356 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or shrubs ; leaves alternate, crowded ; stipules 2, lateral ; flowers 

 axillary to upper leaves, sometimes to inconstant or caducous bracts, 

 solitary ; stipules laterally persistent ; pedicels short, braeteolate 1 

 {Sandwich Ins.*). 



4. Binorea Aubl. 3 — Flowers regular or subregular, 5-merous ; 

 sepals imbricated. Petals sessile or very shortly unguiculate, equal 

 or subequal, imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; filaments 

 free, or more or less connate, appendiculate or naked at back ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose ; connective produced beyond cells, free, 

 approximate or cohering in rings. Germen 1-locular; placentas 3, 

 1- co-ovulate ; style straight, stigmatiferous at apex, disk sometimes 

 formed of 5 free glands {Scyphellandraf). Fruit dry, or sometimes 

 outwardly fleshy or baccate, indehiscent (?) or dehiscing with diffi- 

 culty (Lasiospermum? Gloeospermum 6 ), or much oftener elastically or 

 simply dehiscing {JEurinorea), sometimes externally covered with setas 

 very densely and softly echinate {Medusa 1 ). Seeds few, externally 

 glabrous or rarely gossypinous {Lasiospermum) ; testa coriaceous or 

 crustaceous ; albumen fleshy. — Trees, or more frequently shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, entire or serrate ; stipules 

 small; flowers 8 solitary, or oftener in simple or ramified racemes, 

 sometimes cymiferous, axillary or terminal {All Trap, and Subtrop. 

 regions [except Australia ?~f) . 



1 Bracteoles often analogous to sepals, margin in JExs. Jav. n. 2979 (De gener. nom. prior, cfr. 

 paler subscarious, much approximate to genus H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. fasc. 12). 



Minor ea sect. Penta/oba, differs in petals con- 4 Thw., Ennm. PI. Zeyl., 21. — B. H., Gen., 



nivent at base, and connective not produced. 120, n. 17. 



2 Spec. 2, 3. A. Geat, loc. cit. 5 H. Bn., in Adansonia, loc. cit. 



3 Guian., i. 235, t, 93 (1775).— J., Gen., 6 Te. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 

 287. — Bote., Diet., vi. 211.— Lamk., III., t. 128. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, loc. cit. — Gloio- 

 131. — Minna Auht,, loc. cit., 237, t. 9J. — J., spermiim B. H., Gen., 119, n. 13. — Endl., 

 loc. cif.—Yom., Did., vi. 196 ; III., t. 135.— Walp., Ann., vii. 219. 



Conohoria Aubl., loc. cit., 239, t. 95.— Lamk., 1 Lotje., Fi. Cochinch. (<'d. 1790), 406.— 



Did., ii. 96. — Conoria J., loc. cit. — Paxsoura Endl., Gen., n. 5329. 

 Aubl., op. cit., Suppl., 21, t. 380. — Pentalola K s Small, usually yellow or whitish. 

 Lottb , Fl. Cochinch. (1790), 154. — Physi- 9 Spec. 40, of' which 20 are American. 



fhora Sot.axi)., mss. (ex R. Be., Congo, 410). — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 387, t. 491 



AUodeia DuivTh., Hist. Veg.Afr. (1804), 55, {Conohoria).— A. S. H., PI. Us. Bvas., t. 10; 



t. 17, 18.— Ging., in DC. Prodr.. i. 312.— PI. Hon. Bres., t. 319; Fl. Bras. Mer., ii. 



Spach, Butt, ci Buff on, v. 497.— Endl., Gen., 148 {AUodeia). — Hook., Icon.,t. 63 {Conohoria). 



„. 6047.— Payee, Fam. Nat., 108.— B. H., — Moeic, PI. Nouv. A mer., t. 46, 47.— Seem., 



Gen., 118, 970, n. 11.— Alsodea Maet. & Zvcc, Toy. Her., Bot., t. 14 {Alsodeia).— Te. & Pl., 



Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 27, t. 19-21. — Ceran- in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 126 {Alsodeia). 



thera Pal. Bkauv., Fl. Omar, et Bin., ii. — Gbiseb., FL Brit. W.-Ind., 26. — IVl., in 



(1807), 10, t, 65, 66.— Dripax Noe., mss. (ex Ann. Sc Nat. ser. 5, ix. 303 {Alsodea).— Miq., 



Endl.).— Vareca Roxb., Fl. Ind., i. 647.— FI. Ind.-Bat., Suppl., i. 160.— Oliv., Fl. Prop. 



Prosthesia Be., Bijdr., 866. — Dioryetandra Afr., i. 106 {Alsodeia). — Hook. f. & Tiioms., 



Hassk., lidzia, 125.— Imhofia Zoee. & Mob., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. 186 {Alsodeia). — Waep., 



