284 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



compressed (Gatappa ^), 2-7-aIate ; wings thick, sometimes sinuate 

 or incised {Rawatuella) thick coriaceous or widely membranous ; 

 exocarp thin or more rarely thick, fleshy or coriaceous ; putamen 

 coriaceous or osseous, 1-spermous, straight, curved or much recurved ^ 

 (Conocarpus^). Seed ovoid or elongate, terete or angular ; coat thin; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo convolute. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate or more rarely opposite and 2-glandular at base 

 (Chuncoa,'^ Pentaptera^\ often collected at summit of twigs, sessile 

 or oftener petiolate, generally entire, sometimes pellucid or dark- 

 spotted ; flowers ^ spicate or more rarely racemose ; spikes simple or 

 more or less ramose, elongate, loose or in short capitules ; or some- 

 times (Anogeissus, Gonocarpus, Bamatuella) densely capitate. [All 

 trop, regions,'^) See p. 267. 



II? ISTYSSE^. 

 9. Nyssa L. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; receptacle of males 

 shortly cupular or subplane. Calyx small, very small or subnil ; 

 teeth 5-Go . Petals 5- go , imbricate. Stamens 5-18, or go , inserted 

 with perianth around thick pulvinulate disk entire or crenate or 

 lobed, glabrous smooth above or produced to a central cone (rudiment 

 of gynsecium ?) ; filaments free ; anthers sub-2-dymous ; cells 

 laterally or introrsely rimose. Eeceptacle of female or hermaphrodite 

 flower tubular, urceolate or subcampanulate, enclosing adnate 

 germen; calyx as in males. Petals small or 0. Rudimentary 

 stamens or few anantherous or with effete anthers. Germen 

 inferior, 1-locular (or very rarely 2-locular ; dissepiments perfect or 



1 G^RTN. Fnict. ii. 206, t. 127 ; iii. 207, t. or more rarely red, pale violet or purplish, 

 217. — Adamaram Rheede, ex Adans. Fam. des sometimes scented. 



PL ii. 445. — Tanibouca Aubl. Guian. 448, 1. 178. 7 Spec. 100. Jacq. St. Am. t. 52 [Conocarpm). 



2 Fruit in Gonocarpus and others imbricate in — Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 312. — Wight, III. 

 a dense cone. t. 91 ; Icon. t. 172. — A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 



3 G^RTN. Fritet. ii. 470, t. 177 ; iii. 205, t. 239, 1. 128.— Guillem. et Perr. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 

 216.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 96; III. t. 126.— DC. 276, t. 63, 64; 278 {Gonocarpus), 279, t. 65 

 Prodr. iii. 16 (part). — Spach, Suit. aBuffon, iv. {Anogeissus). — Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 90. 

 303.— Endl. Gen. n. 6081.— B. H. Gen. 686, n. 3. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 276.— Harv. and 

 — Rudbechia Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 80 (not L.). Sond. Fl. Gap. ii. 508, — Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 



-» Pav. ex J. Gen. 76.— Poir. Diet. Suppl. ii. 496.— Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 103.— Eichl. Mart. 



258.— Endl. Gen. n. 6079.— Gimbernatia R. et FL Bras. Gombret. 81, t. 23, 24, 33, 34 ; 94, t. 35, 



Pay. Prodr. 138, t. 36.— ? Chicarronia A. Rich. i. {Bucida) ; 95, t. 25 {Buchenavia) ; 99, t. 35 



Fl. Gub. 529, t. 43. — Vicentia Allem. Diss, de ii. {Bamatuella) ; 100, t. 35, ii. {Gonocarpus). — 



Vicentia acuminata 'Rio Janeiro {ISii). — Walp. Laws. Fl. lb-op. Afr. ii. 4:15, 4:17 {Gonocatpu^, 



Ann. iii. 934. — Eichl. Mart. FL Bras. Gombret- Anogeissus). — Bot. Mag. t. 3004. — Walp. Pep. 



92, t. 33, fig. 15 (fl. 4-merou8). ii. 60, 63 {Anogeissus) ; Ann.i. 289 ; ii. 524 ; iv. 



5 RoxB. FL Lid. ii. 437.— Endl. Gen. n. 6077. 672.— Groton Benzoe L. Mantiss. 297 (DC. Prodr. 



^ Small or moderate-sized, greenish, whitish iii. 11). 



