434 NATURAL HISTORY OF TLAXTS. 



shrubs ; leaves alternate, opposite or 3-nate, petiolate, 1-3-foliolate 

 or imparipinnate ; flowers in spikes or simple, much elongated ra- 

 cemes, terminal or axillary ; pedicels below middle or at apex 

 bracteolate {Trop. and Suhtrop. Cont. and Ins. America}). 



58. Esenbeckia H. B. K. 2 — Flowers nearly of Philocarpus, 4, 

 5-merous ; petals imbricated or valvate (Metrodoretf). Stamens 4, 5, 

 outwardly inserted below subentire disk, or between alternipetalous 

 lobes ; anthers short, often 2-dymous, mucronate. Carpels 4, 5, 

 oppositipetalous, in 4, 5-locular germen more or less high, connate, 

 dorsally at apex granulate or tuberculate ; style inserted at summit 

 of depressed germen, stigmatiferous capitate subentire or lobed at 

 apex ; ovules in cells 2, descending ; micropyle extrorse, superior. 

 Capsule subglobose or depressed, smooth {Kuala*) or oftener echinate 

 or muricate, septicidally 5-coccous ; cocci 2-valved ; endocarp more or 

 less solute, elastically 2-valved. Seeds oblong ; hilum linear ; thick 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryoes often unequal, 2, 3 ; radicle 

 superior, short. Other characters of Philocarpus. — Pellucid-punctuate 

 trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, opposite, 1-3-foliolate ; petiole flat 

 or winged, sometimes dilated at base {Metrodorea), and including 

 axillary bud ; flowers 5 in ramified cymiferous racemes, axillary or 

 terminal 6 {Trop. and Subtrop. Cont. and Ins. America 1 ). 



59? Helietta Tul. 8 — Flowers (nearly of Esenbeclcia) 3, 4-merous; 

 sepals connate at base, imbricated. Petals longer, imbricated, finally 

 reflexed. Stamens equal in number to petals, outwardly inserted 

 below concave G-S-crenate disk, free ; anthers at summit of reflexed 



1 Spec. 5, 6. Nees & Maet., in Nov. Act. 4 Kaest. & Tb., in Linncea, xxviii. 429. 



Nat. Cur., xi. 176, t. 19. — Tul., in Ann. Sc. 5 Small, sometimes rather purple, nigrescent. 



Nat., ser. 3, vii. 284. — A. Geay, in Unit. St. K 6 A genus perhaps scarcely distinguished from 



Expl. Exp., Hot., i. 331. — Gkiseb., Fl. Brit. Pilocarpus except by habit and character of 



W.-Ind , 135. — Tr. & Pi., in Ann. Sc. Nat., inflorescence. 



ser. 5, xiv. 306.— Walp., Rep., i. 501 ; Ann., \. 7 Spec, ad 25. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 



154; iv. 411. vii. 246, t. 655.— A. S. H., PL Us. Bras., t. 4 



3 Nov. Gen. et Spec, vii. 246, t. 655.— (Evodia); PI. Rem., 149; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 



A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., xii. 486. — Schott, 79. — Maet., Nov. Gen. et Spec, iii. 80, t. 232, 



Rutac, 13, t. 7.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 233.— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 135.— 



343.— Kndl., Gen., n. 5997.— B. H., Gen., 299, Tukcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 440.— Pohl., 



ii. 60.— I\,l, m/,ri/on A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., PI. Bras., ii. t. 128.— Nees, PI. Off., Suppl., t. 



xii. 519, t. ^.—Colythrum Sciiott, Rutac, 9, 91.— Te., in Ann. Sc. Nat., se'r. 5, xiv. 306. — 



18, t. 5, fig. 7. Walp., Rep., i. 501; Ann., ii. 247; iv. 411; 



8 A. S. II., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 81, t. 16.— vii. 528, 529 {Kuala). 



A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., xii. 187.— Endl., 8 In Ann. Sc. Nat, scr. 3, vii. 280.— B. H., 



Gen., n. 5998. -Pathe, Organog., 09, t, 22. Gen., 301, n. 66. 



