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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ceum is consequently perigynous. The receptacle is accrescent 

 round the fruit, becoming fleshy, and is found surmounted by the 

 persistent divisions of the perianth. In Visnea (fig. 264), the calyx 

 also becomes fleshy, and surrounds the fruit, without adhering to it ; 

 the lower portion only is inserted in the accrescent receptacle, which 

 is thick and quite coriaceous, and surmounted by the persistent im- 

 bricated calyx. 



III. SAURAUJA SERIES. 



Saurauja spectabilis. 



Fig. 265. 

 Inflorescence. 



Fig. 266. 

 Longitudinal section of flower (- 2 ). 



The flowers of Saurauja 1 (figs. 

 265, 266) are hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous and regular. Their 

 slightly convex receptacle bears, 

 first, five unequal sepals, often 

 petaloid, arranged in the bud in 

 quincuncial prsefloration. The pe- 

 tals, the same in number and 

 alternate, free or united at the 

 base into a corolla which falls in 

 one single piece, are also imbri- 

 cated in the bud. The stamens are 

 very numerous, usually united for 

 a short distance between them- 

 selves and with the base of the 

 corolla. The filaments, in other 

 respects free, support a 2-celled 

 anther, introrse, then versatile, 

 dehiscing above by short clefts or 

 pores. The gymeceum is supe- 

 rior ; it is composed of an ovary 

 l with five alternipetalous cells, sur- 



W., in Der. Ges. Natursfr. Berl. n. Scr., 

 iii. (1801), 406, t. 4.— DC., Prodr., I. 525.— 

 Cambess., in Mem. Mus., xvi. 498. — Spach, 

 Suit, a Buffon, iv. 67.— Endl., Gen., n. 5414.— 

 Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 113.— B. H., Gen., 

 184, n. 15.— H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 267 

 —Palava B. & Pav., Prodr. (1794), 100, t. 22 

 (nee Cav.) — Marumia Beinw., Syll. PI. 

 Ratisb., ii. 10. — Reinwardtia Nees., Syll. PI. 



Ratisb., i. 196 (nee Speeng., nee Drm., nee 

 Koeth.). — Apatelia DC, Mem. Ternstr., 34, 

 t. 8. — Deless., Tc. Sel., iii. t. 26. — Blumia 

 Spp.eng., Syst,., iii. 126. — Davya Moc. & Sess., 

 Fl. Mex. ined. (ex DC). — Leucothea Moc. & 

 Sess., loc. cit. — Yanalphimia Lesch., mss. (ex 

 Endl.) — Obelanthera Tuecz., in Bull. Mosc. 

 (1847), i. 147; (1858), i. 245. Dtee, in Fl. 

 Ltd., ii. 286. 



