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7. Peridiscus Benth.' — Flowers hermaphrodite, apetalous; sepals 

 4, 5, unequal, sub valvate, finally patent-reflexed. Stamens cr, hypo- 

 gynous inserted round base of disk ; filaments adpressed below to 

 grooves, incurved at apex, finally patent ; exterior sometimes thicker ; 

 anthers suborbicular introrse, rimose at margin. Germen orbicular- 

 depressed, 1-locular, all round nearly to middle thickened in annular 

 vertical sulcate disk ; styles 3, 4, short, distinct, tapering at apex ; 

 ovules 6-8, inserted at apex of cells pendulous ; micropyle extrorse 

 superior. " Young fruit obovoid fleshy." — A lofty tree ; leaves large, 

 integerrimus coriaceous lucid ; flowers small in simple racemes, 

 sometimes umbelliferous, fasciculate at old nodes of small branches. 

 {North Brazil 2 ). 



8. Leetia Lcefl. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous; receptacle 

 rather wide. Sepals 4, 5, wide subpetaloid, much imbricated, finally 

 often reflexed. Stamens 10-15 {Ccmngcc"), or sometimes oo, hypo- 

 gynous on eglandular disk, or with exterior subperigynous insertion ; 

 filaments free ; anthers introrse short or ovoid. Germen free, 1- 

 locular ; stjde simple, apex stigmatiferous, capitate, sometimes wide 

 sessile {Tiiiodict), or shortly 3-lobed. Berry tardily 3-valved, interior 

 often resinous-pulpous ; seeds externally pulpous, sometimes aril- 

 late ; testa coriaceous ; embryo albuminous, straight ; cotyledons 

 wide, foliaceous, or rather thick. — Small trees ; leaves alternate, ser- 

 rate or crenate, pellucid-punctuate, more rarely coriaceous epunctuate 

 {Scyjiholcelia 6 ) ; flowers axillary or terminal, glomerate or cymose, 

 subcorymbose ; bractlets small, sometimes (Scypholcetid) larger, 

 thick, connate in subentire or crenate calyciform involucel {Trop. 

 America 7 ). 



9 ? Idesia Maxim. 8 — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; receptacle 



1 Gen., 127, n. 13. »Speuce, and E. coriacea Speuce (ex Benth., 



2 Spec. 1. P. lucidus Benth., loc tit. Limited loc. cit.). 



to Venezuela. 7 Spec, ad 10. Sw., FL Ind. Occ, 950. — 



3 It., 252.— L., Gen., n. 661 (part.).— DC., H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 355.— Pcepjp. & 

 Prodr., i. 260.— Endl., Gen., n. 5071 (uart.). — Endl., Nov. Gen. et Spec, ii. 86, t. 274 

 Clos, in Ann. Sc Nat , ser. 4, viii. 241. — (Samuda). — Makt., Nov. Gen. et Spec, ii. 165. 

 Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc„ v. Suppl., 82. — — Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 22 (Zuelania). — 

 B. H., Gen., 126, n. «).— Thamnia P. Be., Jam., Til. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 102.— 

 245, t. 25. — Helmingia Adans., Fam. des PI., Waip., Amu, vii. 225. 



ii. 167 (nee. W.). s In BM Acad ^ SCi ]> eters0 ^ x . (1866), 



4 Grjseb., Erf. Fl. Trop. Amer., 27, 29. 485; Mel. Biol., vi. 19.— B. H., Gen., 972, n. 

 6 Benst., PI. Jav. Par., 192 (not.). — Light- 18 a. (Genus imperfectly known by dry speci- 



footia Sw., Prodr., 83 (nee Luf E.). mens, much resembling Samyda by insertion of 



6 Type of sec. 2 species, namely, L. cupulata stamens.) 



