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produced beyond germen adnate to cavity witliin. Calyx inserted on 

 margin cyathiform^ at first subentire, finally divided, irregularly 2-4- 

 lobed. Petals 4, or more rarely 5, patent. Stamens oo , inserted on 

 thick subcupular disk ; filaments unequal, go -seriate ; the interior 

 smaller ; all thick connivent in a globe involute ; anthers small ; cells 

 distinct rimose. Germen inferior, 4-locular; style short, at apex cross- 

 rayed-4-lobed ; ovules in cells 2-4, descending. Fruit fieshy, crowned 

 with calyx ; seed oftener 1, descending ; testa thick ; embryo . . . ? — 

 Lofty trees ; leaves alternate, collected at top of twigs, entire or 

 sinuate penninerved epunctate ; flowers cymose on trunk or branches, 

 shortly pedicellate.^ " (Trojp. America.^) 



56. Gustavia L.^ — Flowers 4-6-merous ; receptacle turbinate or 

 subhemispherical. Sepals 4-6, connate at base or higher, persistent. 

 Petals 5-8, subequal, imbricate. Stamens oo , regularly oo -seriate ; 

 filaments equally urceolately connate at base, infiexed in bud ; an- 

 thers basifixed linear, sub-4-locellate ; cells parallel, dehiscing by 

 longitudinal or sometimes short poriform cleft. Germen inferior, ad- 

 nate within to receptacle, at apex flat or depressed, 4-6-locular ; style 

 central very short, apex stigmatose very shortly lobate or sulcate. 

 Ovules in cells go , anatropous ; funicle short or 0. Fruit fibrous, 

 crowned with calyx or umbilicate at apex, indehiscent. Seeds oo 

 (oftener few), suspended by means of an elongate incrassate plicate 

 arilliform funicle ; testa hard ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 thick, sometimes unequal ; radicle short. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate,* entire or serrate penninerved, oftener impunctate ; flowers 

 solitary or few cymose ; peduncle articulate, sometimes 2-bracteolate 

 to middle. {Trop. America,^) 



57 ? Cariniana Casae.^ — Flowers nearly of Gustavia, 5-6-merous. 

 Stamens oo , unequal, oo -seriate ; filaments connate at base to a more 



1 A genus apparently allied in some respects t. 192, 193. — J. Gen. 326. — Pom. Diet. v. 344. — 

 to Gustavia, in others to Courataris, but not seen Lamk. III. t. 592. — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 

 by us. vii. 261. — Spallanzania Neck. Elem, 79, n. 733. 



2 Spec. 1, 2 (ex Miers 4). Sloan. Eist. ii. 123, —Teichmeyera Scop. Introd. n. 1212. 

 1. 127, fig. 1, 2 {AnchovijPear).—?. Br. Jam. 245. ^ Nearly of Billeniee. 



— Lux. Mort. Jam. i. 19. — Seem. Voy. Herald, * White or pink or red, showy. 



^0^.126.— Griseb. Fl. Br. W.-Ind. 242.— Hook. 6 Spec, about 10. BerCx, Mart. II. Bras. Mijrt. 



F. Bot. Mag. t. 5622.— Walp. Rep. ii. 193. 469, t. bo, 56. — Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 



' Amoen. viii. 266, t. 5.— L. r. Suppl. 51.— 158, 1V5, t. 33 A.— Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5069, 



PoiT. Ann. Mus. xiii. 156, t. 5-7.— DC. Prodr. 6239, 6151.— Walp. Ecp. ii. 193 ; v. 756. 



iii. 289. — ^vxcn, Suit, a Buffo n^iy.lZl. — Endl. T Nov. Stirp. Bras. Bee. 35. — Miers, Trans. 



Gen. n. 6327.— Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 441.— B.H. Linn. Soc. xxx. 169, 284, t. 35 C. 

 Gen. 721, n. 64. — Pirigara Aubl. Guian. i. 487, 



