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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



quite free, or at least separate from each other to spread out at an- 

 thesis to a variable distance in their upper part. Ruyschia (figs. 279- 

 281) is also a neighbouring genus, and has the foliage and the inflo- 

 rescence of Norantea, with the axile bracts, often 3-lobed, with in- 

 ferior concavity always raised upon the axillary pedicel even to the 

 insertion of the flower, which has generally a defined isostemonous 

 androceum. 



VII? CAEYOCAE SEEIES. 



Caryocaf- (figs. 282-287), long considered as forming a distinct 

 family, has beautiful flowers, hermaphrodite and regular, of the pen- 

 tamerous type, or more rarely tetramerous or hexamerous. Upon 

 their slightly convex receptacle a gamosepalous calyx is inserted, with 



Caryocar (Saoitari) glabrum. 





Fig. 283. 

 Flower. 





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Fig. 284. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



deep imbricated divisions, and a corolla the petals of which, alter- 

 nate and much larger than the sepals, are also imbricated in the bud, 

 and sometimes united, for a very short distance from their base, with 

 that of the androceum. This is formed of a considerable number of 

 stamens united below into a thick, short tube, after which the fila- 



1 At.j.am., ex L., Mantis.?. (1767), n. 1314. 

 — I., Gen., 135. — Lamk., Diet., i. 640. — DC, 

 Proclr., i. 599.— Endl., Gtn., n. 5642. — B. H., 

 Gen., 180, n. 1. — H. 15n., in Payer Fam. Nat., 

 268.—Pekea Avbl., Quian. (1775), ii. 594, t. 

 238, 239.— PoiB., Diet., v. 146; Suppl., iv. 



343; III., t. 486. — Saouari Attbl., op. cit., 

 599, t. 240. — Rhizololus G.ERTN., Fruct., ii. 

 (1791), 93, t. 98.— CORR., in Ann. Mus., v. 

 394, t. 5. — Acanthocaryx Arrudo do Camara, 

 Disc, (ex Endl.). 



