320 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



receptacle, 1 -Jocular ; style simple tubular, apex stigmatiferous, sub- 

 entire or 3, 4-lobed ; placentas parietal, same in number, oc-ovulate. 1 

 Ilcrrv sub^lobose, with often apiculate style, sometimes dehiscent at 

 apex ; seeds oo ; testa crustaceous ; embryo albuminous, straight or 

 slightly incurved ; cotyledons rather wide. — Shrubs or more rarely 

 trees ; s leaves entire or serrate ; stipules small or oftener rather 

 large, foliaceous ; flowers 8 fasciculate or in short spikes or racemes, 

 sometimes corymbose or subumbellate 4 {South Brazil and CAM*). 



23. Pyramidocarpus Oliv. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 shortly cupulate. Sepals 3, 4, gradually proceeding to 4-10 coria- 

 ceous petals, and perigynously inserted with them, much imbri- 

 cated. Stamens 20-30, perigynous ; filaments erect, short ; anthers 

 oblong subbasifixed ; cells linear, marginally adnate to rather flat 

 connective, longitudinally rimose. Grermen free, 3-agonal, 1-locular, 

 attenuated into 3 small styles stigmatiferous at apex ; placentas 3, 

 parietal, alternating with styles, cc-ovulate. " Fruit large, 7 very 

 thick, coriaceous, wide, cubical or pyramidal ; angles thickened, ro- 

 tund ; faces carinate at middle ; style short cuspidate, 3, 4-valved, 

 oligospermous. Seeds large, wide, oblong or subrotund, angular ; 

 testa crustaceous, rugulose, covered with thin pulp ; albumen 

 copious, fleshy ; embryo ? — A small glaberrimous tree ; small 

 branches terete, smooth, annulate above base of leaves ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate, coriaceous, oblong, integerrimus, bright ; petiole 

 thickened at apex ; stipules fallen ;" flowers 8 in dense short axillary 

 spike ; 9 pedicels very short articulated ; bracts very short {Tropical 

 Western Africa} ). 



24. Abatia E. & Pav. 11 — Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous ; re- 



1 Ovules incompletely anatropous, sometimes Don, in Fdinb. N. Phil. Journ., x. 117. — Hook. 

 subortliotropous ; micropyle introrse superior; * & Aen., Beech. Voy. JBot., t. 4. — Clos, in C. 

 coats double. In A. crassifolia (cultivated in Gay Ft. Chil., i. 191. — Bot. Mag., t. 5178.— 

 our gardens) superior bud much younger than Bot. Beg., t. 1788. — -Walp., Rep., i. 101; Ann., 

 others. i. 62 ; vii. 226. 



2 Very bitter. 6 In Journ. Linn. Soc, ix. 171. — B. H., 



3 Virescent, or (if the anthers are coloured) Gen., 799, 1007, n. 8. 

 abundantly golden. 7 Of the size of Avellana. 



4 A genus certainly allied to Calantica and 8 " Buds small, globose, glabrous." 

 Jlomalium, according to Payer (Fam. Nat., 9 Inferior, younger. 



110), " cseterum inter Bixineas {Flacourtieas) et 10 Spec. 1. P. Blachii Oliy., loc.cit. — Mast., 



Samydaceas (Banareas) quasi medium." (B. H., in Oliv.Fl. 1'rop. Afr. ii. 495. 



loc cit.). U Prodr., 78, t. 14.— DC, Prodr., i. 503.— 



5 Spec, ad 12. K. & Pat., Syst., 137.— Don, in Fdinb. N. Phil. Journ. x. 121.— Endl., 

 Pcepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. et Spec, ii. 1. 167. — Gen., n. 6160.— Pi., in Hook. Lond. Journ., iv. 



