458 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



8, valvate; accessory teeth or scarcely perceptible. Petals 8. 

 Stamens 24, spuriously 1 -seriate; filaments inserted at bottom of 

 receptacular tube above margin of thin disk ; anthers curved versa- 

 tile. Germen incompletely 1-locular ; placentas basilar, go -ovulate. 

 Capsule enclosed in widened tubular or ventricose receptacle, finally 

 sub- 1-locular, 2-valvate, polyspermous. — A branched tree ; ^ leaves 

 opposite entire, rather scabrous on both sides ; flowers in loose com- 

 pound oppositely-branched racemes ; flowers ^ surrounded by 2, large, 

 widely-rotundate concave bracteoles enclosing the bud.^ {North 

 Brazil^) 



18 ? Diplusodon Pohl.^ — Flowers nearly of Lafoensia, 6-merous; 

 receptacle snbcampanulate. Sepals 6, 3-angular, valvate ; accessory 

 teeth same in number alternate subulate (or sometimes very small). 

 Petals 6, corrugately imbricate. Stamens 12-oo , pluriseriate, in- 

 serted at or below middle of receptacle ; filaments slender subulate ; 

 anthers arcuate or hippocrepiform. Germen enclosed by receptacle ; 

 cells 3, very imperfect ; placentas basilar (of Lafoensia), oo -ovulate. 

 Capsule enclosed by receptacle, loculicidally 2-valvate. Seeds oo , 

 erect, imbricate ; testa alate ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 auriculate at base ; radicle short inferior. — Shrubs or undershrubs, 

 sometimes handsome; leaves opposite or verticillate, subsessile 

 entire, 3-oo -costate; flowers^ axillary solitary or terminal and com- 

 pound ramose, 3-chotomous ; bracteoles or 2. (Brazil, Antilles J) 



II. CEYPTEROmE^. 



19. Crypteronia Bl. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious apetalous. 

 Male flower: receptacle cupuliform. Sepals 4, 5, 3-angular and 

 stamens as many alternate, perigynously inserted at margin ; fila- 

 ments incurved in bud, finally straight exserted ; anthers basifixed 

 subdidymous, at apex introrsely or sublaterally rimose ; connective 



' " Habit of Zagerstraemia ." Verhandl. der Bot. Ve?: d. Prov. Brandenb. (1874) 



2 Purple, showy. 10, 23. — JDiplodon Sprexg. Gen. n. 1963. — 



^ Representing a spurious calyx. Friedlandia Cham, et Schlchtl, Linn<Ba, ii. 348. 



^ Spec. 1. P.florida Yo^i.,loc. cit. — Diibycea DC. Diss. ined. (1827). 



5 Flora (1827) 150 ; Fl. Bras. Ic. 82, t. 66-81. ^ White, pink or yellow. 



—DC. Prodr. iii. 94 c— Spach, Suit a Buffon, 7 Spec. 30-40. A. S.-H. Fl. Bras. Mer. iii. 143, 



iv. 430.— ExDL. Gen. n. 6161.— B. H. Gen. 781, t. 188, 189.— P(epp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 



n. 16. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 355.— Kcehne, ii. 66, t. 192,— Walp. Rep. ii. 112 ; v. 675. 



