^30 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



nate entire often coriaceous ; flowers in supra-axillary racemes, 

 lateral or oppositifolious, subumbulate or 1 -laterally glomeruliferous 

 or cymiferous. (Africa, Asia and Trop. Oceania}) 



46. Kummeria Mart.^ — Flowers (nearly of Lasianthem) poly- 

 gamous ; calyx short, 5-clentate. Petals longer, valvate, incurved 

 at apex, marked inside with scarcely elevated lines. Stamens 5, 

 inserted below hypogynous disk ; filaments dilated, contracted at 

 apex above fascicle of hairs ; anthers introrse versatile. Germen 

 laterally surrounded by unequal disk, 1-locular, 2-ovulate ; style 

 dilated into a thick discoid stigmatiferous apex. Fruit drupaceous 

 (nearly of Lasianthera), slightly arcuate ; putamen longitudinally 

 sulcate and costate ; the dorsal costa thicker than the others, ^ 

 testa of conformed seed thin ; albumen fleshy longitudinally 2- 

 partite ; embryo apical very small. — A tree ; leaves alternate cori- 

 aceous entire rather scabrous ; flowers * in compound cymiferous 

 axillary racemes ; cymes contracted, finally after anthesis divaricate^ 

 from elongate branches. ( Guiana^ Bor. BrasilJ') 



47. Pleurisanthes, H. Bn. 7. — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Lasianthera), 4-o-merous ; calyx short gamo- 

 phylloid-dentate. Petals slightly longer, valvate, coadunate at 

 apex in spuriously gamopetalous corolla cu-cumcissous at base. ^ 

 Stamens 4, 5 alternipetalous, soon deciduous ; filaments subulate 

 inserted below small annular disk ; anthers introrse ; cells discrete 

 adnate rimose, finally patent. Germen sessile (in male flower effete 

 or abortive) shortly conical, crowned at apex with shortly filiform 

 stigmatiferous papillae ; ovules 2 ; one often very small or dis- 

 appearing. Fruit? — A tree; 9 leaves alternate petiolate ovate 

 subcoriaccous peuuinerved reticulate-veined ; flowers ^'■' composite- 

 racemose very crowded on lateral sometimes leaf-bearing branches ; 



1 Spec, about 10. Wight, Icon. t. 953, 954 of some Umbcllifera:. 

 {Gomp/iaiidra}.— 1'hw. Eniim. Fl. Zcyl. 43 ■■ Small, sutglatrous, resembling those of 

 \sicmonurnx), 44 [VkiUa). — Bl. Mns. l.iujd.- jVff;);)j« of the same region and of some Zffs/n«- j 

 Bat. i. t. 45 {Stamnunm). — Miq. FL Ind. Bat. thcrea. 



i. p. i. 793 ; Suppl. i. 342, t. 2.— Seem. Fl. Vit. * A genus very near to Lasiaiithera. 



39, t. 12 (S<c»iO««)»s). —Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. ^ Spec. 1. K. brasiliensU Makt. Inc. cit.— 



i. 353. — WalI'. Ann. vii. 567. Blscnji/iora ffiiianensis MiERS, Ivc.cit. 



2 Seii). Fl. Bi-as. (1837), n. 1276.— Z/isco- ' Admisunia, xi. 200. 

 phora MiEES in Ann. Nat. Stst. ser. 2, 118; ^ As in Ampelide. 

 Contrib. i. 105, t. 20.— B. H. Gen. 352, n. 23.— ' Aspect of Artomrpus. 

 H. Bn A<ianso>iia,xi. 194. '" Very small greenish. 



3 Whence the fruit resembles the mericarp 



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