463 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Brachyptcrys (or Banisteria). — A tree ; leaves opposite ample oblong 

 entire eglandulose, silky beneath ; flowers ' in terminal ramose com- 

 pound racemes ; sericeous brancbes and j^edicels thick articulate 

 bracteolate. [Guiana.-) 



28? Sphedamnocarpus Pl.^ — Flowers nearly oi Banisteria ; 

 calyx eglandulose. Petals 5, shortly uuguiculate siibentire. Stamens 

 10, glabrous. Carpels 3, hirsute, coalite at axis ; branches of style 3, 

 free filiform ; apex stigmatose acute incurved. Samarse 1-3, 

 laterally inserted in pyramidal receptacle and finally solute fi-om it, 

 produced above to a dorsal wing. — Scandent shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 or sometimes 3-4-nately verticillate, entire exstipulate ; petiole 

 glandulose ; flowers in umbelliform oftener terminal cymes, generally 

 4-florous ; peduncles bracteolate at base and 2-bracteolate * at apex. 

 (Tropical Western and Southern Africa.^) 



29. Acridocarpus Guill. and Peer.'' — Flowers nearly of Sj^he- 

 damnocarpiis ; calyx eglandiilose or externally at base inconspicuously 

 and unequally glandulose. Stamens 1 ; anthers often cordate- 

 lanceolate glabrous. Germen 3-lGbed; styles 3, of which 2 are 

 oftener long filiform, circinate at acute stigmatose incurved apex ; 

 the third often short erect or inconspicuous. Samarse 1-3, and other 

 characters of Sphedamnocarpus ; seeds often angular ; cotyledons of 

 curved embryo plano-convex. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent ; 

 leaves opposite or generally alternate exstipulate, often glanduliferoiis 

 beneath ; flowers ' in racemes or more rarely corymbs subsimple or 

 ramose terminal and lateral ; pedicels reflexed at apex, bracteate and 

 2 -bracteolate. [Tropical., south., continental and east insular Africa, 

 Arabia, New Caledonia?) 



30. Tricomaria Hook, and Aen.^ — FIoAvers nearlj^ of Banisteria ; 

 calyx 8-10-glandulose. Petals unguiculate unequal. Stamens 10 ; 

 anthers glabrous. Gyna^ceum of Stic/majihyllon or Brachy- 



1 Eathor large (yellow ?). iii. 166.— Endi,. Gen. n. 5576.— B. ll.Gen. 256, 



^ Spec. 1. L. spleiir/ens A. Juss. loc. c'U. — n. 24. — Aiiomaloptcris G. Don. Gcii. Syst. i. 647. 



Walp. Rep. V. 200. ' Golden, sometimes very odoriferous. 



3 B. H. Gen. 250, 988, n. 2.5. » Spec. 12, 13. Hook. p. Niger, 244, t. 24.— 



* Closely allied to Aciiiiocai-pm. Habv. and Sond. F/. Cap. i. 231, n. 1. — 



' Spec. 2, 3. A. Juss. Malpiffh. 236 (Aerirlo- Harv. T/ies. Cap. 12, t. 19.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. 



carpus, § 2).— Hauv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 232, Afr. i. 277.— H.Bn. Adaiiwnia, xi. 248. - Walp. 



n. 2, 3 [Acridocarpus).— OiA\. Fl. Trap. Afr.i. Rep. v. 285 ; Ann. i. 131 ; ii. 204; tH. 471. 



280.— Walp. Rep. v. 288 [Acridocnrpiis, § 2). 9 Bot. Misc. iii. 168, 1. 101.— A. Juss. Malpigh. 



» Fl. Sciieg. Ten!, i. 123, t. 29.— A. Juss. Mai- Iii, t. 15.— Endl. Gen. n. 6684.— B. H. Gen. 



jngh. 228 (part.), t. 15.— Spach, Suit. & Buffon, 258, n. 31. 



