102 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



usually 3, anterior, imbricated (2 posterior wanting). Other 

 characters of Salvcrtia. Seeds sometimes outwardly gossypinous. 

 Glabrous, or tomentose, trees or shrubs ; leaves verticil^ ate or more 

 usually opposite ; stipules small, subulate ; flowers' in sub-simplo or 

 more often ramified cymifcrous racemes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate. 

 {Ti'oj). South America. ") 



3. Qiialea Aubl.^ — Flowers nearly of Voclujsia (or SaJvertia) ; 

 petal 1, anterior ungniculate, usually widely obcordate or obovoid.* 

 Stamens and gynecceum of Salvcrtiea' ; germen incompletely or 

 completely 3, 4-locular ; ovules on each placenta co, 2-seriate oblique, 

 oftener scarcely anatropous, produced above in ascending wing. 

 Capsule loculicidal, 3-valved ; columella usually ; seeds oo , 2- 

 seriate imbricated subascendent, long produced above in a wing. 

 Other characters of Salvertia — Eesinous trees; leaves opposite or 

 verticillate ; petiole 2-glandular at base ; flowers ^ in lateral and 

 terminal racemes often ramified-compound. {Brazil and GuianuS') 



4 ? Callisthene Mart. ^ — Flowers nearly of Qiialea ; germen 

 cells 3, CO ovulate. Capsule ovoid, crustaceous or ligneous, some- 

 times sub-di'upaceous ; endocarp separating fi-om subeoriaceous 

 exocarp and scpticidally, or loculicidally 3-6-valved ; valves solute 

 from thickly 3-agonal semiferous and persistent columella. Seeds co , 

 2-seriale descendent, produced on both sides in a wing; embryo 

 and other characters of Qualea. — Eesinous trees ; leaves sub-i2- 

 stichous, ovate or oblong ; stipules minute ; flowers ^ axillary or 

 lateral, solitary pedunculate. [Brazil?) 



' Larn-e or rather large, teautiful yellow, stamens sometimes large, 2 ; both fertile or one 



fraoriint. more or less petaloid. 



- Spec, about 40. — Maht. et Zucc jVot'. Ccw. * Yellow, pink or blue, rather large, beautiful ; 



et Spec. i. 130, t. 83-92.— Pohl. PI. Bras. ii. 18, petal dcciduou.s. ' 



t. 111-119. — Walp. iff/J. ii. 69 ; ^;/h. ii. 527. « Spec about 2.5Mart. i\'w. Gen. et Sped, t, 



3 Oiiiaii. i. 5, t. 1, 2. — A. S. H. in Mem. 77-81. — V^f.ichk. Fl. JSxoi. t. 232. — Wa-lv. £ep. 



Mus. vi. 26.i.— DC. Prodi: iii. 28.— Endl. Ocii. ii. {Sehiicchia), 915 ; Ann. ii. 527. 



n. 6069.— B. H. Qcn. 976, n. 2.-H. Bn. in 7 Nov. Oeii. et Sj>ee. i. 123, t. 75, 76.— DC. 



Pai/ei- Fain. Nat. 352.— Amphilnc/iia Mart. Prodr. iii. 25.— Endl. Gen. n. G007.— B. H. 

 Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 127, t. 77.— DC. Prodr. iii. ' Oen. 976, n. 1.— H. Bn. in Pai/er Fain. Nat. 351, 



26. — Agardhia Si-ueno. Sifst. i. 4 (nee Cahr. — Cal/isl/ienia HvuEya. Gen. n. 2-]. 



necGR.). 8 Usually small or rather large. 



■• Spur short or in Q. ccalcarata Mart. ' Spec. 5, 6. 

 quiu Sehnechia Kndl. {Gen. n. 6070), with 



