3 78 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or less elongate cupule adnate within to bottom of corolla, above free 

 and there incurved or occasionally produced to a short ligule ; anthers 

 of all fertile, more or less incurved in the bud. Germen inferior, 

 3-5-locular ; ovules in cells oo , ascending. Fruit oblong cylindrical, 

 dehiscing by an apical often hemispherical circumscissile operculum. 

 Seeds few, inserted round a central column on incrassate subbasilar 

 sporophores, long-winged below. Embryo exalbuminous contortu- 

 plicate ; radicle very large cylindrical arcuately ascending ; cotyle- 

 dons broadly foliaceous contortuplicate incumbent. — Trees ; leaves 

 alternate, oftener serrate ; flowers in terminal ramose racemes ; bracts 

 and bracteoles small, caducous.^ — (Trop, Avierica.^) 



68. Couratari Aubl.^ — Flowers of Cariniana, oftener 6-merous ; 

 ligule of androecium elongate, loaded externally at apex with crowded 

 stamens sterile (?) but here and there provided with small (well de- 

 fined) anthers. Fruit, etc., of Gariniana; operculum nearly equal to 

 pericarp. Seeds circumalate ; embryo exalbuminous contortuplicate. 

 — Lofty trees ; leaves alternate entire ; inflorescence, etc., of Gari- 

 nianaJ^ {Trop. America,^) 



59. Couroupita Aubl.^ — Flowers nearly of Gouratari^ 6-merous ; 

 ligule of androecium elongate large incurved fleshy subpetaloid cucul- 

 late. Stamens nearly all either subbasilar, or fertile at top of ligule ; 

 anthers of all basifixed erect, longitudinally 2-rimose. Germen large 

 partly superior, 5-84ocular; style short thick; cells oo -ovulate. 

 Fruit sub globose coriaceous-woody, indehiscent, ring-marked with 

 scar of marginal receptacle, umbilicate at apex. Seeds oo , imbedded 

 in pulp, exalate; embryo, etc., of GouratarL — Trees ; leaves alternate, 



* Perhaps better a sect, of Courataris, differing 172, 301, t. 36 B), of wliich one Amazonian spe- 



only in the ligule being shorter, the stamens all cies is described (C. anomala Miers) as having 



fertile and the fruit only sometimes alate. a 6-merous flower, unknown to us, a nerved 



2 Spec. 7 (ex Miers) . Raddi, Mem. Soc. Ital. helmet-shaped ligula, produced at apex to an 

 Moden. Phys. xviii. 403.— Mart. Flora, xx. 127 incurved subulate lamina, allied to this ? 

 {Coiiratans). — Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 610, ^ Spec, about 7 (ex Miers). Velloz. Fl. Flum. 

 t. 78-82 [Coicrataris). v. t. 86 (Zrc^^^Au).— Cambess. A. S.-M. Fl. Bras, 



3 Guian. ii. 723, t. 290.— A 'Ricn.Ann. Sc. Nat. Mer. ii. 274, t. 159. 



Ber. 1, i. 321, t. 21.— Poit. Mem. Mus. xiii. 159, « Guian. 708, t. 282.— PoiT. M^m. Mm. xiii. 



t.8.— DC. FrodrM. 29i.SpACK, Suit, a Buf 0)1, 152, t. 78.— DC. Prodr. iii. 293.— Tubp. TJicif. 



iv. 198.— Endl. Ge?i. n. 6331.— H. Bn. Fai/er Sc. Nat. Atl.t. 227-229.— SvAcn, Suit, a Buf on, 



Fam.Nat. 370.— B. H. Gen. 722, n. 66 (part).— iv. 196.— Endl. Gen. n. 6334.— H. Bn. Payer 



Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 168, 279, t. 35 B, Fam. Nat. 370.— B. H. Gen. 722, n. 67.— Miers, 



62. — Lecythopsis Scu-R. Denkschr. Acad. MUnch. Trans. Linn. Soc. ^xx. 139, 188, t. 33B. — Pon- 



vii. 241. — Berg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 503, t. 7, toppidana Scop. Introd. n. 849. — Elscholtzia 



75, 76.— B. H. Gen. 723, n. 68. Eich. (not W.). 

 "* Is Cercophora Miers {Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 



