BUT ACE M. 483 



shrub, pellucicl-pimctuate ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; rachis 

 thinly winged ; folioles opposite, ao-jugate, linear-oblong, sessile, 

 obtuse, entire ; flowers small, in axillary or terminal subdichotomous 

 or by abortion 1 -parous, sometimes foliate, subsessile, ebracteolate 

 {Mexico 1 ). 



56. Megastigma Hook, f. 2 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 small, conical. Sepals 4, small, acute. Petals 4, longer, membra- 

 nous, imbricated. Disk thick, sometimes subglobose, attenuated at 

 base, fleshy-glandular. Stamens 8, inserted below disk, of which 4 are 

 oppositipetalous, shorter ; filaments free, glabrous ; anthers subcor- 

 date, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 2-locular, 2-dymous (or more rarely 

 3-locular) ; style short, afterwards dilated in large subglobose, ob- 

 scurely 2, 3-lobed stigmatiferous head ; ovules in each cell 2, sub- 

 collaterally descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit . . . ? — 

 Unarmed shrubs, glandular-punctuate, odoriferous ; leaves alternate, 

 imparipinnate ; folioles oo-jugate, subopposite ; flowers 3 in compound 

 cymiferous racemes ; pedicels slender, bracteolate at base (Mexico, 

 Guatemala''). 



57. Pilocarpus Vahl. 5 — Flowers usually hermaphrodite; recep- 

 tacle short, usually depressed. Calyx short, 4-5-dentate or sub- 

 entire. Petals 4, 5, longer, 3-agonal, patent, reflexed, prsefloration 

 valvate or slightly imbricated. Stamens same in number, alternate ; 

 filaments inserted outside below annular often thick accrescent disk, 

 free, subulate, incurved in bud ; anthers short, rather wide, introrse, 

 versatile, 2-rimose. Carpels 4, 5, oppositipetalous, free or connate 

 at base, usually immersed in disk ; styles same in number, free to a 

 greater or less height, afterwards in erect column, stigmatiferous, 

 capitate- 5-lobed dilated at apex; ovules in each germen 2, subhori- 

 zontal or descendent ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Cocci 4, 5, 

 distinct, lcculicidally 2-valved ; endocarp solute, elastically 2-valved. 

 Seeds usually solitary, ovoid ; embryo exalbuminous, fleshy ; radicle 

 short, retracted between thick cotyledons. — Pellucid-punctuate 



1 Spec. 1. P. boronioides Hook. F., he. oil. fig. 29.— Space, Suit, a Buffo i, ii. 314. — 



2 Gen., 299, n. 57. Endl., Gen., n. 5999.— A. S. H., in Bull. Soc. 



3 Small, white. Pkilom. (1823), 130 : PI. Rtm. Bres., i. 145, t. 



4 Spec. 2. H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 331. 16 ; Fl. Bras. Me?:, i. 82, t. 17.— B. II., Gen., 

 3 Ecloff., i. 29, t. 10.— DC, Prodr., i. 728.— 29J, n. 59. 



A. Jtxss., in Mem. Mm., xii. 488, t. 22, 



i i 2 



