458 NATURAL HI8T0BY OF PLANTS. 



16? Glandonia Gpjseb.' — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia{ov Byrso- 

 nima)\ calyx 10 -glandulose. Stamens 10, l-adelphous glabrous; cells 

 of glabrous anther appendiculate with tuft. Germen 3-locular ; 

 branches of style free acute. A 1-locular oblong-conical somewhat 

 terete coriaceous nut, longitudinally striated, indehiscent (?), 1- 

 spermous; " testa of oblong seed membranous; cotyledons of exal- 

 buminous embryo couferruminate or one abortive." — A small tree;^ 

 younger twigs complanate ; leaves opposite ample entire ; stipules 

 axillary elongate, caducous ; flowers in terminal racemes ; bracts 

 1-3-florous ; bractlets often glandulose. [Northern Brazil?) 



17. Diacidia GrasEB.* — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia ; calyx 

 1 0-glandulose. Petals glabrous unguiculate. Stamens 10, inserted 

 on pilose receptacle ; anthers 2-aristate at apex. Germen 2-3-locular ; 

 branches of style subtree acute. A 2-3-locular nut, externally 

 corrugate ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo longitudinally in- 

 flexed. — Sericeous shrubs ; leaves opposite entire eglaudulose ; 

 stipules adnate to i^ctiole ; flowers ^ in erect terminal loose compound 

 racemes ; peduncles and pedicels many times articulated. ( Guiana., 

 Columbia.'^) 



18. Bicella Geiseb.'' — Flowers nearly of Buncliosia ; calyx 6-8- 

 glandulose, accrescent after floration. Petals 5, unequal. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments connate and hirsute at base; anthers pilose. Germen 2- 

 locular ; branches of style fi-ee, at apex uncinately dilate truncate 

 stigmatose. Nut large, externally longitudinally cristulately-costate, 

 clothed at base with accrete calyx, l-sj)ermous, indehiscent ; embryo 

 of subglobose seed thick exalbuminous : cotyledons subhemisijherical. 

 --Climbing shrubs; leaves oj)posite entire; flowers^ in corymbiform 

 axillary 3-chotomous cymes ; bracts and bractlets foliaceous sub- 

 orbicularly concave involucrant in the bud ? ' [Brasil?°) 



19. Burdachia A. Juss." — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia (or 

 Bicella) \ calyx 1 0-glandulose. Petals 5, unequal. Stamens 10; 



' Mart. Fl. Bras. MnlpigJi. 23. — B. H. Ocn. '! Linntea, xiii. 250. — A. Juss. Malpiijh. 89, t. 



252, n. 5. 9.— Endl. Gen. n. 5587.-- B. H. Oeii. 252, n. G. 



- Habit of ColeostacMs. ^ Yellow. 



^ Spec. 1. O. tmcrocarpa Griser. loc. cit. ' As in Thriinllis. 



24. — Walp. Ann.yu, 468. — Burdachia macro- '" Spec, about 3. A. Juss. A.S.H.Fl. Bras, 



cnrpa Benth. Mer. iii. 69, 177 [Bimchosia). — Guiseb. Mart. 



* Mart. FL Brai. Malpir/h. 119, not— B. II. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 32, t. 6.— Walp. Hep. v. 



Ocn. 252, n. 7. 195 ; Ann. vu. 468. 



■' Sometimes abortive and reduced to a gland. " Malpiijh. 57, t. 4. — Endl. Gen. n. .5588. 



^ Spec. 2. GiusEn. he. cit. — B. H. Oen. 252, n. 4 (incl. Carnsia Mart.). 



