60 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



42. Behuria Cham. ^—Flowers 5, 6-merous (nearly of ZZ^w^^ma) ; 

 sepals mucli larger foliaceous oblong serrulate. Petals 6, 6, obovate, 

 much contorted. Stamens 10-12 (of Huberia) ; with a thin straight 

 or curved dorsal appendage. Germen free except quite at base, 

 surrounded at vertex with a shortly lobed annular corona. Fruit 

 capsular, clothed to middle with receptacle, 5, 6-valved ; seeds . . . ? 

 — A glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire, 3-5-nerved; flowers in few-flowered foliaceous cymes (?), 

 2-bracteolate. (South, Brazil.^) 



43 ? Pachyloma DC.^ — Flowers 4-merous (nearly of Huberia) ; 

 receptacle turbinato-campanulate, produced beyond semiadnate germen. 

 Calyx large truncate, setoso-4-denticulate. Petals obovate, much 

 contorted. Stamens 8, 2-morphous, the larger alternipetalous ; an- 

 thers in bud much incurved subulate compressed; connective produced, 

 furnished laterally with 2 linear subulate auricles ; ^ connective of 

 smaller oppositipetalous not produced ; anthers at base thickly and 

 shortly 2-auriculate. Germen 4-celled; style slender exserted, at 

 apex stigmatose punctiform. Capsule enclosed by receptacle, 4-valved ; 

 seeds curved or cochleate rugulose. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves oppo- 

 site or ternate, entire, 5-nerved; flowers in terminal ramosely 3- 

 chotomous cymes. (North. Brazil,^) 



44 ? Acanthella Hook, f.^ — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle sub- 

 campanulate. Sepals' lanceolate, persistent. Petals 4, contorted. 

 Stamens 8, subequal ; filaments elongate ; anthers Hnear curved, 1- 

 porous ; connective not produced, at base 2-tuberculate within. 

 Germen narrow stipitate, 4-celled; style thin, at apex stigmatose not 

 dilated. Fruit enclosed by receptacle, capsular, oblong, 4-valved ; 

 seeds'* oblong imbricate, girt with broad pellucid membranous wing. — 

 A ramose shrub ; bark white ; leaves (small) rosulate at top of twigs 



1 Liniieca, ix. 376. — Naud. A/iu. Se. Nat. ser. ^ Spec. 2. Mart. Nov. Gen. ef Sp. iii. 140, t. 

 3, XV. 338.— B. H. Gen. 748, n. 52.—Tm.Melast. 273 {Heteronoma).—l^Avr). Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, 

 65, t. 5, fig. 51. xiii. 302 {Mexia). 



2 Spec. 1. £. insignis Cham. Ice. cit. ^ Gen. 7 18, n. 53. — Tri. Melast. 65, t. 5, fig. 54, 



3 Prodr. iii. 122. — Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, " According to Hook. " lanceolate, setose at 

 xiii. 302. — Tri. Melast. 64, t. 5, fig. 50. — Uro- apex," but sometimes shorter ; the incorrect fig. 

 desmium Naud. loe. cit. xv. 338 ; xvi. t. 25. — of Decaisne {Oliv. tab. fig. a) is taken from 

 B. H. Gen. 748, n. 50. Triana, and misrepresented ; the lobes of the 



* Connective said to be long-spurred poste- calyx being almost entirely suppressed (Cfr. H. 



riorly, a character certainly not constant in the Bn. Nouv. Obs. Oliv. 29 tab. fig. BB^) 



specimen seen by us. 8 Rather large, compressed. 



