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The fruit has an endocarp, separating at maturity from the exterior 

 layers of the pericarp. Maharea, with the same perianth, has elon- 

 gated anthers, almost basifixed, glanduliferous at the apex, and 

 numerous, linear imbricated ovules, disposed in numerous series. 

 The leaves are alternate, while those of Haploclathra are opposite or 

 nearly so, with the same flowers, except that the ovary cells contain 

 but one ascendent ovule. The leaves are also said to be opposite 

 in Pceciloneuroii, which has only two biovulate cells. In Mania, a 

 very nearly allied genus, although it has sometimes been ascribed to 

 another family, the leaves are opposite, as in Pceciloneiiron and Haplo- 

 clathra ; but the tetramerous or pentamerous flowers, disposed in 

 axillary racemes, have petals imbricated and not contorted, as in the 

 preceding genera. The stamens are short, and have their introrse 

 anthers surmounted by a two-lobed gland. The capsular fruit is 

 narrow, elongated, and septiciclal, and the seeds which it contains 

 are prolonged into a fringe at the two extremities. 



V. PELLICEEIA SEEIES. 



Pelliceria 1 (fig. 2GS) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. The 

 short receptacle bears five small free imbricated sepals, and five 

 petals, much longer, imbricated and caducous. The androceum is 

 formed of five alternipetalous stamens. Each of them has a free 

 hypogynous filament, and an elongated anther, with a narrow 

 elongated connective, without the base of which the filament is in- 

 serted ; the anther has two linear cells adnate to the edges of the 

 connective, longitudinally dehiscent. The stamens, nearly of the 

 same length as the style, are each lodged in a longitudinal groove, 

 the surface being hollow. 2 The gynaaceum is superior : it is com- 

 posed of a sessile, articulate ovary, tapering above into a long conical 

 style, the apex bearing two small stigmatiferous teeth, scarcely dis- 

 tinct. The ovary is hollowed into two cells ; 3 but they are very 

 unequal : one of them, much narrower, remaining sterile ; 4 and the 



1 Te. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 3 There should he five, of which four ahort 

 380. — Pelliciera B. H., Gen., 186, n. 21. early in the plant of New Grenada, according 

 Placed by the last of these authors in the tribe to Triana. 



Gordoniece. 4 According to Bentham and Hooker it 



2 In dry specimens we have seen the anthers should enclose a sessile ovule aborting early, 

 detached from these grooves for a variable dis- 

 tance in their upper part. 



