398 NATUEAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



buminous embryo thick flexuose ; radicle short superior. — Glabrous 

 or pubescent shrubs ; leaves alternate or fasciculate, simple or 

 pinnate, linear or oblong, thick coriaceous, cntu'e or paucispinose ; 

 flowers ^ in axillary and terminal simple or 2-nate racemes ; pedicels 

 articulate at base.^ ( Warm Australia?) 



12. Capura Blanco.* — Flowers polygamous regular ; sepals 4, 5, 

 equal, imbricated. Petals 4, 5, alternate, minute, articulate inflexed 

 on both sides at margin, or more rarely 0. vStamens 5-10, 

 interior to annular disk short ; anthers introrse included. Germen 

 (rudimentary in male flower) 3-4-locular ; style very short, after- 

 wards radiate- 3-4-lobed stigmatiferous ; ovule in cells 1, ascendent. 

 Fruit 1-4-lobed ^ or oftener entire, 2-4-locular, coriaceous, iudehis- 

 cent ; seeds arillate ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick fleshy, 

 unequal obliquely superposed ; radicle conical descendent. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate imparl- or paripinnate ; folioles sessile opposite 

 or alternate, often pellucid-punctate ; the lowest small stipuliform ; 

 rachis sometimes winged ; flowers in termmal and axillary little or 

 much ramified cymiferous racemes. {Ind. Arch. 3Ialasia. *'') 



13. Cupania L.' — Flowers regular polygamous-dicecious ; sepals 

 6 (or more rarely 3-6), free rather concave suborbiculate wide im- 

 bricated or oftener {Matayba ^) rather short, or short, less strictly 



' Small insignificant. Blighia'K.(ES. in Ann. Hot. ii. 571, t. 16, 17. — 



- A genus whose flowers are not unlike the Aakesia Tuss. Fl. Ant. i. 66, t. 3. — Guioa Cav. 



preceding, it differs principally in habit [Oka) Icon. 49, t. 373. — Molhxea J. Gen. 245. — Lamk. 



and leaves often simple slightly evolute. 111. t. 305. — Dlmere:a Labill. Strt. Aiistio- 



'■' Spec. 2, 3. F. MuELL. Fl. Vict. i. 90; caled. 61, t. 6\.—Diplopctalon Spkeng. Si/st. 



Fragm. i. 46. — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 469. — Cur. Post. UH. — I)ii/onocarj)ns\-EL,i.os. Fl. Fliim. 



Walp. Jnii. vii. 631. 152, iv. t. 14. — Triffonocarpns Vellos. loc. cU. 



* Fl. fie Filiji. 234 (nee L.).— B. H. Gen. 405, 153, t. 16.— Dicli/oneura Bl. liumphia, iii. 163. 

 n. 44. — Otuijhora Bl. liumphia, iii. 142. — Oto- ^ Au«L. Gnian. i. 331, t. 128. — EpJiielis 



lepis TuEcz. Hull. Mosc. (1848), p. i. 512. Schreb. Gen. 253. — Oelonimn G^rtn. Fruet. ii. 



' In Neplielio niulliJiir/oli.ooK.r. {Trans. Linn. 271, t. 139 (not BoxB.)! — Tina Eolm. et Sen. 



Soc. xxiii. 164) which, according to authors, is a Si/sl. Vcg. v. 414 (not Bl.). — ? Pcdicellia Lour. 



species of (7n;)«™ with 3 -lohed ovarium. Fl. C'ochinch. (ed. 1790), 665. — Raionia DC. 



« Spec, ahout 8. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. I'rodr. i. 618.— B. H. Gen. 399, 1000, n. 25.— 



559 [Otophora). — Walp. Ann. vii. 629. Mischocarpus Bl. Bijdr. 238 ; Swnphia, iii. 166. 



'Plum. Oen. Amer. 49, t. 19. — Jj. Gen, n. — Lepidopetalum'Bu Itiinip/iia,iii. 171. — Arytera 



279. — J. Gen. 249. — G-.iiRTN. Fnict. t. 177. — Bl. Rmnphiu, iii. 170. — Laclinopelalum Turcz. 



Lamk. Diet. ii. 225 ; Suppl. ii. 417.— DC. Prodr. in Bull. Mnse. (1848), ii. 571.— Zi/golepis Turcz. 



i. C12. — Gamress. 3/p')«. J/m. xviii. 28, t. 3. — Ine. cit. ii. 573. — ? Paraiiej/Iielinin Tevsm. & 



Spach, Suit, a Biiffmi, iii. 57. — Endl. Gen. n. Binn. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.-Ind. xxviii. 177. — 



5614.— H. H. Gen. 399, 999, n. 24.— Bakek, Fl. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 509 {Mildea MiQ. 



Maurit. 57. — Trigonis jAca.Stiip. Amer. t. 102. Ann. Miis. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 88, t. 6). 

 — Vuttarnna Aukl. Guian. Suppl. 12, t. 374. — 



