BUT ACE JE. 485 



filaments finally extrorse, 2-rimose. Carpels 3, 4, oppositipetalous, 

 inserted within disk ; germens subtree, dorsally gibbous j styles 

 coalescing in common column, at apex stigmatiferous capitate, 3-4- 

 lobed ; ovules in germens 2, finally ascending ; micropyle introrse, 

 inferior. Fruit cocci 3, 4, dry, ligneous, outwardly winged upwards, 

 afterwards samaroid, and finally solute ; seed elongated ; embryo 

 albuminous ; cotyledons straight ; radicle terete. — A rather glabrous 

 small tree ; leaves opposite, alternate, 3-foliolate ; folioles obovate, 

 obtuse, glandular-punctuate ; flowers 1 in pedunculate ramified ter- 

 minal and axillary cymes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate (N. Granada 2 ). 



60. Lunasia Blanco. 3 — Flowers dioecious, usually 3-merous. 

 Sepals 3, sometimes connate at base, inserted on shortly conical 

 receptacle. Petals 3, alternate, longer, valvate. Stamens 3, alterni- 

 petalous (in female flower sterile); filaments free, short; anthers 

 short, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen free (in male flower rudimentary, 

 minute) ; cells 3, oppositipetalous, afterwards dorsally produced in 

 rather thick obtuse wing ; style erect, 3-fid stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 ovule solitary in each cell, inserted at internal angle, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit capsular, obpyramidal ; cocci 

 connate at internal angle, dorsally produced in wings, straight, 

 truncate at apex (inwardly dehiscing?). Seed solitary in each 

 coccus, descending, oblong ; embryo . . . ? — Furfuraceous-lepidote, 

 pellucid-punctulate shrubs ; branches angular ; leaves alternate, long 

 petiolate; petiole thick at apex; limb elongated, membranous, 

 penninerved ; male flowers small, in axillary capituliferous racemes ; 

 the female on alternate rachis solitary or in scanty glomerules 

 {Ind. Arch."). 



61. Hortia Vandell. 5 — Flowers hermaphrodite; calyx obconi- 

 cally cupuliform, 5-dentate or 5-crenate. Petals 5, longer, free, 

 coriaceous, inwardly barbellate at middle, valvate; apex reflexed. 

 Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted round angular 5-lobed disk. 

 Germen free, 5-locular ; cells oppositipetalous ; style short, conical, 



1 Minute. ' iv - 519 > fc - l7 > 18 ( ex H - Bn - loc - «*•)•— B > H > 



2 Spec, l! II. Plceana Tttl., loc. cit.—Tn., in Gen., 299, 991, n. 58—Mi/tiUcoccus Zoll., in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, xiv. 320.— Walp., Ann., i. MiQ., FL Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 387. 



158. 4 s P ec - !' 2 - 



3 Fl de Fill})., 783. — Endl., Gen., n. 5 Ex Vandell., in Ecem. Script. Era*., 188.— 

 5S88 3 — H Bn Ft Ge». Fttphorbiac, 668 DC, Frodr., \. 732.— A. Juss., in Mem. Mus., xn. 

 (Diosme^.-MvELu aeo., in DC. Prodr., xv. 489, t. 22, fig. 30.-Spach, Suit, a Bvffon ii. 346. 

 sect. ii. 1259.— ZaMuisia Pl., in Hook. Journ., —Endl., Gen.,a. 6000.— B. H., Gen.,301, n. 64. 



