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suriuouuted above by a long meiiibrauous wing, ami encloses under 

 its coats a mucli developed embryo, with short superior radicle, and 

 wide not very thick cotyledons spirally convolute. At present only 

 one Salvertia ' is known. It is a tree from Brazil with resinous 

 thick branches, verticillate, petiolate, simple leaves.^ The 



jmce, 



Catlisthche mhior. 



Fig. 133. Flower (^). 



Fig. 132. Floriferous branch {\). Fig. 134. Long. sect, of flower. 



flowers^ are disposed in ramified terminal racemes, composed of cymes, 

 sometimes uniparous at the apex. 



VoclnjHia (fig. I'i7-131), consisting of trees from tropical America, 

 has all the cliaracters of Salvertia^ but the sepals arc very unequal 

 and the petals are, as we have seen, three in number, the two 

 posterior disappearing ; or sometimes even the anterior petal 

 alone represents the corolla. The Vochysias arc trees with ojiposite 

 or verticillate leaves, accomjianied by small lateral stipules. 

 The inflorescence is in racemes of cymes more or less ramified. 

 Beside them are placed CalUsthcnc and Qualea^ also natives of 



1 S. cinvnllaria'id'ira A. S. H. loc. cit. — - Thick, corincoous, oboval, cnfiro, jicTun- 



Maut. et Zvcc. Xov. Gen. ct Sj.ic. i, 152, t. 93. nerved, e.xstipiiliitc (!'). 



— ? S. Uii/r^i/lnrn roui., P/. 7;™«. ii. 15, t. 1 10. •' White or pink, large, beautil'iil, very 



AVjii.r. iJc/)., i, 09. fragrant. 



