8AP1NDACE.V.. 423 



subulate ; leaflets opposite and alternate mnltijngoiis oblique obtusely- 

 serrate coriaceous; flowei'S ^ in terminal composite (" thyrsoid'') 

 very ramose cymes.^ {^Netu Caledonia?) 



65. TJngnadia Endl'*. — Flowers irregular, polygamous ; sepals 5, 

 imbricate, oftener subequal. Petals 4, 5, unguiculate, imbricate ; 

 limb furnished within at base with cristate-lobate scale. Stamens 

 7-10 ; filaments subcentric free declinate, interior to 1 -lateral oblique 

 disk ; anthers introrsc (in female flower effete). Germen stipitate, 

 3-locular ; style subulate, 3-sulcate, apex stigmatose simple ; ovules 

 in cell 2, inserted at middle of internal angle ascendent ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior.^ Capsule stipitate coriaceous obpyramidally 

 3-gonal, style apiculato, loculicidally 3-valvate ; seeds globose ex- 

 arillate ; hilum broad ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo fleshy 

 plano-convex conferruminate. — Small trees ; leaves entire impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets serrate ; flowers " (early) in loosely compound 

 cymiferous racemes ; pedicels articulate. [TexasP) 



66. Magonia A. S. H.- — Flowers subregular polygamous, sepals 

 5, suboblique, imbricate. Petals 5, alteroate esquamate elongate 

 patent, imbricate. Disk complete evolute, very irregular, in some 

 cases short annular subequally crenate granulato-glandulous, in 

 others much more evolute much produced into 2 concentric lamellae 

 (the interior smaller). Stamens 8, interior to disk ; filaments free, 

 in male flower very long declinate, in female very short ; anthers in- 

 trorse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) ovoid, 3- 

 locular ; style curved, apex stigmatose obtusely 3-lobed ; ovules (in 

 male flower sterile very small) co, affixed in 2 series to internal 

 angle subtransverse, finally imbricate in many series. Fruit capsular 

 ligneous, globosely 3-gonal, loculicidal; valves solute from colu- 

 mella produced at base and apex to a septum ; seeds oo , ascendent com- 

 pressed imbricate, produced at margin to a chartaceous wiag ; hilum 



' Bather large open, lilac or rosy. <■ Spec. 1. U. speeiom Endl. Inc. c,it.—\\KL\'. 



^ A genus in some cases very near to Rep. i. 423; v. 371. 



Kwlreiiteria, in others to Cussiguia. ' Mem. Mus. xii. 336, t. 12, 13 ; PI. Hem. Bres. 



' Spec. 1. L, coriaceiis Hook. P. loc. cil. — 238, t. 23, 24 ; ^/. ^j'a.s. jl/'w.i. 394(not Vellos.). 



Walp. Ann. vii. 624. Cambess. Mem Mus. xviii. 35. — Spach. Suit 



• Atakt. t. 36; Kov. Stirp. Dec. 75, n. 86; & Siiffo)i,m.T\. — Endl. Gen. n. 5630. — Pheeo- 

 Gen. n. 6640. — A. Gray, Ocn. III. 209, t. 178, caipu.i Maut. et Zvcc. Nop. Gen. ct Spec. i. 61, 

 179.— B. H. Oen. 398, n. 22. t. 37, 38. 



• Funicle thick rugose subfimhriate. ° Largo thick ; valves in the dry very hard 



• Rosy, inserted in the axils of tho inferior very concave within, 

 bracteiform leaves of a younger branch. 



