232 



X.I 77 7/1/, in STORY OF PLANTS. 



are placed: Litdia, having a patera- shaped receptacle, from five to 

 eight sepals, much imbricated, without corolla, a gynseceum analogous 

 to that of Ryania, Casearia, and Scolopia ; Kulrfia, consisting of 



American plants, scarcely distin- 

 guished from Ludia by a slightly 

 more concave receptacle, and the 

 coloured sepals, from three to five in 

 number, which are imbricated, the 

 fruit being fleshy and indehiscent ; 

 Banara, which, with the fruit and 

 flower of Kuhlia, has a calyx of 

 from three to five valvate sepals, 

 and a similar number of petals, 

 similar to the sepals, but imbri- 

 cated ; Ajjhloia, which, with the re- 

 ceptacular cup of Scolopia, and a 

 much imbricated calyx, has only 

 one carpel and one parietal placenta in the ovary; Azara (figs. 314, 

 315), which has the same cup-like receptacle, sepals valvate or 

 nearly so, without corolla, a unilocular ovary with several placentas, 

 but surmounted by a simple style, the fleshy fruit being scarcely 

 dehiscent at the apex ; Pi/ramidocarpas, which has the folioles of the 

 perianth variable in number, three sepals, then from six to ten 

 sepaloid petals passing gradually from the pieces of the calyx to 

 those of the androceum. 



A last subseries, Abafiers, is formed of one single genus Abatia, 

 which has the concave receptacle of Guidonia, tetramerous apetalous 

 flowers, valvate sepals, perigynous stamens, from five to ten in 

 number, or still more considerable, accompanied or not by sterile 

 filiform filaments, the leaves in all the species being opposite, 

 without stipules, and the flowers small, numerous, and arranged in 

 terminal racemes. 



Fig. 314. 

 Flower {{). 



Fig. 315. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



IV. LACISTEMA SERIES. 



Zacisfema,' which seems to us to have been rightly indicated as 

 a reduced type of Bixacea, has flowers (figs. 316-319) united in 



1 S\V., Prodr. (1788), 12; Fl. Lid. Occ, ii. Maet., Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 56, t. 94, 95.— 

 1091, t. 21.— Foir., Diet., Supp]., iii. 232. — Li>dl., 1'c<j. Kingd., 329, fig. 225.— Exdl., 



