TEEN STRCEMI ACE &. 269 



20* Haploclathra Benth.' — Flowers nearly of Caraipa (or Ma- 

 hurea) ; anthers long, linear. Germen (of Caraipa) 3-locular; ovule 

 solitary in each cell, incompletely anatropous, ascendent. Capsule 

 3 -agonal septicidal ; axis persistent ; " seeds oblong, acute on both 

 sides." — Trees ; leaves opposite ; flowers in terminal opposite rami- 

 fied cymiferous racemes {Trqp. South America"). 



21 ? Poeciloneuron Bedd. 3 — " Sepals 5, equal. Petals 5, con- 

 torted. Stamens oo (to 20), free or connate at base in ring or very 

 short tube, entire, 5-lobed ; anthers linear, erect, basifixed ; connec- 

 tive inappendiculate. Germen 2-locular ; styles 2, subulate ; ovules 

 in each cell 2, ascendent. Fruit . . . ? — A tree ; leaves opposite, cori- 

 aceous glabrous penninerved ; veins crowded parallel ; flowers 4 in 

 terminal panicles" (Bast. Mount. India*). 



22. Marila Sw. 6 — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; sepals imbricated. Petals 

 very caducous, imbricated. Stamens co ; filaments short, slender ; 

 anthers erect, introrse ; connective glandular, produced beyond cells, 

 simple or 2-lobed. Germen 4, 5-locular ; style at apex stigma- 

 tiferous thick, scarcely lobed ; ovules oo, or -seriate, imbricated down- 

 wards. Capsule elongated, 4, 5-agonal, septicidal ; seeds oo, base 

 and apex fimbriate-pilose ; embryo exalbuminous, thick, short ; 

 cotyledons subequal to radicle. — Trees ; leaves opposite (evergreen) ; 

 flowers in axillary racemes (Trop. America 7 ). 



V. PELLICERIEJE. 



23. Pelliceria Tri. & Pl. — Flowers regular; sepals 5, short, 

 membranous subpetaloid (coloured), much imbricated ; petals 5, 

 much longer than calyx, much imbricated, caducous. Stamens 5, 

 hypogynous alternipetalous ; filaments free, slightly dilated at 



1 Tn Journ. Linn. Soc., v. 61. — B. H., Gen., xvi. 411, 1. 17 A. — DC, Prodr., 1. 558. — Endl., 

 189, n. 82. Gen., n. 5421. — Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, 



2 Spec. 2. Mabt. & Zucc, Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 64. — B. H., Gen., 189, n. 31. — Scyphaa 

 i. t. 64 [Caraipa). Pbesl, Symb., i. 7, t. 4. — Monoporina Pbesl, 



3 In Journ. Linn. Soc, viii. 267, t. 17.— Rostl., ii. 277 (ex Endl.). — Anisosticte HkS.ih., 

 B. H., Gen., 981, n. 32 a. Ord. Nat., 294, not. (ex Endl.). 



4 Whitish yellow. 7 Spec. 4. Pcepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 



5 Spec. 1. P. indicum, Bedd., loc. cit. iii. t. £13. — Gelseb., .F/. Brit. W.-Lnd., 111. — 



6 Prodr. Fl. lad. Occ, 84.— Poie., Bid., Te. & Pl., in Ann. Sc Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 258, 

 Suppl., iii. 590. — Cambess., in Mem. Mus., Walp., Sep., i. 374; v. 133 ; vii. 376. 



