268 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



(evergreen) sessile or semi-amplexicaul ; flowers pedunculate cymose; 

 peduncle compressed, 3- or oo. flowered; bracts subfoliaceous {Trop 

 .In/erica, Ltd. Arch}). 



18. Caraipa Aubl. 2 — Flowers nearly of Bonnetia ; stamens some- 

 times connate at base ; anthers short, introrse, versatile ; connective 

 produced at apex in pit, glandular. Germen 3-locular; style at 

 apex thick stigmatiferous, shortly 3-lobed; cells 3; effete often 1, 

 2 ; ovules in each cell 2 or more rarely 3, descending ; micropyle 

 extrorse superior. Capsule 3-quetrous, septicidal 3-valved ; valves of 

 endocarp finally separating from exocarp ; columella 3-quetrous or 

 3-winged. Seeds solitary, flat ; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons 

 large flat, emarginate at base or subarticulate, embracing superior 

 radicle. — Trees ; leaves alternate, petiolate, penninerved, crowded 

 with small transverse veins ; flowers 3 in clusters often corymbose, 

 simple or compound, axillary or terminal {Tropical America*). 



19. Mahurea Aubl. 6 — Flowers of Caraipa; petals contorted, 

 more rarely imbricated. Stamens cc, scarcely connate at base ; an- 

 thers oblong subbasifixed ; connective glandular produced, hollow at 

 apex. Germen perfectly or imperfectly 3-locular ; style more or 

 less dilated stigmatiferous at apex ; ovnles co, linear, oo-seriate, 

 imbricated downwards. Capsule septicidal above ; columella short ; 

 seeds oo, linear membranous ; embryo exalbuminous straight. — 

 Trees ; leaves alternate, often petiolate ; stipules small, usually very 

 caducous or (as it seems) flowers 6 in terminal racemes, usually elon- 

 gated, scantily ramified cymiferous (Troj). South America 7 ). 



1 Spec. 3, of which 1 is Asiatic. — Vahl, St/mb. Spec, i. t. G5. — Walp., Rep., i. 371 ; ii. 802 

 But., ii. t. 42 {Hypericum). — A. Gray, Amer. Ann., i. 121 ; vii. 375. 



Expl.Exp.,Bot.,\.2,l'&{Ploiarium). — Miq., Fl. 4 Guian., 558, t. 222.— J., Gen., 434.— 



hid. Bat., i. p. ii. 490 (I'loiarium). — Til., in Desrouss., in LamJc. Diet., iii. 679. — Cam- 



Ann. So. Nat., ser. 3, viii. 340. — Walp., Rep., bess., in Mem. Mvs., xvi. 411, t. 1 C. — DC, 



ii. 801; v. 132 (L'loiarium), 133; Ann , i. 121. Frodr., i. 557. — Spacji, Suit, d Buffon, iv. 71. 



2 G-idan., i. 561 (part.), t. 223, fig. 3, 4.— J., — Endl., Gen., n. 5422.— Benth., in Journ. 

 Gen., 334. — Cnois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 163. — Linn. Sec., v. 64. — Chois., in Mem. Gen., 

 Cambess., Mem. Temstr., t. 18. — Endl., Gen., xiv. 158. — B. H., Gen., 188, n. 30. — Bonnetia 

 n. 5120. — Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc., v. 61. Schreb., Gen., 363 (nee Mart.). 



— B. H., Gen., 188, n. 29. fi Pink, handsome. 



3 Sometimes large white sweet-smelling; pe- ' Spec. 3, 4. Tul., in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, 

 tals whitish, unsynnnetrical, in prajfloration exter- viii. 340. — Walp., Rep., ii. 802 ; Ann., i. 122; 

 nally virescent at margin. vii. 376. 



4 Spec, ad 8. Mart. & Zbcc, Nov. Gen. el 



