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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



49 ? Diploglottis Hook, r.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Pancovia) ; sepals 5, valvate. Petals 4, furuished above the claw 

 with a scale 2-plicate glandulose-apiculate at the back. Capsule ^ 

 globose- 3-gonal, sub-3-lobate, with 3-valvate cell. Seed ascendent 

 and enclosed by a pulpy -^ unequally fissured aril ; testa thick ; ^ coty- 

 ledons of (green) embryo thick-fleshy plano-convex.^ — A tree ; with 

 ferrugineous-tomentose or subhirsute innovations ; leaves alternate 

 abruptly pinnate ; leaflets opposite petiolulate ; flowers crowded in 

 axillary very composite-ramose cymiferous racemes, bracteate.'^ 

 (^Subtropical Australia j) 



50. PauUinia L.^ — Flowers polygamo-dioecious irregular (nearly 

 of Pancovia or SchmideUa)^ 5- or more nearly 4-merous ; calyx imbri- 

 cate. Petals 4, unequal, variously squamate-appendiculate. Sta- 

 mens 8, or more rarely 9-15, interior to unequally- sometimes deeply- 

 lobed disk ; lobes of disk sometimes nearly free. The excentric germen 

 and ovules of Pancovia ; style 3-fid or 3-partite. Capsule pedicellate 

 piriform, 3-gonal, sometimes 3-alate, more rarely exalate (Pnourea^) 

 and coriaceous, 1-3-locular. septicidally 3-valvate, 1-8-spermous. 

 Testa of ascendent shortly arillate seed crustaceous ; embryo exalbu- 

 minous straight or oftener curved. — Sarmentose scandent or volubile 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, 1-3-ternate, pinnate or pinnately decompo- 

 site, oftener stipulate ; petiole often wiugod ; leaflets often dentate 

 or crenate, punctate or lineolate ; flowers in axillary, simple or ramose 

 cymiferous x-acemes, very often 2-cirrhoseat base. {Trojncal America ^°) 



51 ? Castanella Spruce." — Flowers irregular polygamo-dioecious ; 



DC. Pi-udr. i. G13, n. 12 {Cupania).—Uo-s.ji. PI. 

 Coram, i. 43, t. 60 [Mollniea), — Thw. Eiium. PI. 

 Zeyl. 56.— Walp. Ann. vii. 621. 



I Grn. 395, n. 10. 



'- Forrugineo-liirsuto. 



' Acid, turgid, miniate. 



'' Brown, smooth. 



* Nearly as in Jl'lseulns Mippocastanus. 



" Other characters of Pajicorin, from which 

 genus it is distinguished by its fruit and inflo- 

 rescence. It seems hardly, however, tn he re- 

 tained. 



' Spec. 1. D. CunniiKjI^ami HoOK r. loc. cit. 

 — Bentu. Fl Austi-nl. i. 454. — Ciipaniu Cunning- 

 hami Hook. But. Miiij. t. 4470. — Walp. Ann. ii. 

 215, n. 8. — Stadinaiiia Auslralis A. CusN. MSS. 

 (Hook.) . 



8 Gen. n. 331.— J. Oeii. 247 ; in Ann. Mii^. iv. 

 340, t. 66.— Pom. Diet. v. 95 (part.) ; Suppl. iv. 

 333.— Lamk. III. t. 318, fig. 2-5.— UC. Pndr. i. 

 604. — CAMiiESs.il/em. A/«s. xviii.22. — Spach, 



Suit, a Buffm, in. 47.— Endl. Gen. n. 5603.— H. 

 Bx Pat/er Fun:. Nat. 316.— B. H. Gen. 394, n. 6. 

 — Semitn-illin-ia R. and Pav. Prudr. 54, t 9. 



' AuBL. Gitiiin. i.588, t. 235. — Cambess. Mam. 

 Mn.i. xviii. 36.— Endl. Oen. n. 5604.— B. H. 

 Gm. 394, n. 8.. 



1" Spec, ad 70. Plvm. Gc/i. 3i,t. 36 {Cnrnni). 

 — Jaco. Oh. t. 61, 62 ; Hort. Seha-nbr. t. 268 ; Ic. 

 Kar. t. 450. — ScHUM. Act. Soc. Mnfn. iii. p. ii. 

 122, t. 11.— H. B. K. No,: Gen. et Spec. v. 114. 

 —A. S. H. PI. Rem. Bres. 236, t. 23 ; Ft. Bias. 

 Ucr. i. 369, t. 77, 78.— Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 37. 

 —UooK.Exot. Fl. t. no.— PtEPF.and Endl. Kor. 

 Gen. et Spec. t. 243.— Tuucz. BuH. Mosc. (1858), 

 i. 397.— Gkiseb fl Brif. W. Ind. 123; Cal. PI. 

 Cub. 45. — Tk. and Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 

 350, 379 {E'loiirea).— Walp. Rep. i. 413 ; ii. 

 814; V. 360; Ann. iv. 377; vii. 620, 621 

 {EiioKi-ea). 



" Ex B. B.Oen. 394, n. 7.— Tr. and Pl. Ann. 

 Sc, Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 365. 



