198 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



tubular at apex, hians stigmatiferous, 4-8-denticulate. Capsule 

 oblong, echinate, loculicidal ; valves 4-8, transversely falsely septate 

 between seeds. Seeds obovate compressed ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 rather thick ; cotyledons flat. — Trees or small shrubs ; hairs stellate ; 

 leaves alternate, dentate, or unequally 3-5-lobed ; stipules small, 

 lanceolate or setaceous; flowers 1 in terminal cymes, 1-parous, simple, 

 or little ramified, few ; bracts 1-lateral, sometimes incised 2 (Tropical 

 Western Africa*). See p. 172. 



20. Corchorus L.' — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; receptacle often short 

 or elongated between the insertion of stamens and perianth, or more 

 rarely (Guazmnoides') produced beyond perianth in a slender column 

 dilated at apex, disciform, bearing the sexual organs. 6 Sepals val- 

 vate and petals alternate, naked at base, imbricate or more rarely 

 contorted. Stamens either 2 or 3 times as many as petals ; 7 all fertile, 

 or the interior 4, 5, oppositipetalous, antherless, petaloid (CorcJio- 

 ropsis 6 ), or cr, all fertile; filaments free; anthers introrse or 

 versatile, and finally extrorse (Corchoropsis) 2-locular, longitudi- 

 nally rimose. Germen 2-5-locular ; cells complete or very incom- 

 plete, 1-locular; placentas sometimes not quite touching the middle 

 of cell, 9 a: -ovulate; st}de simple; apex dilated hollow, truncate, 

 denticulate or crenulate stigmatiferous. Capsule short, subglobose 

 (Ganja w ) or much oftener elongate-siliquiform, naked, not horned at 

 apex, 2-valved (Corefa n ), or loculicidal and septicidal 3-10-valved 

 (Coretoidcs v ), afterwards at apex divergent in 2-5 horns (Cerato- 

 coreta™), sometimes ovate-oblong, subcylindrical, velvety or muricate 



1 Sometimes large, bluish violet. 6 Whence the section presents a transition to 



2 Gen. scarcely distinct from Corclio- Triumfetla. 



rus. "i Often 8,in4-merousflowersof Antichorus (L., 



3 Spec. 2 (v. 3 ?). Dcne., in Deless Ic. Sel., Manfiss., n.1257). Stirps and aspect distinct. 

 v. t. 1. — Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr., i. 260. 8 Sieb. & Zucc, in Abh. Akad. Munch., iii. 

 — H. Bn., m Adansonia, x. 183.— W&1.Y., Ann., 737, t. 4,-15. H., Gen., 235, 986, n. IS.— 

 i. 110. Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 36- 



4 Gen., n. 675 (nee T.). — J., Gen., 290. — ^ 9 South American and Australian species. 

 Gjeetn., Fruct., i. 307; ii. 482. — Lame., Diet., 10 Whence Nettoa (H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. 

 ii. 103; Suppl., iii. 349; III., t. 478.— DC, 238, t. 7 ;— B. H., Gen., 9S6, n. 16 a) better 

 Prodr., i. 504. — Sfach, Suit, a Bnffon, iv. 7. made a section of Corchorusis ; receptacle as in 

 — Endl., Gen., n. 5371. — B. H., Gen., 235, Guazmnoides, elevated beyond perianth and 

 9S6, n. 18. — Payee, Organog., 23. — A. Geay, dilated at apex. The plant affords also an easy 

 Gen. III., t, 137. — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. transition to the Triumfettas. Petals inserted 

 4 2 - — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 192. — Marlen&ia with stamens. 



Vki.uz., Fl. Finn,., v. t. 112,— Coreta P. Be., u Rumph., Herb. Amloin., v. t, 78, fig. 1.— 



Jam., 117. (inch: Auliehorus L., Corchoropsis DC, loc. cit. (sect. iv.). 

 Sim. A Zucc, Nettoa II. Bn.). m p. Be. Jam. (ex DC). 



s DC , Prodr., i. 505 (sect. v.). » DC, Prodr., 504 (sect, ii.). 



