47, 48 ; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 147.— 

 Wight, III., t. 31. — Pcepp. & Eudl., Nov. 

 Gen, et Spec, iii. t. 283.— Griesb. Fl. Brit. 

 W.-Ind., 90.— Tr. & Fl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 

 4, xvii. 335.— Waxp., JBep., i. 340; v. 112; 

 Ann,, vii. 431. 



" In Journ, Linn. Soc, x. 27. — B. H., Gen., 

 983, n. 30 a. 



