r* 



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ascending, dorsally inserted, oftener produced below to a membranous 

 wing and imbricate ; raphe produced to a wing from base to apex ; 

 testa of nucleus coriaceous or crustaceoiis, sometimes rugose; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo fleshy conferruminate ; radicle 

 short inferior. — Small trees or climbing shrubs; leaves opposite 

 entire or serrate ; petiole articulate ; stipules small, caducous ; 

 flowers in axillary or terminal simple or oftener compound racemose 

 cymes. {All tropical reports). See p. 13. 



36. SalaciaL.i — Flowers of ^^)?/?ocm^fm ; petals 5, open imbricate. 

 Anthers 2-dymous, 2-locular ; cells transversely rimose [Tontelea'^) or 

 longitudinally dehiscent [Eusalacia)^ Diplesthes^^) sometimes confluent 

 in 1 transversely elongate and finally 1-rimose cell {Anthodon^) 

 Gynsecium and other cliaracters of Hippocratea, Fruit baccate, 

 spherical, ovoid or obovoid, thickly corticate; pulp mucilaginous. 

 Seeds 1 -oo , oftener angular, sometimes arillate ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous or more rarely ( Calypso ^) albuminous embryo ^ thick, 

 free or conferruminate ; radicle short inferior. — Erect sarmentous or 

 climbing glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite or more rarely {Diplesthes) 

 alternate, entire, or crenate or serrate ; stipules very small or ; 

 flowers ^ axillary, solitary, 2-nate or oftener cymose-oo , sometimes 

 in terminal compound cymiferous racemes.^ {All tropical regions?) 



37. Campylostemon Welw^^. — ^' Flowers (nearly of Hippocratea) 

 5-merous ; petals open. Stamens 5, inserted in scarcely visible disk ; 

 filaments incurved ; anthers 4-locellate, introrsely transversely rimose. 

 Germen 3-locular; stigma sessile 3 -fid; ovules in cells 6-8, 2 -seriate. 



^ Mavtiss. 293. — J. Gen. 424. — Poir. Diet. vi. ^ A genus distinguislied from Hippocratea 



450. — DC. Frodr. i. 570. — Spach, Suit, d Buffon, only by the nature of its fruit, 

 ii. 400.— Endl. Gen. n. 7502.— B. H. Gen. 370, ^ Species atout GO. Wight, Hook. Bot. Misc. 



n. 37.— H. Bn. Payer, Fam. Nat. 326.— Hook. iii. Suppl.t. 36 ; ///. t. 46; Icon.t. 962.— Wight 



Fl. Ltd. i. 625. and Arn. Frodr. i. 104.— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et 



2 AuBL. Guia.i. i. 31, t.— Lamk. III. t. 26.— Spec. v. 140, t. 443 {Tontelea) .—A. S. H. Fl. 

 Endl. Gen. n. 5701. — Tonsella Schreb. Gen. n. Bras. Mer. ii. 104, t. 104 {Calypso).— Bi,. Bijdr. 

 74. — Sicelium P. Br. ex. Pom. op. cit. v. 146. — 218. — Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, viii. 93. — 

 Johiiia EoxB. Fl. Ind. i. IQ^. — Anthodiscus Guillem. et V-ruu. Fl. Se^u Tent. i. 113, t. 27. 

 Mart. Schult. Mantiss. i. 253, (not Mey.). Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 230. — Oliv. Fl. 



3 Harv. Hooh. Bond. Journ. i. 19. Trop. AJ'r. i. 372. — A. Gray, Amer. FJjcpl. Exp. 



* E. et Pay. Fl. Per. et C/nl. i. 45, t. 74.— Bot. i. 286.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 148.— 

 CUrcia Velloz. Fl. Flum. 29, t. 73, 74:.— Bad- Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 38.— Miq. Fl. 

 disia Leandr. MUnch. BenTcschr. vii. 244, t. 15 Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 597. — F. Muell. Fragm. v. 

 (Endl.). 202.— Tr. Ann. Sc. Nat. loc. cit. 373.— H. Bn. 



* Dup.-Th. Hist. Veg. lies Afr. Austr. i. 29, Adansonia, x. 184 ; xi. 272.— Walp. Bep. i. 400, 

 t. 6. 401; V. UQ; Ann. i. 130; ii. 193; iv. 368; 



^ Sometimes green. vii. 584. 



' Small, yellowish or white. lo Ex B. H. Gen. 998, n. 35 a. 



