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GENERA. 



I. PAYPAYROLE^. 



1. Paypayrola Aubl. — Flowers regular or subregular herma- 

 phrodite ; receptacle convex. Sepals 5, imbricated. Petals same 

 in number, subequal, free ; claws approximate, or cohering in tube ; 

 limbs finally patent ; praefloration closely imbricated. Stamens 5, 

 alternating with petals ; filaments connate in short tube ; anthers 

 at the summit of tube sessile muticous, introrse, longitudinally 

 2-rimose. Germen, free, 1-locular; st}de straight, apex stigma- 

 tiferous ; placentas parietal 3, oc-ovulate. Capsule coriaceous, locu- 

 licidal, 3-valved ; endocarp cartilaginous separating elastically from 

 exocarp. Seeds <x>, subglobose ; testa coriaceous; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo axile straight. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire ; 

 stipules small ; flowers in spikes or terminal and axillary racemes 

 (Irqp. America). See p. 340. 



2. Amphirrox Spreng. 1 — Flowers nearly of Paypayrola ; limb of 

 corolla suboblique. Stamens 5, free ; filaments short, flat ; con- 

 nective produced beyond cells in linear-subulate membrane. Other 

 characters as in Paypayrola. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate or crowded 

 at summit of twigs, entire or serrulate ; flowers 3 in terminal pe- 

 dunculate racemes, 1-3-nate of cc -flowered cymes (Trop. America 3 ). 



3. Isodendrion A. Gray. 4 — Flowers nearly of Paypayrola ; 

 corolla slightly oblique. Stamens 5, free ; connective not produced. 

 Germen 1-locular ; style stigmatiferous at clavate, curved, anterior 

 apex ; placentas parietal 3 ; each 3-4-ovulate. Capsule coriaceous, 

 3-valved ; endocarp not separating ; seeds obovoid. — Small trees 



1 Si/st., Cur. Post., 51, 99. — Endl., Gen., n. 8 Large, handsome; claws of petals elongated 



5016. — Payee, Fam. Nat., 109. — B. H., Gen., into false tube, approximate ; lobes patent. 



118, n. S.Spathularia A. H. S., PI. Rem. 3 Spec., 2, 3. A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., ii. 



Bres., 317, t. 28. — Braddleya Velloz., Fl. 148 (Spathularia). — A. Gray, Unit. St. Expl. 



Flum., 93 ; Atl., ii. t. 140. — Amphirroge Fxp., Bot., i. 88. 



Reichb., PJlanz. Sgst., 209. 4 Unit. St. Fxpl., Bot., i. 92, t. 8, 9.— B. H., 



Gen., 118, n. 10. 



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