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mounted by a style more or less deeply 1 divided into five branches, 

 stigmatiferous at the apex, and often reflexed when their length per- 

 mits. They are sometimes very short, and immediately terminated 

 by a papillose surface. In the internal angle of each cell a large 

 placenta is seen, descending or attached by a kind of short foot in- 

 serted at the middle of its height ; all its dorsal surface is covered 

 with small anatropous ovules, 2 directed in various ways. The fruit is 

 a berry, sometimes almost dry at maturity ; it encloses numerous 

 seeds, lodged in the pulp, and which under their coats present a fleshy 

 albumen surrounding a straight or fornicate embryo, with cotyledons 

 generally short. In certain Sanraujas, which have been generally 

 distinguished under the name of Scapha? the two lateral cells of the 

 ovary disappear ; and there only remains three superposed to the 

 sepals, 1, 2, and 3, and the style has only three stigmatiferous divi- 

 sions. This genus includes some sixty species, 4 although a much 

 larger number have been described. These are trees or shrubs, gene- 

 rally covered with rough, sometimes scaly hairs. They have alternate 

 simple leaves, often dentate like a saw, with numerous secondary 

 parallel nerves. The flowers are axillary or lateral, generally white 

 or pink, sometimes slightly odoriferous, often rather large and beau- 

 tiful, which makes them valued among us for cultivation. They are 

 collected in simple or ramified clusters of cymes, in which each pedicel 

 bears at some distance from the flower two or several bractlets. The 

 genus exists in the warmest regions of Asia, Oceania, and America. 



IV. BONNETIA SERIES. 



Bonneticf (fig. 267) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. The con- 

 vex receptacle bears five imbricated sepals, and five alternate petals, 

 longer, and contorted in the bud. The gynseceum is formed of a 



1 It is a little so in Draytonia (A. Gray, Trans. Linn. Soc, xviii., 159. — Seem., Voy. 

 Amer. Exped., Bot., i. 206, t. 15), of which it Her., Bot., t. 16 ; Fl. Vit., 14.— Th. & Pl., in 

 has been proposed to make a distinct genus. Ann. Sc Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 265. — Bot. May., t. 



2 The youngest being the superior. 3982.— Walp., Rep., i. 370; ii. 801; v. 131 ; 



3 Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 118. Ann. i., 120; iv. 349; vii. 364. 



4 Deless., Ic. Sel., iii. t. 25. — DC, Mem. 5 Mart. & Zucc, Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 

 Ternstr., t. 2-7. — Wall., PI. As. Bar., iii. 1. 148, 114, t. 100 (nee Schreb.). — Nees & Mart., in 

 178. — Hook., Icon., t. 331, 341. — H. B. K., Nov. Acta. Nat. Cur., xii. t. 6. — Cambess., in 

 Nov. Gen. et Spec, vii. t. 648-650 (Palava). — Mem. Mus., xvi. 409. — Endl., Gen., n. 5417. — 

 Benn., PI. Jan. Bar., t. 36, 37. — MiQ., Fl. Lid.- Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 159. — B. H., Gen., 

 Bat., i. p. ii. 478; Suppl., i. 480. — Korth., 187, n. 26. — Kieseria Nees, in Nemo. Beis., i. 

 Verh. Nat. Gesck. Bot., t. 19.— Hook, f., in 104; in Flora (1821), 298. 



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