162 NATURAL HISTORY OF RLANT8. 



involving radicle. — Trees or shrubs, often aromatic, odorous Meliloti 

 [Myrodia) ; leaves alternate, entire or subdentate, penninerved or at 

 base 3-5-nerved, sometimes palminerved {Eumatida) , glabrous or 

 tomentose below; stipules minute linear; flowers 1 axillary or very often 

 lateral or leaf-opposed, solitary or scantily cymose ; bracts few, small, 

 more or less remote from "flower (Tropical America*). See p. 104. 



SO. Ochrorna Sw. 3 — "Flowers large ; calyx tubular-subinfundibuli- 

 form, 5-lobed at apex ; lobes dissimilar, dilated on one or both sides, 

 induplicate at margin or partly imbricate. Corolla (of Bombax) 

 5-merous, longer than calyx, contorted, finally revolute. Stamens ao ; 

 apex of subinfundibuliform column shortly 5-lobed, from middle to 

 apex densely covered with adnate elongate-anfractuous anthers. 

 Germen sessile, free ; cells 5-co -ovulate ; apex of style stigmatiferous, 

 entire, cylindrical, spirally 5-sulcate. Capsule elongated, 5-10-agonal, 

 sometimes a little compressed, loculicidal 5-valved ; pericarp out- 

 wardly shortly, internally very densely woolly-villous; valves septife- 

 rous at middle. Seeds ce, obovoid oblong, involute or in wool of carpel; 

 testa thin coriaceous ; base of hilum exarillate ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo rather fleshy ; cotyledons wide, involute at margin ; radicle 

 short. — Trees ; leaves alternate, petiolate, angular-] obed, pubescent 

 beneath ; stipules sometimes ovate-lanceolate, deciduous ; flowers 

 pedunculate at apex of branches {Tropical America"). See p. 105. 



81. Cavanillesia Euiz & Pav. 5 — Calyx subcampanulate, 5-fid val- 

 vate. Petals 5, 2, 3 times longer than calyx, at base becoming 

 glandulous within, contorted. Stamens go ; column connate with 

 petals at base, above the base contracted, afterwards separating into oo 



1 Wliite or pink, sometimes with elongated 3 In Act. Holm. (1792), 148, t. 6 ; Prodr., 

 column (in sect. Fuquararibea) 2, 3 inches. Fl. Ind. Occ, 97 ; Fl., 1143, t. 23. DC, 



2 Spec, ad 15. Cav., Diss., iii, 175, t. 71, Prodr., i. 480. — Endl., Gen., n. 530G. — B. H., 

 fig. 2.— H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 306 v Gen., 212, n. 51. 



(Matilda).— A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 268, 4 Spec. 1, 2. Cav., Diss., v. t. 153 (Bomlax). 



t. 51 (Myrodia).— Pcepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. — W., Fnum., 695. — Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W.- 



et Spec, ii. 35, 1. 150 (Matisia) .—Tu. & Kabst., Ind., 88.— Tb. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., aer. 4, 



Nov. PI. Fl. Nov.- Gran,, 21 ; in Linnaa (1857), xvii. 323. 



86.— Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc,\\. 115.— s Prodr. Fl. Per. et Chil., 97, t. 20.— Coer., 



Tu. & Pi., in Ann, Sc Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 324. in Ann. Mm., ix. t. 26. — Endl., Gen., n. 5304. 



— H. B>\, in Adansonia, x. 180.— WALr., — B. H., Gen., 211, n. 47.— Pour ret ia \X ., 



p,p.,\.ZZl (M;i rod!,,), 332 (Maiisia); ii. 794 Spec. Pl„ iii. 844. (nee alior.).— DC, Prodr., 



(Myrodia)', v. 97 {Myrodia); vii. 417 (Ma- 5. 477. 

 fisia), 422 (Myrodia). 



