460 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or auriculate at base, introrsely 2-rirnose. Disk elevated conical- 

 tubular, longer than germens. Germens 5, oppositipetalous free, 

 1-locular; styles same in number inserted at summit of internal 

 angle, sometimes cohering in column, widely capitate stigmatiferous 

 at apex ; ovules in each cell 2, descending ; micropyle extrorse supe- 

 rior. Fruit (surrounded by calyx) of 5 cocci, 2-valved ; endocarp 

 solute elastically 2-lobed. Seeds in each 1, 2, subreniform ; testa 

 crustaceous, tuberculate or muricate, within wide hilum and near 

 chalaza marked with orbicular opercule ; embryo scantily albuminous ; 

 cotyledons much plicate-convolute j dorsal exterior involving ventral ; 

 radicle superior incurved. — - Glabrous shrubs simple or slightly 

 ramified ; leaves against the apex of stems or branches crowded 

 alternate elongate-lanceolate, 1-foliolate entire; flowers hypophyllus 

 or on peduncles lateral to leaves drawn beyond axil and more or less 

 long connate, with branches sometimes leaf-bearing, alternately 

 cymose {Brazil, Guiana, Columbia, Mexico). See. p. 385. 



7. Almeidea A. S. H. 1 — Mowers regular or subregular; calyx 

 short, 5-dentate, slightly imbricate. Petals 5, 2 erect ; attenuated at 

 base, sometimes inwardly foveolate, erect, imbricate. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous, free ; filaments complanate, inwardly above middle 

 canaliculate, above barbate, subulate at apex ; anthers oblong, in- 

 trorsely 2-rimose, finally versatile. Disk shortly tubular, and gynse- 

 ceum of Erythrochiton. Fruit capsular ; cocci free, 1-5, 2-valved, 

 1-spermous ; endocarp solute ; seed nearly of Erytlirochiton. — Trees 

 or shrubs ; leaves alternate or at summit of branches opposite petio- 

 late, 1-foliolate, entire, glandular-punctuate ; flowers 3 in compound 

 racemes, bracteate ; pedicels 2-bracteolate {Brazil*). 



8 ? Spiranthera A. S. H. 5 — Flowers subregular (nearly of Almei- 

 dea) ; petals 5, elongate-linear, pubescent, sometimes slightly curved, 



1 In Bull. Soc. Philom. (1823), 129 ; PI. 4 Spec, ad 10. Walp., Rep., i. 499 ; Ann., i. 



Rem. Bres., i. 142, t. 15 ; FL Bras. Mer., i. 154 ; ii. 246 ; iv. 410 ; vii. 506. 



85, t. 18.— DC, Prodr., i. 729.— A. Juss., in 5 In Bull. Soc. Phil. (1823), 130; PI. Rem. 



Mem. Mus., xii. 492, t. 23, fig. 33.— Spach, Bras., 147, t. 17; FL Bras. Mer., i. 43.— 



Suit, a, Buffon, ii. 318. — B. H., Gen., 284, n. DC, Prodr., i. 728.— A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., 



2. — AG., Theor. Syst. PI., t. 19, fig. 10. — Aruba xii. 892, t. 23, fig. 3.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, 



Nees & Maut., in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 152, ii. 347.— Endl., Gen., n. 5988. — B. H., Gen., 



t. 19, 27, 29 (nee Attbl.). 283, n. 1. — Terpnanthus Nees & Maet., in 



2 Sometimes slightly fleshy. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 152, t. 19. 



3 Handsome, red, lilac, or sometimes bluish. 



