422 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or 5-12, more rarely 12-20 (or sometimes (?) to 40) ; filaments con- 

 nate in tube to apex or to greater or less height, sometimes almost 

 entirely free {(Edematopus)] anthers various in form, either obcuneate, 

 finally recurved and bearing marginal cells, or more or less ovate or 

 oblong and bearing introrsely rimose cells. Staminodes oftener 4-6, 

 hypogynous; filaments free thick or coraplanate; cells of anther 

 (oftener sterile) conspicuous lateral, effete. Germen (in male flower 

 rudimentary small or 0) sessile, 4-5-locular ; style short, presently 

 dilated to disciform more or less lobed stigma. Ovules in cells (com- 

 plete or incomplete) 2-4, ascending, oblique ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior, or 5-oo , subhorizontal. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, finally 

 capsularly dehiscent, septicidal. Seeds in cells few or 1, variously 

 arillate ; embryo, etc., of Cliisia. — Trees or shrubs ; habits and leaves 

 of Ohisia ; flowers small in terminal more or less compound ramose- 

 cymiferous racemes. (Tropical America,) — See p. 398. 



3. Havetia H. B. K. — Flowers dioecious small (nearly of Quapoija), 

 4-merous. Sepals and petals decussate. Stamens 4 (in female flower 

 short thick sterile and connate in a cupule), united in a thick sub- 

 globose mass ; filaments thick, externally convex, internally angular ; 

 anthers vertically imbedded ; cells suborbicular, 3-nate, internally 

 valvicide. Germen 4-locular; style lobes stigmatose subsessile. 

 Ovules in cells 2-4 ; inferior ascending ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior; raphe introrse or lateral. Capsule thick septicidal. Seeds 

 clothed with a lobulate aril springing both from the hilum and from 

 the micropyle ; embryo exalbuminous of Clusia (or Quapoya). — A 

 tree; habit, leaves, inflorescence, etc., of Quapoya. [Neiv Granada,) 

 —See p. 400. 



4 ? Pilosperma Tjii. and Pl. — Flowers dioecious ? males . . . ? 

 Sepals and petals of f( male flower 4, decussate. Disk cupuliform ; 

 externally oo -striate (staminodes ?). Gyneecium and fruit nearly of 

 Havetia] seeds in cells 5, 6, solitary or oftener 2-nate, descending, 

 surrounded with cristate aril ; raphe subdorsal. — A tree ; habit, 

 leaves, inflorescence, etc., of Quapoya or Eavetia, (New Granada.) 

 —See p. 400. 



5 ? Clusiella Tki. and Pl. — Flowers dioecious; males . . . ? Calyx 

 of female flowers imbricate, 5-phyllous. Petals 5, longer, contorted ; 

 the exterior sometimes subauriculate. Staminodes oo , minute, united 



