80 1^ AT URAL HISTony OP PLANlS. 



23. Crumenaria Mart.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 Gouania) ; receptacle campanulate beyond adnate germen. Sepals 

 valvate. Petals cucullate, inserted at the base of the hollows 

 of calyx. Stamens enclosed by petals. Germen quite inferior, 

 2-3-locular ; branches slender cylindrical erect (2-3-fid); style 

 dilated at stigmatose apex. Fruit inferior and crowned with 

 remains or prominent cicatrice of perianth, produced in 2, 3 vertical 

 winged lobes ; wings membranous veined (marginal as regards 

 cocci), 2-lamellate ; cocci chartaceous obcordate, finally separate 

 from 3 -partite columella and dehiscing within. Seed obovate ; 

 testa rather hard ; cotyledons of thinly albuminous embryo suborbi- 

 cular plano-convex fleshy ; radicle inferior very short. — Herbs or 

 annuals ; '^ root fibrous ; leaves alternate petiolate corda to-ovate 

 membranous, 3-nerved at base ; or oftener perennial ; rhizome 

 woody; annual branches thin reedy, terete or compressed; leaves 

 or very small scaly; stipules very small linear ciliate; flowers^ in 

 axillary slightly ramose, more rarely racemose cymes, sometimes 

 few or solitary. {Trop, Brazils) 



24. Helinus E. Mey.^ — Flowers of Gouania; disk epigynous 

 rather flat. Fruit inferior, shortly obovoid oxalate, areolate at 

 depressed apex, finally dry coriaceous ; cocci 3, crustaceous, finally 

 separate from central 3-partite columella and dehiscing within ; 

 seeds and other characters of Gouania (or Beissekia), — Scandent 

 shrubs, glabrous cirrhiferous or pubescent ; leaves alternate cordato- 

 ovate entire, slenderly petiolate ; stipules small, deciduous ; in- 

 florescence of Reissekia. [East Indies ^ South Africa^ Ahyssinia-^) 



25. Phylica L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely polyga- 

 mous; receptacle very concave, tubular or obconical or urceolate. 



1 Nov. Gen. et Sjyec. ii. 68, t. 160.— Ad. Br. « Spec. 3. Ait. Hort. Keiv. i. 266 {JRhamnus). 

 Rhamn. 73.— Endl. Gen. n. 5748.— B. H. Gen. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 139, t. 31.— 

 385, n. 34.— H. Bx. Adansonia, xi. 290. Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 479.— Jaub. and 



2 In 1 spec. viz. C. decumbens Mart.— G. Spach, III. Fl, Or. v. t. 472.— Walp. Ann. vii. 

 Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 44. 608. 



3 Small, white. 7 Ge7u n. 266.— J. Gen. 381.— Gjertn. Fruct. 

 ^ Spec. 3, 4 (1 of which is membranous-leaved; i. 114, t. 24.— Lamk. III. t. 121.— Vois.. Diet. y. 



root annual, in habit very different from the 286 ; Suppl. iii. 400.— DC. Frodr. ii. 34.— An. 



rest, but in no generic sense distinct). Reiss. Br. Rhamn. 68, t. 6, ii.— Spach, Suit, a Bt(ffon, 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Rhamn, 112, t. 41. ii. 467.— Endl. Gen, n. 5738.— B. H. Gen. 380, 



5 In Herb. Drdye (ex Endl. Ge7i. n. 5745).— n. 18.— H. Bn. Fayer Fam. Nat. 329.— Bakeb 



B. H. Gen. 385, n. 36.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 644. PI. Maurit. 63. 



