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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



cated. Stamens 6 (Palentinia 1 ) — oo ; filaments with squamules same 

 in number, alternate elongate, glabrous or villous, connate to greater 

 or less height between themselves and with base of perianth, some- 

 times short and connate at base round antheriferous filaments 

 {Euffuidonid) ; anthers introrse, apex sometimes penicillate. Germen 

 free, 1-locular ; placentas parietal, 3-6, 2-qd -ovulate ; style short, 

 capitate, stigmatiferous undivided at apex {Iroucana,- Pitumba* 

 Vcdentinia), or at greater or less height 3-fid (P/jjarea,* Crateria h ), 

 sometimes large subpeltate {Zuelania*') . Fruit subbaccate pulpous 

 (Iroucana, Zuelania), almost dry [Craterici) or dry (Pitumba), at a 

 greater or less height 4-valved ; valves seminiferous at middle, some- 

 times boat-shaped (P/jjarea). Seed oblong or angular ; aril fleshy ; 

 embryo albuminous ; cotyledons flat, oblong or orbicular ; radicle 

 straight, terete. — Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, 2-stichous, 

 entire, serrate or subspinose-dentate, usually coriaceous, pellucid- 

 punctuate or lineolate, more rarely impunctuate (Pipa?-ea) ; petiole 

 articulate at base ; stipules 2, linear, often small ; flowers 7 solitary, 

 axillary, usually in umbels (false) or axillary cymes ; pedicels arti- 

 culated, bracteolate ; bracts sometimes {Anavinga) connivent round 

 flowers in involucel {All Trop. and Subtrop. Regions*). 



12. Osmelia Thw. 9 — Flowers nearly of Guidonia, 4, 5-merous ; 

 sepals much imbricated. Stamens 8-10, inserted with scales, same 

 in number, oblong, villous, alternate. Gynoeceum free ; germen lanu- 

 ginose, 1-locular ; placentas 3, parietal, pauciovulate ; styles 3, short 

 incurved, capitellate stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule subcoriaceous, 

 3-valved. Seeds few ; testa membranous ; aril fleshy (red) ; embryo 



1 Sw., Prodr., 63 (1797) ; Fl. Ind. Occ, 689. 

 —DC, Prodr., i. 618.— Endl., Gen,, n. 5631. 



2 Aubl., Guian. (1775), i. 385, t. 127. — 

 Vareca GjEBTN., Fruct., i. 290, t. 60. 



3 Aubl., Guian., ii. App., 29, t. 385. — Ana- 

 vinga Lamk., III., t. 355. — G^etn. f., Fruct., 

 iii. 240, t. 224. — Melistaurum Foest., Char. 

 Gen., 143, t. iZ.—Lindleya H. B. K., Nov. 

 Gen. et Spec, v. (part.), t. 480 (nee vi. 239).— 

 Antigona Velloz., Fl. Flum., iv. t. 145. 



4 Aubl., Guian., ii. App. 30, t. 386.— 

 G.eetn. F., Fruct., iii. t. 224. — DC, Prodr., i. 

 316.— Tb. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 

 116. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 252 (Piparea 

 gen. forte propriuni, ex Pl. loc. cit.), 



6 Peks., Fnchir., i. 485.— Chcetocrater R. & 

 Pay., Prodr., 61, t. 36. 



6 A. Rich., Fl. Cub., 88, t. 12.— Thiodia 

 Geislb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 22 (ncc Benn.). 



7 Whitish, or virescent, yellow or more rarely 

 pink ; often small. 



8 Spec. 75, of which 30 belong to the Old 

 World. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 366.— 

 Cambess., in A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer., ii. 229. — 



< A. Geat, Amer. Fxpl. Exp., Bot., i. 79. — 

 Benth., Fl. Hongkong., 121 ; Fl. Austral,, iii. 

 308.— Wight, Icon., t. 1849.— Vent., Ch. de 

 PL, t. 44.— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind„ 22.— 

 Bl., Mus. Lugd.-Bat,, t. 50.— Miq., Fl. Ind,- 

 Bat., i. p. ii. 705. — Tb. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. ser. 4, xvii. 106 (Casearia) 114 (Zuelania). 

 — Walp., Sep., i. 546 ; ii. 828 ; v. 406 j Ann., i. 

 197 ; ii. 276 (Casearia). 



9 Fnum. Pl. Zeyl., 20.— B. H., Gen., 797, 

 n. 2. — Stachycrater Tuecz., in Bull. Mosc. 

 (1858), i. 464. 



