368 



.Y.I 777,'. \L mSTOVY OF PLANTS. 



drupe with pulpy sarcocarp enveloping five fibrous stones, in each 

 of winch are one or two descendent seeds. These contain under 

 their coats a fleshy albumen, and an axile, slender, cylindrical 

 embryo, with elongated superior radicle. Euthemia consists of 

 shrubs from Malay asia ; four species 1 have already been described; 

 their habit is analogous to that of Luxemburgia, Sauvagesia, &c. 

 The alternate petiolate leaves are simple, coriaceous, smooth, cut upon 

 the edges in small teeth like a saw, as are those of Oc/tna, with 

 numerous secondary and parallel nerves. The flowers 2 are arranged 

 in terminal leaf-opposed racemes, solitary or geminate in the axil 

 of each bract of the inflorescence, and accompanied by one or several 

 sterile bractlets. 



III. LUXEMBURGIA SERIES. 



Luxemburgia 3 (figs. 386-390) has hermaphrodite irregular flowers 

 with convex receptacle. The calyx is formed of five unequal sepals, 



Luxem b it rgia polya ndra . 



Fig. 386. 

 Bud (■]). 



Fig. 387. *>- 

 Flower (f ). 



Fig. 3S8. 

 Long, sect, of flower. 



often ciliate upon the edges caducous, and arranged in quincuncial 

 prsefloration, 4 and the corolla of five alternate subequal petals im- 



1 Hook., Icon., t. 711. — Hook, f., in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, xxiii. 1G3. — Wai,i\, lief., i. 528 ; 

 v. 60, 400; Ann., i. 179; vii. 544. 



- White or pink. 



' j A. S. H., in Mvm. Mus., ix. 351.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 350.— B. H., Gen., 319, n. 7.-Pl„ 



in Voy. Line!., G2. — Plecimnthera Mart., Nov. 

 Gen. et Spec, i. 39, t. 36. 



4 There are two exterior generally smaller ; 

 and the three interior, often more developed 

 than the others, are besides contorted in the 

 bud. 



