TEBN8TBCEMIA0EJE. 261 



or less long winged at apex ; embryo exalbuminous, nearly straight 

 or oblique ; cotyledons ovate or flat (Polyspora 1 ), sometimes slightly 

 undulate-plicate ; radicle superior short. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate (evergreen), entire or crenate ; flowers pedunculate, soli- 

 tary, axillary or collected at summit of twigs ; bractlets 2-5, inserted 

 on sometimes elongated peduncle {North America, Trop. Asia, Lid. 

 Arch. 2 ). See p. 237. 



3. Haemocharis Saltsb. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; perianth and 

 androceum of Gordonia. Germen 5-10-locular ; styles short diver- 

 gent or stigmate wide sessile distinct ; ovules in each cell 4- go, 

 descending. Capsule thin, or oftener woody oblong loculicidal ; colu- 

 mella persistent ; seeds co, winged at apex ; embryo exalbuminous, 

 straight ; cotyledons oblong flat ; radicle short superior. — Trees or 

 shrubs, glabrous or hirsute ; leaves alternate ; flowers in upper axils 

 subsessile 4 or subterminal 5 {Trop. America, Ind. Arch. 6 ). 



4. Steuartia Catesb. 7 — Flowers 5, 6-merous, nearly of Thece (or 

 Gordonia) ; germen 5-locular ; styles 5, distinct {Malachodendron 8 ) or 

 oftener long connate {Eusteuartid) ; ovules in each cell 2, oblique 

 ascendent. Capsule ligneous-crustaceous, loculicidal ; seeds naked 



1 Sweet, Rort. Brit., 61. — Carria Gaedn., nom. Laplacece, quaiu, adjecta tertia spec, 

 in Calc. Journ. of Nat. Hist., vii.7. — Anthe- asiat. cum quarta cubensi, a Hcemocharide 

 ischima Korth., Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot., 137, t. Salisb. disting., sed cliaract. nos eft'ugit. Ha- 

 27. — D'pterospermnm Geiff.. Notul., ix. 561 bitus, calyx, still, etc., baud differuut." (B. H., 

 (ex B. H.). loc. tit.). 



2 Some 20 species, of vvbich 2 are American. 6 Twelve species, of wbich nine are American. 

 Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 138, 140 (Pofy^ora). A. S. II., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 299.— Maet. & 

 — A. Geay, Man., ed. 5, 104.— Chapm., Fl. S. Zucc, Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 106, t. 66, 67.— 

 Unit. States, 60. — Benth., Fl. Hongk., 29. — Moeic, PI. Nouv. Amer., t. 11. — A. Rich., Fl. 

 MiQ., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 489. — Thw., Cub., t. 26. — Getseb., in Mem. Amer. Acad. 

 Enum. PL Zeijl., 40.— Hook, f., in Trans. Linn. (1860), 166; Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 104.— A. 

 Soc, xxiii. 162. — Bot. Mag., t. 4019 {Puly- Geay, Amer. Fxplor. Fxped., Bot, 213. — 

 spora). — Walp., Rep., i. 374 ; ii. 802; Ann., ii. Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 490; Suppl., i. 

 177 ; vii. 367. 482.— Tb. & Pi , in Ann. Sc. Nat,, ser. 4, 



8 Par. Bond., n. 56. — Chois., in Mem. Gen., xvii. 268. — Walp., Sep., i. 372; ii. 801; v. 



xiv. 142 (wbere reasons are more fully given 132 ; Ann., i. 121 ; ii. 177 ; iii. 833 ; vii. 367 



for preferring the generic name). — Laplacea (Baplacea). 



H.B. K.,Noo. Gen. et Spec.,v. 207, t. 461.— DC, 7 Nat. Hist, of Carol, etc., iii. 13 (1743). 



Prodr., i. 527. — Cambess., in Mem. Mus., — L., Gen., n. 817 (perp. Stewartia).— J., Gen., 



xvi. 407, t. 1 A.— Spach, Suit, a, Buffon, iv. 292. — PoiR., Diet., vii. 340; Suppl., v. 219; 



76.— Endl., Gen., n. 5416. — B. H., Gen., III., t. 593.— DC, Prodr., i. 528. — Spach, 



186, n. 23. — Wickstroemia Schead., in Gcett. Suit, a, Buffon, iv. 78. — Cambess., in Mem. 



Anz. (1821), 710 (nee Speeng.;. — Lindleya Mas., xvi. 406. — Endl., Gen.,n. 5423. — Chois., 



Nees, in Flora (1821), 209 (nee K-). in Mem. Gen., xiv. 136. — Sluartia B. H., 



4 Handsome or ordinary, recalling Gordonia. Gen.,18o, n. 17. — H. Bn., in Pager Fain. Nat., 



5 " KoETHAiiSiUS (in Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot.) 266. 



gen. 2 vindic. : Laplaceam H. B. K. (Koeth., 8 Cav., Diss., v. 302, t. 158. — DC, 



luc. cit., 136, t. 26), et Closaschimam { Koeth., Prodr., i. 528. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 



loc. cit., 139, t. 28), Choisycs has 2 junxit sub 77. 



