190 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



in number, opposite sepals alternating mth stamens round thick 

 rutliment of gyupcceum and shortly inserted. Stamens free ; filaments 

 refracted-incurved ; anthers in bud when younger, extrorse ; cells 

 adnate to margin of rather wide connective, scarcely erect, introrse, 

 and finally versatile. Sepals in female flowers 5, longer, deciduous. 

 Gormen 3-locular, surrounded at base by shortly lu'ceolate disk, 

 sometimes furnished with 1-5 staminodes. Style at apex thickly 3- 

 lobed ; lobes short 2 -fid, ovules in cell solitary obturate. Capsule 

 globose 3-coccate. — Trees ; juice milky ; leaves alternate, petiolate 

 2-stipulate entii-e, penninerved ; flowers in axillary and terminal 

 racemose cymiferous clusters, the female in central cymu'le short 

 and thick pedicellate.^ {North Brazil/'') 



24. Cunuria H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; sejials 5 in 

 female flower rather thicker, imbricate. Stamens 10, 2 -seriate 

 round rudiment of gynreceum ; filaments connate at base ; the ex- 

 terior shorter ; anther introrse, 2-rimose. Female floral disk evo- 

 lute, the margin divided into G acuminate teeth (staminodes ?). Gor- 

 men 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle extrorse superior thickly 

 obtui'ated ; styles 3-partite branches thick widely 2-lobed recurved. 

 Fruit capsular, 3-coccate ; seeds exarillate. — A tree (or shrub ?) ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate ; limb entire coriaceous penninerved, 2 -glandular 

 at base ; male flowers cymose, the female congested in glomerules at 

 the apex of the branches involucrate with bracts. {North Brasil}) 



25. Mischodon Thw.^ — Flowers dioecious ; receptacle convex. 

 Sepals 6, 2-seriate imbricate. Stamens 6, opposite sepals ; filaments 

 free, inserted outside below rudimentary capitate 3-agonal germeu ; 

 anther extrorse or sublaterally 2-rimose. Germen free, 3-locular ; 

 cells 1-ovulate, styles 3-partite lobes dilated at apex sub-2-lobed. 

 Capsule 3-coccate ; seed smooth exarillate. — A ramified tree ; younger 

 branches sub-4-agonal puberulate ; leaves opposite or 3-4-nate 

 simple penninerved petiolate ; male flowers in slender ramified ter- 

 minal racemes and axillary to the upper leaf ; the female in thicker 

 terminal slightly ramified racemes. {Zeylania.^) 



' A genus not diffeiing from Elateriospennnm. Bn. loc, cit. — Clusiopliyllum Spruceaimm M. Aho. 



3 Spec. 2, 3. H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 286. loc. cit. 



^ In Adansonia, iv. 287.— M. Aro. Prodr. ^ In Hook. Journ. {'\.i5i),'iQ^,i. \<i'&; lliitim. 



im.—Clmiopluiniim M. Akg. in Flora (1864), PI, Zci/l. 275.— H. Bn. Eiqyhorb. 335.— M. Arg. 



.518. Prodr. 1125. 



* C. Spruceana H. Bn. loc, cit. — Micraiidra ' Spec. 1. M. Zeylanicum Tirff. loc. cil. 

 Ctmiiii H. Bn. Uc. cit. — Pogottophoia Cimuii H. } 



