400 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



15. Crossonephelis H. Bn. — Flowers monoecious regular apeta- 

 lous ; male sepals 4, rather thicker, scarcely connate at base, valvate. 

 Stamens 4, opposite sepals and interior to cuj)iilar 4-lobed disk ; disk 

 lobes alternating with sepals : filaments inserted below small rudi- 

 ment of gyna^ceum, arched subulate and at base more or less lodged 

 in furrows of interposed disk lobes ; anthers introrse ovate, 2- 

 rimose. Female calyx valvate deeply 4-lobed. Disk thick cupu- 

 lar, finally strictly reflexed on calyx and representing a short 

 fleshy gamopetalous corolla. Staminodes 4, oppositisepalous, interior 

 to disk rather thicker pointed. Germen free compressed-sub-2- 

 dymous, 2-locular ; style branches erect contiguous coadunate, 

 divaricate at dilated oblong stigmatiferous apex. Ovules in cells 

 solitary, ascendent from bottom of internal angle ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit ... ? — A glabrous tree ; habit of Sapindvs ; leaves 

 alternate crowded at summit of branches paripinnate ; folioles sub- 

 sessile opposite, 2-3-jugate i^enniveined glabrous ; flowers small 

 crowded in terminal spiciform scantily ramified cymiferous or glo- 

 meruliferous clusters ; superior glomerules male ; female inferior 

 sometimes androgynous.' [Nossi-her) 



IG. Talisia Aubl.^ — Flowers regular polygamous-dioecious; 

 sepals 5, much (or sometimes scarcely) imbricate. Petals generally 

 same in number alternate, imliricated, inwardly enlarged by entire 

 or 2-lobed densely and rigidly barbate plates. Stamens 8 (or more 

 rarely 5-7), interior to regular annidar subentire or lobed disk ; 

 filaments free, usually glabrous ; anthers introrse apiculate, 2-rimose. 

 Gormen (in male flower rudimentary) o-lobed, 3-locular ; ovule in 

 cells 1, ascendent; micropyle extrorse inferior; style erect, apex 

 stigmatiferous 3 -lobed. Fruit ovoid acuminate dry, indehiscent, 

 sometimes pubescent, 1-sperraous ; testa of exarillate ascendent 

 seed sometimes rugose withoiit ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous 

 embryo fleshy hemispherical supei'posed ; radicle short desceudeut 

 accumbent. — Glabrous or pilose trees or small trees ; leaves alternate 

 abruptly pinnate ; folioles entire coriaceous ; flowers crowded in 

 ramified cymiferous racemes. [South-East trop. America). 



' A genus apparently allied to Eriocccleum, — DC. Prodi: i. 609. — Cambess. Mem. Mas. 



difJcring Ijy apetalous 4-meroug isostemonous, xviii. 29. — Endl. Oen. n. fl616. — B. H. Gch. 



flowers eruciately 4-lobod disk sometimes by 401, n. 31. — ? Acltuldca U. i.t Fi.v. Fnc/r. 133, 



nature of 2-merou3 gyna'ceum. t. 29 (ex Endl.). — Comatoglosnum Kaust. et Tk. 



- Spec. 1. C. Pcrvitki H. Bn. Ada/isouiif, xi. in Liniuca, xxviii. 436. 



245. " Spec, ad 15. Tk. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Xat. 



' Giiiaii. i. 349, t. 136 (neo Bentu.). — Lamk. ser. 4, x\-iii. 3G9. — Walp. Ann, vii. 62S. 

 ///. t. 310.— PoiR. DM. vii. 659 ; Suppl. v. 281. 



