198 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



scales. Anthers 2-locular, rimose ; exterior or all oxtrorse. Gernien 

 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style erect, distinct, thickly o-lobod, 

 stigmatiierous at apex ; lobes obcordate-ovate, reflexed, 2 -fid, stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Capsule 8-coecons ; cocci 2-valved; seeds 

 allniminous smooth exarillate. — A tree ; iudumentnm simple ; leaves 

 alternate exstipulate petiolate entire penninerved ; flowers ' axillary 

 to upper leaves or terminal, subsolitary or in few flowered (spiu-ious ?) 

 racemes.^ ( Warm America^ N. and S.^) 



40. Crotonogyne J. Muell.* — Flowers dioecious. Male calyx 

 gamophyllous, scarcely unequally broken, valvate. Petals 5-7, con- 

 cave, inwardly at base hirsute with glands ; pra^floration contorted. 

 Glands 5-7, glabrous thick, unequally fusiform, alternating with 

 petals. Stamens 3 times more numerous than petals, verticillate, 3- 

 serrate, 5-7 exterior evidently shorter opposite petals, same number 

 alternating with these larger ; and the same number quite interior 

 also opposite petals ; filaments connate at base only, afterwards free ; 

 anthers 2-locular, introrse, 2-rimose. Female calyx thick, 5-partite ; 

 lobes unequal furnished at margin with 2-6 verricose glands de- 

 pressed scutillate ; sestivation imbricate. Petals (male) 5-6 slightly 

 thicker, caducous ; prtefloration contorted. Disk hypogynous an- 

 nular membranous subeutii'e. Germen 3-locular. Style erect 

 afterwards 3-partite ; lobes 4-partite, teeth subulate reflexed. Ovules 

 in each cell solitary obturated ; micropyle extrorse superior. Cap- 

 sules 3-coccous ; seed approaching arillate. — A shrub, scantily lepi- 

 dote-squamose ; leaves alternate petiolate penninerved reticulate-veined 

 above base patellate-glandular ; stipules 2 ; male flowers in axillary 

 interrupted spicate glomerules ; female long pedicellate in few-flowered 

 (4-6) axillary racemes.^ {Trop. West Africa.'^) 



41. Manniophyton J. Muell.' — Flowers dioecious; receptacle 

 rather convex. Male calyx valvate, unequally 2-3-broken. Corolla 

 high gamopetalous lu'ceolate, shortly 5-lobed. Glands 5, alterni- 

 petalous thick. Stamens co (12-20), filaments fi-ee unequal; an- 



1 Purpurescent whitish vQlose. ' habit, a speoieb. Crotonis coh. Eut,-op'ue longo 



' A genus with male flowers ; recalls some reced., sed calyx masc. irreg. rumpendus ct 



Sixaeete. stam. in alabastr. recta." (M. Aeo.) 



'Spec. 1. G. nutans Rohk. he. cit. ^ Spec. 1. C. Manniana M. Aro. loc. fit. 



* In Flora (1864), 535 ; Prodi: 720. ' In Flora (1864), 530; Proclr. 719. 

 ' " Charact. fore onmes ut in Crotonc, nee 



