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high septicidal. Seeds in cells few or 1, descending, ovoid or 

 obovoid ; chalaza sometimes produced in aril arclied or spirally 

 twisted and fleshy {Duhouzetia 1 ) ; embiyo albuminous straight; cotyle- 

 dons flat or rather wide. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate or oppo- 

 site, often serrate j stipules small, caducous or ; flowers 2 axillary, 

 solitary or 2, 3-nate 3 {Chili, N. Caledonia*). See p. ISO. 



35. Sloanea L. 5 — Flowers usually hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 shortly convex, sometimes cylindrical, short (Blondea*), oftener dilated 

 beyond perianth in a convex hemispherical or depressed conical thick 

 glandular and foveolate disk. Sepals 3-5, oftener 4, valvate, some- 

 times coalescing in truncate calyx, rarely slightly imbricated, or 4, 

 2-seriate much imbricated {Echinocarpus 7 ). Petals 0, or rarely 1-4, 

 sepaloid, smaller than calyx, subentire or dentate, sometimes (Ec/ii- 

 nocarpus) larger, unequally incised imbricate {Ecldnocarjpus). Stamens 

 go , hypogynous ; filaments short, foveolate cc -seriate inserted on 

 disk (where present) cr-seriate ; anthers elongated or more 

 rarely shortened, apiculate or muticous ; cells lateral or sub- 

 introrse, more or less high rimose from apex. Germen free ; 

 cells 3-5, oftener 4, complete or more or less incomplete, 8 ovules 

 go ; style subulate, stigmatiferous at apex, simple or more or less 

 high, 4-5-fid {Ablania*). Capsule thick-coriaceous, or oftener woody, 

 densely echinate or more rarely velvety or setose without {J)asy- 

 carpus, 10 usually 4-locular, 4-valved, sometimes 1-3-valved, or sub- 



1 Panch., ex Be. & Gr., in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 de Fr., viii. 199; in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, i. 

 357 ; in 2fouv. Arch. Mus., iv. 34, t. 13. — 

 B. H., Gen., 240, 987, fl. 39.— Bocq., in Adan- 

 sonia, vii. 51. 



2 Large, beautiful, red or golden, sometimes 

 white. 



3 Scarcely to be distinguish from Elaocarpus, 

 except by capsule ? 



4 Spec, ad 5. Hook., in Bot. Misc., iii. 156, 

 t. 100.— C. Gat, Fl. Chil., i. 337 {Tricuspid- 

 aria), 340. — Tcbcz., in Bull. JIosc. (1863), i. 

 576. — Waxp., Ann., vii. 458. 



5 Gen., n. 655. — Ada>"s , Fam. des PI., ii. 

 382.— J. Gen., 291.— Poir., Diet., vi. 20; 

 Suppl., iv. 635. — Lamk., III., t. 469.— DC, 

 Prod,:, i. 515. — Endi., Gen., n. 5363. — Bejjth., 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 62. — B. H., 

 Gen., 238, 987, n. 34. — Bocq., in Adansonia, 

 vii. 48. — ? Foveolaria MEI8SK., Gen., 36 (28). 



6 L. C. Rich., in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par., 

 100. 



7 Bl., Bijdr., 56. — E>'dl., Gen., n. 5062. — 

 Clos., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, viii. 266. — 

 Be>*th., in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Suppl., 71. — 

 B. EL, Gen., 239, 987, n. 35. — Bocq., in Adan- 

 sonia, vii. 49. — P. aIcell., Fraym., iv. 91 ; v. 

 28 {Sloanea). 



8 Whence Forgetvna (Bocq., in Adansonia, 

 vii. 49), a genus of Guinea, sought by us in vain 

 in the Museum of Paris and distinct on account of 

 its parietal placenta, but it seems not to have 

 been preserved (ex B. H., Gen., 9S7). 



9 Acre., Guian., 585, t. 234. — LiMK., III., 

 t. 479.— DC, Prodr., i. 516.— E>dl., Gen., n. 

 4361. — Trichocarpus SCHEEB.. Gen., n. 923. — 

 Dasynema Schott (ex Speexg., Syst. Cur. 

 Post., 408). — E>'DL., Gen., n. 5362. — Bocq., in 

 Adansonia, vii. 49. — Adenolasium Pee-l., 

 Sym. Bot., 39, t. 27. — ? Myriochata DC, 

 Prodr., i. 515. 



10 OiEST., in rid. Medd. Kiobenh. (1856), 

 27. 



