362 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



1G? Schuurmansia I>i..' — Flowers nearly of Sauvagesia ; sepals 

 5, equal or slightly unequal, praefloration much imbricated. Petals 

 subequal, convolute. Staminodes 5, linear or subulate, subcon- 

 formed to filaments of disk co, exterior smaller and slighter. Fila- 

 ments of fertile stamens 5, short, free, erect ; anthers oblong-linear, 

 dehiscing at apex of pores or subintrorsely or laterally by longitudinal 

 clefts. Capsule nearly of Sauvagesia, septicidal 3-valved. Seeds cx> ; 

 testa membranous, dilated in orbicular wings ; embryo axile, albu- 

 minous, cotyledons very short ; radicle terete. — Glabrous trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate or approximate at summit of twigs, entire 

 or serrulate ; stipules small ; flowers in compound terminal racemes 

 {Indian Archipelago 2 ). 



17? Neckia Korth. 3 — Flowers nearly of Sauvagesia ; sepals sub- 

 equal, imbricated. Petals 5, equal ; prsefloration convolute. Sta- 

 mens 3-morphous ; exterior cr>, small, setaceous or glanduliform at 

 apex; interior to 10, clavate, base connate in tube with fertile sta- 

 mens ; filaments very short, inserted at summit of tube between 

 staminodes. Germen nearly of Sauvagesia ; placentas parietal 3, 

 oo -ovulate ; style simple, erect, apex stigmatiferous. Capsule at 

 apex septicidally, 3-valved. Seeds co, not winged.- — Glabrous shrubs 

 and undershrubs ; leaves alternate, serrulate ; stipules subulate, 

 rigid ; flowers axillary, long-pedunculate {Indian Archipelago*). 



18. Lavradia Vell. 5 — Flowers nearly of Sauvagesia ; sepals sub- 

 equal or unequal ; praefloration much imbricated. Petals 5, equal, 

 convolute. Stamens 5, fertile, alternipetalous ; staminodes 6 out- 

 wardly connate in conical entire or 5-10-dentate tube, including 

 sexual organs. Anthers subsessile, ovate or oblong-linear ; cells 2, 

 subintrorse or laterally rimose. Germen from base to apex 1-locu- 

 lar, or at base 3-locular ; placentas parietal 3 ; ovules on each oo, 

 oblique ; style simple, apex stigmatiferous, obtuse. Fruit capsular, 



1 Mils. Lvgd.-Bat., i.177, t. 32.— B.H., Gen., Fl. Sum., 159.— Walp., Ann., ii. 67; vii. 



120, n. 20. 221. 



- Spec. 2. Hook, f., in Trans. Linn. Soc., 5 Ex Vandkll., in Soem. Script., 88, t. 6, 



xxiii. 1")7. — Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 117. — fig. 6. — A. S. H., in Mem. 31us., xi. 107, t. 



Wu.i'., Ann., ii. 68 j vii. 220. 7-10; PL Rem. Bras., 69, t. 4, fig. 6, t. 5-8; 



3 In Ned. Kruidk. Arch., i. 358.— B. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., ii. 111.— DC, Prudr., i. 314.— 

 Gen., 120, n. 21. Endl., Gen., n. 5051.— Pateh, Fam. Nat., 91. 



4 Spec. 2, 3. Hook. F., in Trans. Linn. Soc, — B. H., Gen., 120, n. 19. 



xxiii. 158. ^-Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 118; 8 Disk petaloid g.imophvllns, ex PATEB, loc. cit. 



