TITJACEJE. 195 



rnents scarcely coalescing at centre ; cells co-ovulate ; style simple ; 

 stigma obtuse. Fruit globose coriaceous uncinate-echinate (loculicidal 

 3-valved ?). Seeds co, nidulant in pulp ; embryo. . . ? — Small trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate glabrous, or glabrescent rigidly membranous 

 denticulate, sub-3-plinerved at base ; flowers 1 in umbelliferous pe- 

 dunculate few-flowered lateral or terminal cymes ; fructiferous 

 peduncles recurved" (Trop. West Africa:). See p. 172. 



14. Luhea TV. 3 — Flowers calyculate ; sepals 5, thick valvate. 

 Petals 5, base naked or glandular-thickened, sometimes connate 

 with base of androceum, imbricated or contorted. Stamens cc, free 

 or shortly connate at base in 5 phalanges, alternipetalous, or in 10; 

 exterior ones antherless, generally filiform ; interior fertile ; anthers 

 extrorse, sometimes subsagittate, longitudinally rimose. Grermen free ; 

 cells 5, cc- ovulate, sometimes falsely septate within ; ovules 2 -seriate, 

 ascending, imbricate ; style erect, obscurely 5-lobedat apex. Capsule 

 ligneous, loculicidal semi-5-valved. Seeds go, imbricate, ascending, 

 upper part produced in a wing; embryo albuminous; cotyledons plano- 

 foliaceous. — Trees or shrubs; hairs simple and stellate; leaves alternate, 

 sometimes oblique at base, serrate, reticulate ; stipules 2-nate, deci- 

 duous ; flowers 4 solitary, or oftener in ramified cymiferous racemes ; 

 bracts under flower 5-8, often longer than calyx, sometimes connate, 

 deciduous, simulating an exterior calyx (Hot regions of N. and S. 

 America). 5 See p. 172. 



15? Graeffea Seem. 6 — "Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, val- 

 vate. Petals 5, naked at base, imbricate. Stamens go, inserted on the 

 receptacle produced in a cone beyond perianth, co-seriate ; filaments 

 free ; anthers oblong, 2-locular versatile rimose. Grermen 2-locular ; 

 style short, stigmatiferous at apex, dilated hollow, unequally denti- 

 culate ; cells co-ovulate. Fruit...? — A glabrous tree ; leaves alternate, 



1 " Mediocritibus, albis." 5 Spec, ad 15. Makt. & Zrcc, Nov. Gen. 



2 Spec. 2. Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. et Spec, i. 98, t. 61-63. —A. S. H., PI. Us. 

 265. Bras., t. 66 ; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 289, t, 57, 58. 



3 In Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. N. Schr., iii. 409, — Pohl., PI. Bras., t. 186, 187.— Bexth., in 

 t. 5. — DC, Prodr., i. 517. — Exdl., Gen., n. Journ. Linn. Soe., v. Suppl., 58. — Tb. & Pl., 

 5365.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 39. — B. H., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 347.— Walp., 

 Gen., 235, n. 20. — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. Bep.,'\. 352; ii. 798; v. 116; Ann., vii. 448. 

 45.— Brotera Velloz., Ft. Flum., vii. t. 163.— 6 Journ. of Bot. (1861), 71, t. 6 ; Fl. Vit., 

 Aleyria Mo(,\ & Sess., Fl. Mex. Med. (ex DC, 27, t. 6.— BcCQ., in Adansonia, vii. 52. — B. H., 

 Prodr., i. 516). Gen., L'86, n. 22 a. 



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White or pink, beautiful. 







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