506 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



filaments 5-sulcate ; gerraens free, 2-5-ovulate ; ovules curved, in- 

 serted at internal angle, 2-seriate ; funicle ascending or descending ; 

 styles coalescing among themselves, free, thick, reflexed, stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. Capsules 5 (or fewer), free, compressed, 2-valved ; 

 endocarp chartaceous, separating from thin exocarp ; seeds in each 

 solitary or few, compressed, suborbicular, furnished with very thin 

 suborbicular radiate striate concentric and veined marginal wing ; 

 embiwo scantily albuminous, curved ; radicle terete, superior. — 

 Small trees (not bitter) cinereo-pubescent ; leaves alternate, 2- 

 pinnate ; folioles multijugate, glandular-punctuate ; ' flowers 1 in 

 large wide ramified compound cymiferous racemes, winged above 

 (Brazil 2 ). 



102. Gneoridium Hook, f. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; 

 sepals short, imbricated. Petals much longer than calyx, imbri- 

 cated. Stamens 8, inserted with perianth, 2-seriate; filaments free; 

 oppositipetalous 4 shorter, sometimes wanting ; anthers suborbi- 

 culate, introrsely 2-rimose. Gymeceum inserted at summit of 

 receptacle, produced beyond insertion of perianth and stamens in 

 short thick 8-agonal column ; germen of solitary subexcentric carpel 

 1-locular; style gynobasic, inserted slightly above the base of 

 germen, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules 2, collaterally inserted 

 slightly above base of cell, ascending ; raphe dorsal. Drupe globose, 

 pisiform, coriaceous; seed 1, ascendant; testa subcrustaceous ; em- 

 bryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick, plano-convex. — A glabrous 

 shrub ; sap bitter, subacrid ; leaves opposite or subverticillate, 

 simple, linear, entire, coriaceous, subfleshy, glandular-punctulate, 

 glandular at margin, exstipulate ; flowers axillary, usually solitary ; 

 peduncle 2-bracteolate 4 {California?). 



103. Cadellia F. Mtjell. 6 — Flowers 5-merous (more rarely 6, 7- 

 merous) ; sepals imbricated. Petals larger alternate, imbricated. 

 Stamens 10, 2-seriate, hypogynous ; filaments free, subulate; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 1 or 5, free, oppositipetalous, 



1 Outwardly sericeous, bitter. 5 Spec. 1. C. dumosum Hook, f., loc. cit. — 



a Spec. 2. Walf., Ann., i. 174. Pitavia dumosa Nutt., mss. (ex Toeb. & Gk., 



3 Gen., 312, n. 18. — Pitavia sect. Gas- Fl. N.-Amer., 215). 



trostyla Tokr., in Emor. Pep., Bot., 43. 6 Fragm. Phyt. Austral., ii. 25, t. 12. — 



4 "Gen. Suriance proxiin., Cneuro quoque B. IL, Gen., 313, 992, n. 19. 

 affine." (Hook. F., loc. cit.) 



