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and au axile embryo with plauo-convex cotyledons and superior 

 radicle. Erijthroxijlon, of wMch some fifty species ^ are known, con- 

 sists of shrubs or bushes fi-om all warm regions. The leaves are 

 alternate, eutii'e, penuincrvcd,'- petiolate, accompanied by intrapetiolar 



Eri/thruxj/Ioii Coca. 



Fig. So. .Intlroceum and gynxL-uum. 



Fig. 87. Fruit. 



Fig. 80. Gyuiuceuia. 



stipules. The flowers are solitary or united in small bunches of cymes 

 in the axils of the leaves or the bracts which upon some branches 

 take their place. 



Beside Erijthroxylon has been placed Aneulophus Africana^ which 

 with nearly the same perianth has petals longer and more reflexed, 

 traversed within upon the mid-line by a prominent rib, a monadelphous 

 diplostemonous androceum, and an ovary with tlu'ce or foiu- biovu- 

 late cells surmounted by a like number of distinct styles. It is a 

 glabrous sln'ub having opposite leaves with intrapetiolar connate 

 stipules and flowers in axillary cymes. 



HOUMIRI SEEIES. 



Houmiri* (fig. 88-97) has regular hermaphrodite flowers organised 

 nearly like those of Ixonantlies. The convex receptacle bears a 



1 Cav. Bisn. viii. 399.— H. B. K. Nov. Oen. ct 

 Spec. V. 175, t. 453.— A. S. H. PI. Us. Brnss. t. 

 69 ; Fl. Bras. Met-, ii. t. 102, 103.— Deless. Ic. 

 Scl. iii. t. 28.— Wic;ht et Any. I'rndr. i. lOG.— 

 Roxii. Fl. Cmmaiul. t. 88.— Wight, III. t. 48 ; 

 Icnii. t. 97. — A Rich. Fl. Cub. t. 27. — Gkiseii. 

 PI. Bill. W.-Inil. 113.— Uaiiv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. 

 i. 233.— Oi.iv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 273.— Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, i. 283. — IIook. in hot. Mag. Comp. 

 ii. t. 21.— WAi,r. Kip. i. 403 ; ii. 842; Ann. ii. 

 195 ; vii. 403. 



' Often niarkuJ witliiu by a aurlUcc oi' a par- 



ticular colour limited by two curved linos, con- 

 cave on the side of the midrib, and dejionding 

 on the fcstivation of the liml) as in certain 

 species of Teriistrcemiaccai. 



■■• Benth. Oai. 244, 987, n. 8.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. 274. — 'i ? Caueantlim Foksk. Fl. Aiy.- 

 Arub. 91 (c.x Benth.). 



' .'VuBL. Guian. i. 664, t. 225.— H. Bn. in 

 Ad'iusoiiia X. 368. — Iliimiria J. Gci). 435. — DC. 

 I'rndr. i. G19. — Ilumirium Maut. Nov. Gen. ct 

 Spec. ii. 142, t. 198, 199.— Endl. Gcn.n. 5486.— 

 B. H. Gai. 247, n. 2.— II. Bn. in Adanmnia, i. 



