492 NATURAL HISTORY OF TLAKT8. 



ramified cymiferous bractcate racemes; pedicels bracteolate (Trop. 

 and Sublrop. Cont. and Ins. America). See p. 403. 



72. Stauranthus Liebm. 1 — Flowers polygamous (?) ; calyx short, 

 4- or more rarely 5-dentate, persistent ; teeth unequal acute. 

 Petals same in number ; alternate much longer rather thick valvate, 

 or inflexed slightly imbricated at margin. Stamens equal in 

 number to petals and alternate, filaments inserted below base of 

 slightly glandular germen, free ; anthers small introrse 2-rimose 

 (sometimes effete). Germen free, 1-locular; style very short after- 

 wards dilated in subsessile wide discoid unequally 4-5-lobed stigma- 

 tiferous head ; ovule solitary descending, incompletely anatropous, 

 more or less laterally inserted ; micropyle extrorse superior. Fruit 

 subbaccate oliviform ; sarcocarp replete with oily glands ; " seed with 

 wide hilum laterally appended to cells ; testa coriaceous ; embryo 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons oblong amygdaloid ; radicle superior." — 

 An evergreen glabrous tree; leaves alternate petiolate, 1-foliolate; 

 foliole entire elliptical-lanceolate penninerved integerrimus coriaceous 

 pellucid-punctuate ; flowers 2 in axillary racemes ; pedicels articulate 

 at base, with small or sometimes foliaceous bracts ; bractlets 

 2 lateral minute glanduliform 3 (Mexico*). 



73. Teclea Del. 5 — Flowers dioecious, 4, 5-merous. Calyx high 

 gamosepalous campanulate, slightly dentate or crenate at apex, 

 imbricated. Petals much longer, slightly imbricated. Stamens 

 alternipetalous, 1 -seriate (in female flower sterile shorter) ; filaments 

 free ; anthers oblong introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flowers 

 conical-subulate sterile), glandular thickened at base, 1-locular; 

 style short, afterwards dilated in wide peltate obtusely lobed stig- 

 matiferous head ; ovules 2, parietally inserted in cells, collaterally 

 descending ; micropyle extrorse superior, blocked by shortly 

 obconical obturator. Fruit drupaceous glandular-punctuate ; puta- 

 men pergamentaceous, l-spermous. Seed descending exalbuminous ; 



1 Nov. PI. Mex. Dec. (in Yidensk. Meddel. more allied to Teclece than to the legitimate 

 (1853), 91).— B. II., Gen., 303, n. 72. Toddalias. 



2 Small, whitish, or virescent. 4 Spec. 1. S. perfuratus Liebm., loc. cit. — 



3 A genus doubtfully placed among the Walp., Ann., iv. 428. 



Aurantiece, " potiusque forsan ad Toddalieas re- 5 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, xx. 90 (1813).— 



ferendum" (B. II.), nevertheless corresponding H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 320. — Asjpidostigma 



iu many respects with Amyris, and much Hochst., in Flora (18-44), 18. 



