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imbricated. Stamens 5, fertile, free, externally inserted below disk ; 

 filaments long subulate, glandular-verrucose ; anthers introrse, 2- 

 rimose, versatile. Gynseceum of Erythrochiton ; germen stipitate ; 

 stipes included in vagina of disk. Capsule 2-5-eoccous; cocci, seeds, 

 and other characters of Erythrockiton. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, 3-foliolate ; folioles entire, acuminate, glandular- 

 punctuate ; flowers' in slightly ramified terminal cymiferous racemes 2 

 (Brazil 6 ). 



9. Leptothyrsa Hook, f. 4 — Flowers regular ; calyx obconical 

 cupuliform, subentire. Petals 4, long exserted, linear, erect, acute, 

 free at apex, connivent in tube, imbricated, 5 finally patent. Flowers 

 4, alternipetalous ; filaments free, glabrous ; anthers linear, longer 

 than filaments, introrsely 2-rimose. TJrceolate disk and gynseceum 

 (4-merous) of Erythrockiton. Capsule 1-4-coccous; endocarp solute; 

 seeds ovoid, albumen thin ; embryo thick ; cotyledons plano-convex, 

 including radicle. — A glabrous shrub ; 6 stem simple ; leaves alternate, 

 collected at apex of stems, obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, very narrow 

 at base, articulate ; flowers 7 in cymiferous racemes (North Brazil*). 



10. Toxosiphon H. Bn. 9 — Flowers 5-merous ; calyx 5-phyllous, 

 sepals long 3 angular (coloured), free, valvate, persistent round fruit. 10 

 Petals 5, alternate, in tubular arched corolla, cohering at middle by 

 means of staminai filaments, base and apex free ; limb not dilated, 

 imbricated, exterior densely villous. Stamens 5, alternipetalous fila- 

 ments free complanate, externally more or less adherent to corolla ; 

 antherless 5; fertile 2, anthers large, oblong, erect, introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Disk cupuliform, shorter than germen, 5-crenate. Carpels 5, ovules, 

 5-cocci, and seeds of Erythrockiton ; embryo (exalbuminous ?) ; coty- 

 ledons much plicate-convolute. — A glabrous shrub (?) ; leaves alter- 

 nate, collected at summit of branches, long petiolate; foliole 1, 

 articulate, oblong-lanceolate, long narrow at base, acuminate at apex, 

 entire, membranous, penninerved ; flowers 11 in false scanty racemes 

 (growing from the wood) (Mexico 12 ) . 



1 Handsome, fragrant, white. 5 Not valvate at apex, as said. 



2 A genus nearly allied to Almeidea, differing 6 " Socialis." 



in its filaments not inwardly foveolate, or barbate, 7 " Cum pedunculis albis." 



gynaaceum stipitate and leaves 3-foliolate. 8 Spec. 1. L. Sprucei Hook. F., loc. cit. 



3 Spec. 1. S. odoratissima A. S. H., loc. cit. 9 In Adansonia, x. 311. 



Walp., Rep., i. 499. 10 And there not accrescent, greenish veined. 



4 Gen., 281, n. 3. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. " White; calyx in flower reddish. 

 310. ' 2 Spec. 1. T. Lindeni H. Bn., loc. cit. 



