EUTAGBM. 



67 ? Pitavia Mol. 1 — Flowers polygamous or dioecious ; receptacle 

 very convex. Sepals 4, connate at base, imbricated, deciduous. 

 Petals 4, alternate, longer, imbricated. Stamens 5, inserted with 

 perianth, 2-seriate ; oppositipetalous shorter ; filaments free, subu- 

 late ; anthers ovate, introrse, 2-rimose. Grynaeceum inserted at 

 summit of much thickened glandular receptacle, beyond insertion 

 of stamens; germens 4, free, oppositipetalous, dorsally glandular 

 without ; styles springing from internal angle of germen at a 

 greater or less height, afterwards coalescing in column, 4-lobed, 

 stigmatiferous at apex; ovules usually 2 (in male flower 1, 2, or by 

 abortion 0), descending; micropyle extrorse. Drupes : 1-4, inde- 

 hiscent ; flesh thick; putamen thin, 1-spermous ; seeds oblong; 

 testa crustaceous ; " albumen . . . r r) ; embryo straight ; cotyledons 

 oblong, foliaceous ; radicle short." — A very glabrous free ; leaves 

 opposite or 3-nate, shortly petiolate, simple, sinuate-crenate, sub- 

 enerved, pellucid-punctuate, odoriferous ; flowers in axillary cymes, 

 ramified, bracteate and bracteolate, 2. 3-chotomous 3 (Chile,. 



68. Pentaceras Hook, r* — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 convex, produced beyond insertion of perianth and androceum in 

 thick obconical column. Sepals 5, small. Petals same in number, 

 alternate, much longer, glandular-punctuate, valvate. Stamens 10, 

 inserted with petals, 2-seriate ; oppositipetalous 5, shorter ; fila- 

 ments subulate, glabrous, finally exserted ; anthers oblong, introrsely 

 2-rimose, caducous. Gynaeceum plac-d at summit of receptacle ; 

 germens 5, free, oppositipetalous, apex produced in obtuse gland ; 

 ovules in each 2, superposed, descending ; micropyle extrorse, supe- 

 rior ; styles inserted at internal angle of germen, about middle, 

 afterwards twisted into slender column, stigmatiferous, not thickened 

 at apex. Fruit carpels 5, or fewer by abortion, subdrupaceous, 

 produced on both sides in wide membranous nerved wing ;' endo- 

 carp subligneous : seeds in each 1, 2; testa thick, glabrous; 7 albu- 

 men scanty, fleshy; embryo straight; cotyledons subovate. — A 



1 Chil., ed. 2, 2S7. — Dox, in Pdinh. W. S>marv.bea on account of tbe disk, and structure 



Phil. Jjurr.., siii. 241.— Exdl., Gen., n. 5969. of aryiiEeceum, differs by epunctuate leaves. 



— B. H., Gen., 2;,»7, n. 49. — G-ihezia B. A Spec. 1. P. punctata Mol., loc. cit. — 



Pav., Prodr., 56, t. 35; Sy-t., L 97.— A. JvBB., C. Gat, Fl. Chil., i. 4>4.— Walp., Rep., i. 519. 



ia Jle„i. Mia., \. ' ..25, fig. 37. — fl i punctata R. & Pat., loc. cit. 



- Very bitter. 5 Gen. 298, 991, n. 54. 



3 A _■ . - inucb better placed among the ! Whence recalling those of Ailanttu. 



: Nigrescent. 



