OCHNACE.'E. 377 



inserted on the edges of placenta, recurved on both sides, ascending, 

 anatropous. Capsule coriaceous, acute, 3— 5-angular, 1-celled, sep- 

 ticidally 3-5-valved ; seeds go, inserted on semiseptate margin, sub- 

 imbricated ; testa above or at margin membranous, winged or 

 marginate ; albumen scanty, fleshy ; embryo terete. — Handsome 

 ramified glabrous nitid trees or shrubs ; twigs terete ; leaves alter- 

 nate, coriaceous, serrulate, teeth and apex ciliate ; nerves crowded, 

 parallel, perpendicular or oblique to ribs ; stipules 2, ciliate ; flowers 

 in simple terminal racemes, fructiferous lateral ; pedicels articulate 

 above base, 2-bracteolate (Brazil). See p. 368. 



7. Godoya E. & Pav. 1 — Flowers nearly of Luxeinburgia ; sepals 5, 

 unequal (interior shorter), scarious, base inwardly fimbrilliferous, 

 closely imbricated, deciduous. Petals 5, obovate, convoluto-imbri- 

 cate or contorted. Stamens 10-20, secund declinate ; filaments very 

 short or almost wanting ; anthers erect, declinate ; cells 2, linear, 

 sometimes transversely rugulose (Rutidanthera-), poricidal at apex. 3 

 Germen excentric, shortly stipitate, rostrate, minutely stigmatiferous 

 at apex ; cells 5, incomplete ; ovules oo, ascending, inserted on margin 

 of placenta, reflexed on both side. Capsule more or less completely 

 5-celled, septicidal; valves 5, pendulous from 10-parted axis, finally 

 separating. Seeds od, compressed, ascendent ; embryo? — Fine trees; 

 branches annulate, lenticellate ; leaves alternate, coriaceous, simple 

 {Eugodoycf), stipulate, crenate or serrate, sometimes pinnate"' (Ruti- 

 danthera) ; flowers in terminal axillary simple or ramified cymiferous 

 racemes (Peru ; N. Grenada''). 



8? Cespedesia Goud. 7 — Flowers nearly of Godoya ; sepals 5, 

 small, subequal, much imbricated, deciduous. Petals 5, longer, 

 convolute. Stamens 10— oo, all fertile; sometimes sub-3-seriate ; 

 filaments free, short or elongated, thickened below apex ; anthers 

 basifixed, linear, 4-agonal, sometimes curved, 2-porous or 2-rimose 

 at apex. Germen subexcentric, shortly stipitate, tapering at 



1 Prodr., 58, t. 11; Syst., 101.— DC, i Pl., loc. cit., 596, t. 21, 22. 

 Prodr., i. 558. — ESDI*, Gen., ii. 5127.— Pl., in 5 "Tunc exstipulatis V (B. H.). 



TSook. Load. Journ., v. 597, t. 19-22. — 6 Spec. 2, 3. Tb. & Pl., in Ann. So. Nat., 



B. H., Gen., 319, n. 9. — Godovia Pebs., ser. 1, xviii. 272.— Waxp., Rep., i. 375; Ann., 



EncMrid., i. 467. i. 122, 176. 



2 Pl., loc. cit., 599, t. 19, 20. 7 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, ii. 369. — Pl., in 



3 Pores sometimes prominent pale before Hook. Load. Journ., v. 645. — B. H., Gen., 

 dehiscence. 320, n. 11. 



