GELASTRACE^, 



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tiferous prominence. But the petals, large and very distinctly imbri- 

 cated or twisted in the bud, are so closely united below by means of 

 the alternate staminal filaments that the latter seem inserted on the 



Salvadora persica. 



Fig. 17. Herinaplirodite flower. 



Fig. 16. Bud (If). 



Fig. 18. Long. sect, of flower. 



Fig. 19. Fruit {\). 



Fig. 21. Embryo. 



Fig. 20. Long. sect, of fruit. 



corolla which appears in adult age like a perfectly gamopetalous 

 envelop (fig. 17, 18). The Salvador as ^ of which one or two species 

 are found in tropical Asia and Africa, have opposite leaves accom- 

 panied by small stipules, and numerous small flowers, arranged 

 in simple or more or less ramified spikes, s 



V. HIPPOCEATE SEKIES. 



The flowers of Hippocratea^ are closely analogous to those of 

 Euonymus, regular and hermaphrodite. The receptacle, more or less 

 flattened, bears a short calyx of five sepals, free, or united only at the 

 base, imbricated or nearly valvate, with five alternate petals, longer, 

 erect or expanded, imbricate or valvate in the bud. The androecium 

 is ordinarily formed of three fertile stamens, each with a free filament, 

 generally enlarged near the base and recurved at anthesis, inserted 



^ Hippocratea L. Gen. n. 54. — J. Gen. 251. — 

 liAMK. Bict. 395 ; Suppl. i. 606 ; III. t. 28.— 

 DC. Prodr. i. 567.— Turp. Bict. Sc. Nat. Atl. 

 t. 162.— Spach. Suit, a Buffon, ii. 399.— Endl. 

 Gei>. n. 5700.— Fayek, Organog. 163, t. 35.— H. 

 Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 326.— B. H. Gen. 369, 



998, n. 36.— Hook. Fl. Lid. i. 62Z.—Coa Plum. 

 Ge/?. 8, t. S5.—Feresh'a Velloz. Fl. Flum .34, i. 

 t. 81 (not Mill, nor Plum.). — Bejuco I-cefl. It. 

 4:04:.— Ba2)hnikon Pohl, Flora (1825), 183 

 (from Endl.). — ? Fomualda Tr. Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 ser. 5, xvi. 370.— Cuervea Tr. (ex B. H.). 



