462 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



11. Galipea Aubl. 1 — Flowers 4- or oftener 5-merous; calyx short, 

 equally or unequally 5-fid or 5-dentate, imbricate. Corolla irregular 

 or more rarely subregular ; leaves below connivent in tube or more 

 rarely connate, valvate or imbricate. Stamens 5-S ; filaments usually 

 adhering to tube of corolla, free at apex ; alternipetalous, antheri- 

 ferous 5 or much oftener 2 ; others antherless, glandular at apex ; 

 oppositipetalous 2, 3, sterile, minute ; fertile anthers oblong, inappen- 

 diculate at base, introrsely 2-rimose. Disk round gynseceum varied. 

 Carpels 4, 5, oppositipetalous ; germens free, style, ovules, fruit, and 

 seeds of Erythrochiton. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 1-7-foliolate ; folioles entire, rarely serrate, pellucid-punctuate, glan- 

 dular or rarely epunctuate ; inflorescence 2 (of Erytltrocldton) axillary 

 or extra-axillary, simple or ramified, cymiferous {Trojo. South-eastern 

 America 3 ). 



12? Ticorea Aubl. 4 — Flowers nearly of Galipea; tube of corolla 

 usuall} T elongated ; limb subregular. Stamens usually 7 ; filaments 

 free or connate, and adnate or cohering to tube of corolla ; fertile 

 usually 2, alternipetalous ; anther cells appendiculate. Other charac- 

 ters of Erythrochiton (or Galipea). — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 or alternate, simple or 1-3-foliolate ; folioles entire, pellucid-punc- 

 tuate ; flowers 5 in simple or more usually ramified cymiferous pedun- 

 culate aphyllous racemes ; inflorescence terminal, lateral or falsely 

 axillary; pedicels bracteate 5 {Brazil, Guiana 7 ). 



1 Guian., ii. 662, t. 269. — A. S. H., in Bull. 2 Flowers large, white, lilac, or pink, sometimes 



Soc. Philom. (1823), 131 ; PI. Bern. Bres., 129, fragrant. 



t. 12-14; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 87.— A. Juss., in 3 Spec, ad 20. H. B. K., PI. AHquin.,n. 59, t. 



Mem. Mus., xii. 493, t. 23, fig. 34.— Spach, 97 (Bonplandia).—T-R. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 



Suit, a Buffon, ii. 351.— Endl., Gen., n. 5990. — ser. 5, xiv. 305. — Bot. Mag., t. 4948. — Walp., 



B. H., Gen., 285, n. 6. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, Rep., i. 499; Ann., ii. 216; vii. 507. 



x. 306. — Raputia Aubl., op. cit., ii. 670, t. 272. 4 Guian., ii. 689, t. 277. — DC, in Mem. 



— Sciuris Schreb., Gen., i. 54. — Pholidandra Mus., ix. 144, t. 8, 9 j Prodr., i. 730. — A. S. H., 



Neck., Elem., 542. — Conchocarpus Mikan, l Pl. Rem. Bres., i. 139, t. 11, fig. D; Fl. Bras. 



Delect., i. t. 2. — Bonplandia W., in Act. Soc. Mer., i. 91. — A. Juss., in Mem., xii. 495, t. 



Nat. Cur. Berol. (1802), 24.— Cv.sparia H., 23, fig. 35.— Exdl., Gen., n.5993.— B. H., Gen., 



Tabl. Geogr. (ex DC, in Mem. Mus., ix. 143). — 285, n. 6. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 308. — 



Angostura Rcem. & Sch., Syst., iv. 188. — Ozopliyllum Scheeb., Gen., n. 1105. — Sciuris 



Lasiostemon Nees & Mabt., in Nov. Act. Nat. Nees & Mart., in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 151, 



Cur., xi. 152, 171, t. 12, 26. — Ravia Nees & t. 18, 20 (part.).— Costa Velloz., Fl. Mum., i. 



Mart., loc. cit., 1(59, t. 19, E, 23, 21.— Aruba t. 48. 



Nees & Mart., loc. cit., t. 28 (nee Aubl.) — 5 White, sometimes yellow-spotted, greenish 



Obentonia Velloz., Fl. Flum., i. t. 46. — Dan- or reddish. 



gervilla Velloz., loc. cit., t. 66. — Rossenia 6 A genus much better made a section of 



Velloz., loc. cit., t. 77. — ? Naudinia Pl. & Galipea. 



Lind., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, xix. 79. — B. H., 7 Spec, ad 10. Walp., Rep., i. 500. 

 Gen., 285, n. 5. 



