438 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



of tubular-hypocrateriform corolla 5 (or 6, 7), obtuse, contorted, 

 finally open ; throat villose. Stamens as many alternate, inserted in 

 tube ; filaments short ; anthers dorsifixed, apiculate ; cells 2, free 

 below ; connective thickened at back. Disk situate in sterile germen 

 cupular. Style fusiform, 2-5-dentate at apex. Female flower . . . ? 

 Fruit fleshy, crowned with accrete calyx ; cells 4, oo -spermous. Seeds 

 (immature) compressed ; embryo . . . ? — A small pubescent tree ; 

 leaves opposite glabrous or variously clothed oblong-lanceolate ; 

 stipules intrapetiolar connate in a sheath finally fissous ; male flowers ^ 

 in terminal corymbiform cymes ; female solitary.^ {Brazil.') 



90 ? Schachtia Karst.* — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Amaioua). 

 ^^Male calyx tubular, bearing 5 distant and erect hairs at truncate 

 mouth, persistent. Lobes of hypocrateriform corolla 6-9, contorted, 

 lanceolate, open. Stamens 6-9 (sterile in female flower), inserted in 

 tube; anthers dorsifixed sessile subacute enclosed. Disk annular. 

 Germen in female flower 2-celled, oo -ovulate ; placentae axile tumid ; 

 branches of short style 2, thick. Berry corticate hispid; cells 2, 

 many-seeded. Seeds lenticular smooth, immerged in pulp ; albumen 

 copious ; cotyledons of minute embryo foliaceous. — A hirsute tree ; 

 internodes tumid at apex ; leaves opposite obovate-lanceolate ; petiole 

 short ; stipules intrapetiolar connate in a sheath finally fissous and 

 deciduous ; flowers ^ terminal at top of short axillary twigs ; males 

 soHtary; females cymose, shortly pedicellate." ^ (Columbia.'^) 



91. Stachyarrhena Hook, f.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of 

 Amaioua) ; male calyx cupular truncate or obtusely 5-lobed. Lobes 

 of tubular subcampanulate coriaceous corolla 5, contorted ; throat 

 villose. Stamens 5, inserted in throat ; anthers subsessile apiculate. 

 Germen sterile; style short fusiform pilose. *' Germen of female 

 flower 4-00 -celled ; ovules oo , inserted outside revolute lamellae of 

 placenta. Berry ^ shortly pedicellate, crowned with calyx ; pedicels 



1 Males moderate. 5 White, rather large. 



2 Rather a sect, of Amaioua ? ^ A genus almost unknown to us ; whether a 

 2 Spec. 1. B, psychotrioides DC, — Viviania sect, of Amaioua or Billiottia ? 



psyehotrioides Coll. — MelavojJsidium nigrum ^ S]^cc. \. S.dioica Karst. loc. cif. 



Cbls (ex DC), 8 Icon. t. 1868 ; Gen. ii. 80, n. 146. 



* LinnoM xxx. 156 ; Fl. Colomh. i. 89, t. 44. — ^ " Size of a cherry," according to figure, 



B. H. G$H. ii. 80, n. 147. crowned with tubular calyx. 



