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vegetation are analogous to those of Blakea. To this genus we refer 

 as simple sections Loreya,^ having the flowers of Belinda, pentamerous, 

 but smaller, with a truncate or finely dentate calyx, and Heteroneuron 

 nigricans,^ which is a Loreija with penninerved leaves darkening more 

 than others by desiccation. Thus conceived, Bellucia comprises 

 some fifteen frutescent or arborescent species.^ 



Mouriri^ (fig. 41, 42), which has been made a tribe of this family, 

 consists of plants, in our view, very near Bellucia, particularly to 

 those whose flowers are small and pentamerous, as Loreya. They 

 diff'er essentially only by their ovules. These inserted on a small 

 placenta at the base of the internal angle of the two, three, four or 

 five ovarian cells, are less numerous, collaterally ascending, with the 

 micropyle directed downwards and outwards. In some species only 

 from two to five are found in each cell. The diplostemonous 

 androecium is formed of long stamens with inflexed filaments, th^ 

 anthers of which are formed fundamentally like those of Bellucia, 

 with a posterior basilar horn, surmounted by a depressed gland. 

 The fruit is a rounded berry, and the seeds enclose a fleshy embryo, 

 with short radicle and plano-convex cotyledons. Mouriri consists of 

 small trees and shrubs from the tropical regions of America. The 

 leaves are opposite, entire, coriaceous, 3-nerved, with nervures often 

 only slightly visible. The flowers^ are in umbelliform cymes, axillary 

 or united on a small common axis originating in the axil of a leaf. 

 Some thirty species are described.^ 



To the preceding genera we annex Axinandra'^ (fig. 43) hitherto 

 referred to another family.^ It has 5-6-merous flowers, much 



IDC. Prodr. iii. 178; Mem. i. 73.— Endl. —B.B.. Gen. n2,n. UZ.—Tm. Melast. 153.— 



Gen. n. 6253. — Naud. loc. cit. xviii. 109. — B. H. Olisbea DO. Prodr. iii. 31. — Guildingia Hook. 



Gen. 768, n. 120.— Tki. Melust. 142. Bot. Misc. i. 122, t. 30. 



2 Hook. f. Gen. 768, n. 121. ^ Small, white, pink or yellowish. 



^ Kv^i.. Guian. 420, 421, t. 163,164 {Mela- 6 Miq. LinncBa, xviii. 290; St. Surin. 42, 



stoma), 525, t. 210 (Blakea).— Se^u. Votj. Herald, t. 11. — Tuss. Fl. Ant. iv. t. 37. — Benth. Hr.ok. 



Bot. 122, t. 26.— Dox, Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 326 Journ. Bot. ii. 21, 316; Sulph. 97, t. 36.— 



[Blakea).— Kkvl^t. Fl. Columb. i. t. 87 {Axinan- Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 92, 183 ; PI. Wright, 



tliera). — MiQ. Lvincea, xviii. 619. 183. — Hook. Ic. PL t. 515 {Mouriria) . — Walp. 



''AuBL. Guian. i. 452, t. 180.— Lamk. ///. Eep. ii. 149; v. 725; Ann. ii. 612; iv. 805 



t. 360. — PoiR. Diet. iv. 334. — Petaloma Sw. {Mouriria). 



Prodr. 73 ; FL Ind. Occ. ii. 831, t. U.—Mouri- 7 Thw. ITooL Ktw Journ. vi. 66, t. 1 C, Enum. 



ria J. Gen. 320.— DC. Prodr. iii. 7.— Endl. Gen. PL ZeyL 122.— B. H. Gen. 784, n. 28.— H. BxV. 



n. 6270. — Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ber. 3, xii. t. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 126. 



10; xviii. 282. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 357. ^ Lythrariaceariim gen. anomalum (B. H.). 



