378 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



apex stigmatiferous at apex, simple, not dilated; placentas 5, or 

 more rarely 4, parietal, more or less prominent, sometimes inwardly 

 contiguous ; ovules in each ce, 2-seriate, ascending-, crowded. Cap- 

 sule incompletely 4, 5-celled, septicidally 4, 5-valvcd ; placentas some- 

 times separating ; seeds co, linear, small ; testa pellucid, produced 

 in filiform sheath ; embryo albuminous, straight. — Large glabrous 

 trees ; secondary branches annulate ; leaves alternate, large, coria- 

 ceous, oblong-ovate ; base narrow, crenate ; nerves distant, arched 

 or substraight ; secondary nerves crowded, subtransverse ; stipules 

 squamiform or sepaloid, inserted high up the petiole, sometimes 

 inwardly furnished with filaments at base ; flowers 1 in large terminal 

 ramified cymiferous racemes 2 (Trop. Bast. S. America'). 



9. Blastemantlius Pl. 4 — Flowers nearly of Godot/a ; sepals 5, 

 passing externally into 2-5- or more rarely co, 2-stichous, imbricated 

 bracts, the smaller lower; 5 closely in prsefloration imbricate, deci- 

 duous. Petals 5, narrow, contorted or convoluted. Stamens fertile 

 about 10, secund declinate, surrounded externally by staminodes 

 5-20, subulate or filiform, unequal ; filaments short ; anthers erect, 

 elongate-linear, laterally 2-sulcate, rostrate, 2-porous at apex. Germ en 

 subexcentric, stipitate, fusiform, tapering into rostrate style, simple 

 stigmatiferous at apex ; cells 3-5, incomplete ; ovules go, 2-seriate, 

 inserted on placentas, recurved outwardly at margin, ascending, im- 

 bricated. Capsule fusiform, attenuated on both sides, rather terete, 

 rostrate at apex, septicidally 2-valved; endocarp of each cell subpy- 

 reniform, subpergamentaceous, interior longitudinally hians ; seeds co, 

 linear ; embryo . . . ? — Glabrous trees ; leaves alternate, coriaceous ; 

 nerves very thin, parallel ; stipules (?) above leaves dentiform, deci- 

 duous ; flowers 6 in terminal and supra-axillary simple and compound 

 cymiferous racemes, springing from squamous buds {North Brazil, 

 Guiana'). K 



10. Pcecilandra Tul. s — Flowers nearly of Godoya (smaller); sepals 



1 Rathev large, handsome, yellow. 5 Leaving on the top of the pedicel, after the 



2 Gen. very approximate to Godoya. decay of the budlike calyx, scars like sepals. 



3 Spec. 4. R. & Pav., Si/st., 102 ; Fl. Per. 6 As to corolla and stamens neatly like 

 ined., v. t. 359 {Godoya). — H. B. K., Nov. Ouralea, buds oblong gemmiform. 



Gen. et Spec., vii. 277 (Marcgravia). — Te. & ' Spec. 2. MLiBT. & Zvcc, Nor. Gen. et 



Pl., in Ann. So. Nat., si'r. 4, xviii. 274. — Spec, i. 118, t. 74 {Godoya). — Walp., Ann., 



Seem., Toy. Her., Bot., 97.— Walp., Ann., i. i. 177. 



178; iv. 421. 8 I„ Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, viii. 342. — Pi., 



4 In Hool-. Land. Journ. v. 644. — B. II., see Linden, 63. — B. II., Gen., 320, n. 10. 

 Gen., 320, n. 9. 



