496 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



191. Paracephselis H. Bn.' — Flowers spuriously capitate, 5- 

 merous (nearly of Naiidea) ; receptacle obovoid. Calyx persistent ; 

 lobes 5, ovate-acute. Corolla ^ and stamens . . . ? Germen 2-celled ; 

 disk epigynous orbicular ; style . . . ? Ovules in cells few (6-8), 

 inserted on a peltate placenta orbicularly affixed to septum, suborbi- 

 cular compressed. Fruit . . . ? — A shrub densely tomentose in every 

 part ; branches 2 -furcate, at apex bearing 2 opposite, petiolate leaves, 

 cordate at base, obtuse at apex, thick soft, scabrous above, velutinous 

 beneath ; nerves rather prominent reticulate ; stipules acute ; glome- 

 rules gathered in a capituliform globe ; flowers shortly pedicellate, 

 free, 1-bracteate, 2-bracteolate. (Madagascar.^) 



192. Sarcocephalus Afzel.^ — Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly 

 of Nauclea) ; germens inferior adnate in hollows of receptacle and 

 continuous with it. Calyces free, truncate or dentate ; teeth appen- 

 diculate or muticous (Platanocarpiis ^). Corolla (of Nauclea) imbricate 

 or more rarely valvate. Stamens of Nauclea ; anthers oftener sub- 

 sessile. Germen inferior, 2-celled or 4-cellulate QhoYe(AnthocepJialus ^); 

 ovules in cells 1- oo, inserted on an entire or 2-lobed placenta depend- 

 ing from top of septum, descending. Fruit compound (syncarpous), 

 consisting of receptacle confluent with exocarps ; flesh sometimes 

 scanty (Cephcdiclhim,'^ Breonia^); putamens 1- oo-spermous, membra- 

 nous, rather hard or crustaceous. Seeds crustaceous, granular or 

 cancellate, minutely arillate, albuminous. — Trees or shrubs, rarely 

 climbing; leaves opposite, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, sometimes 

 large, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar various, deciduous or caducous ; 

 inflorescences^ bracteateor ebracteate, axillary or terminal; peduncles 

 oftener long rigid, sometimes bearing above {Breonia) a spathiform 

 involucre surrounding the inflorescence and rising above it in long- 

 horned apex. (Trop. Asia, Oceania and Africa, Madagascar?^) 



Ani). Mhs. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 184. — Korth. Verh. ii. 29, n. 1. — Hook. Fl. Lid. iii. Tl,~ Cephalina 



Nat. Gesch. 162, t. 33, 34.— Thw. Enum. Fl. Tn6^Ts.et^cy.vh\. Beskr. 105 {ind.: A nthocepha- 



Zeyl. 138. — Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Bunn. ii. 68. — Ins Rich. Breonia Rich. Cephalidium Rich. PL:- 



'Be^th. Niffer Fl. t. 42. — Hook. Icon. t. 781. — tanccarpus KomH.). 



HiERN, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 41.— Karst. Fl. Col. * Korth. Verh. Xat. Gesch. lo'?, t. 32. 



153, t. 180 {Nauclea).— yN'xi.v. Eep. ii. 512, 943 ; 6 k^ch. Bub. 157 (part).— Exdl. Gen. n. 3236. 



Ann. i. 378. — B. H. Gen. ii. 29, n. 2.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 23. 



1 Adansonia, xii. 315. " Rich. Rub. 210.— Endl. Gen. 1393. 



'The younger valvate?; apex of lobes in- * jjich. Rub. 210. — DC. Prodr. iv. 620. — 



curved. Endl. Gen. n. 3285.— B. H. Gen. ii. 32, n. 8.— 



' Spec. 1. P. tiliacea H. Bn. loe. cit. H. Bx. Adansonia, xii. 311. 



^ Ex Sab. Trans. Hort. See. v. 422, t. 18. — ^ Rightly compound-glomeralate ; flowers 



LiKDL. op. cit. vii. 56.— Rich. Rub. 211.— DC. white, yellow, golden or red. 



i'»Wr.iv.367.— Endl. G^f».n. 3281.— B.H.6^^». lo Spec, about 15. Hoxb. Fl. Lid. ii. 121 



