334 NATVBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



membranous or siibcoriaceoiis ; flowers in axillary subcorymbose 

 cymiferoiis pedunculate racemes. {Trop. West. Africa?) 



55. Platea Bl." — Flowers polygamous-dioecious (nearly of 

 Lasianthera), 5-merous ; sepals small free, imbiieated. Petals valvate, 

 caducous. Stamens 5, altcrnijjetalous ; anthers ovoid, 2-dymous. 

 Germen and ovules of Muppia (or Lasianthera) ; style wide discoid 

 dilated, sometimes oblique, stigmatiferous above and depi-essed at 

 centre. Drupe oblong ; putamen ligneous ; embryo albuminous 

 straiglit (?) — Trees; leaves alternate entire coriaceous, sometimes 

 with the younger branches leprose-rufescent ; flowers in axillary 

 more or less ramified interrupted cymiferous racemes ; female racemes 

 much shorter. {Ind. Arch.^) 



50. Villaresia E. and Pav.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Gonocaryxmi); sepals 5, imbricated. Petals same 

 in number alternate, inwardly costate, imbricated or inflexo-valvate 

 at apex. Stamens 5 ; filaments subulate at apex, at base complanate, 

 alternate with petals and coherent ; anthers cordate-reniform in- 

 trorse. Germen of Gonocarjjuin {or Map2Ma)y2-0Yu\at&; style short 

 thick, stigmatose oblique recurved fimbriate at apex. Drupe oblong 

 or ellipsoidal ; putamen partly divided within by a longitudinal 

 semiseptum ; seed descendent, having a vertical process between the 

 ventral groove ; albumen fleshy corrugate ; embryo minute subapical. 

 — Trees or shrubs high scandent ; leaves alternate (persistent) entire 

 or spinulose-deutate coriaceous (lucid) ; flowers ^ in capituliform 

 cymes, the racemes simple or ramified, axillary, lateral or terminal. 

 [South trop. America and Oceania.^) 



57. Sarcanthidion n. Bn." — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 



' Spec. 1. A. Maniiii Oliv. loc. cit. i. 248. — Chariessa Mia. Fl.Ind.-Baf. i. p. i, 794. 



= Bljdr. 646; Mus. Lugd.-Bnl.K. 249.— Endl. '" Rather small, white. 



Ocn. II. o495. — MiEKS, in Ann. Nat. Bist. ser. * Spec, ad 10. MoLIN. Cliil. ed. 2, 29.3 



2, X. Ill; Cmtrih. i. 95 (part.).— B. H. Gni. (Cilnti).— 'Reus. Mart. Fl. Siat. Cdastr. ~5,t. 



353, n. 28. 22.— C. Gay, Fl. C/iil. ii. 12.— A. Gray, Amci: 



■' Spec. 3, 4. MlQ. Fl. Iiul.-JSat. i. p. i. 793. Fxpl. F.rp. Hot. i. t. 27 {Plciiropetalmii).—Tiw. 



— Walp. Ann. vii. 568. Oartcnflorn, v. 61 ; vi. t, 180.— Bentu. Fl. 



* Fl. Per et Chil.m. 9, t. 231.— ^. Juss. Ann. Anstrul. i. 395.— Mieks in Seem. Jonrn. nf Bot. 



Sp. Nnt. ser. 1, xxv. 14, t. 3.— Endl. Gen. n. (1864), 26G, t. 21.— WAi.r. Hep. i. 541 ; Ann. 



5709.— MiERs, Ann. Nat. lilst. ser.. 2, ix. 110.— ii. 181 {Pleiirope/tiliim) ; iv. 353 {Plciiropetalum) ; 



B. H. Gen. 353, n. 29.— H. Bn. Ailansnnia, iii. vii. 568. 



88, 93. — Citronella Bov. Ftlinli.Neie Phil.Joiirn. ' Adansonia, xi. 199. 

 xiii. 243. — Plewopctalnm Bi.. Miis. Lurjd.-But. 



