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25? Norantea Aubl. 1 — Flowers nearly of Marcgravia ; petals 

 free or connate at base, much imbricated. Stamens go , or more 

 rarely few subdefmite ; filaments sometimes cohering to petals at 

 base, usually thickened at apex ; anthers innate, caducous, introrsely 

 or sublaterally rimose. Germen free ; apex conical stigmatiferous 

 3-5-radiate ; ovules in cells (usually incomplete) go , inserted on 

 rather thick placenta, usually ascending. Fruit nearly of Marcgravia. 

 — Scandent or epiphytal shrubs, sometimes arborescent ; leaves 

 alternate, sometimes furnished below with 2-seriate curved glan- 

 dules, exstipulate ; flowers 2 in terminal elongated racemes ; bracts 

 axile elevate-connate with pedicel to a greater or less height, some- 

 times inserted below calyx, usually petiolate ; limb sacciform or 

 cuculliform changed into inverse ascidium ; bracts 2, lateral, ana- 

 logous to sepals {Tropical America 71 ). 



26. Ruyschia Jacq. 4 — Flowers nearly of Norantea; stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous. Gynaeceum and fruit nearly of Marcgravia ; cells 

 4-6. — Epiphytal or scandent shrubs ; leaves alternate entire coria- 

 ceous ; flowers 5 in terminal racemes ; bracts inserted at apex of 

 pedicel, 3-lobed ; one lobe ascending, clavate at apex ; alternate 2, 

 lateral situated on and hanging from peduncle; bractlets 2, inserted 

 under flower [Trojncal America 6 ). 



VII. CARYOCAREiE. 



27. Caryocar Allam. — Flowers regular hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 rather convex. Calyx deeply 4-6-fid, much imbricated. Petals 4-6, 



1 Guian., 554, t. 220. — J., Gen., 245. — Suit, a Buffon, vi. 127.— Lindl., Veg. Kingd. 

 Poie., Diet., Suppl., iv. 108 ; III., t. 447.— 403, fig. 284.— Endl., Gen., n. 5459.— B. H., 

 DC, Prodr., i. 566. — Endl., Gen., n. 5460. — Gen., 181, n. 5. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 

 B. H., Gen., 181, n. 4. — Ascium Scheeb., Gen., 127. — Souroubea Aubl., Guian., 244, t. 97. — 

 358. — Schwarzia Velloz., Fl. Flum., v. t. 84. J., Gen., 428. — Surubea Mey/., Prim. Ft. Esse- 



2 Often handsome, red. queb., 119. — Loghania Scop., Introd., n. 1076. 



3 Spec, ad 12. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 5 Often handsome, red. 



vii. 218, t. 647 bis.— Cambess., in A. S. H. Fl. 6 Spec. 9, 10. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 



Bras, liter., i. 241, t. 62. — Mabt., Nov. Gen. vii. 218. — Mabt. & Zucc, Nov. Gen. et Spec, 



et Spec, hi. 179, t. 295, 296.— Tb. & Pl., in iii. t. 292-294.— Benth., Voy. Sulph., Pot., t. 



Ann. Sc Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 372. — Gbiseb., Fl. 29. — Miq., Stirp. Surin., t. 27. — Tb. & Pl., in 



Brit. W.-Ind., 109. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, Ann. Sc Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 376. — Gbiseb., Fl. 



x. 242. — Walp., Rep., i. 398; Ann., vii. 361. Brit. W.-Ind., 110. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 



4 Stirp. Amer., 75, t. 51, fig. 2.— J., Gen., 241.— Walp., Rep., i. 398; ii. 811; v. 145; 

 428.— Poie., Diet., vi. 355; Suppl., iv. 731; Ann., i. 129; vii. 361. 



III., t. 135.— DC, Prodr., i. 556.— Spach, 



