LIN ACE JE. 



aucl au axilè embryo with plauo-couvex cotyledons aud siiperior 

 radicle. Erijthroxjjlon, of which some fifty species ' are known, con- 

 sists of shrubs or bushes from all warm regions. The leaves are 

 alternate, entire, penninerved,- petiolate, accompanied by intrapetiolar 



Eriithruxi/lon Cuca. 



per 



Kg. 85. Androccum and gyuiuccuin. 



Fig. SO. Gj niocoum. 



stipules. The flowers are solitary or uuited in small buuches of cymes 

 in the axils of the leaves or the bracts which upon some branches 

 take their place. 



Beside Eri/throxi/lon has been placed Aneulophus Africana^ which 

 with nearly the same perianth has petals longer and more reflexcd, 

 traversed within upou the mid-line by a jsro minent rib, a monadel|)hous 

 diplostemonous androceum, and an ovary with thi-ee or four biovu- 

 late cells surmounted by a like number of distinct styles. It is a 

 glabrous shrub having opposite leaves with intrapetiolar connate 

 stipules and flowers in axillary cymes. 



HOUMIRI SEEIES. 



Houmiri* (fig. 88-97) has regular hermaphi-odite flowers organised 

 nearly like those of Ixonanthes. The convex receptacle bears a 



I Cav. Diss. viii. 399.— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et 

 Spec. V. 175, t. 453.— A. S. H. PI. Us. Brass, t. 

 69 ; Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. t. 102, 103.— Deless. Ic. 

 Sel. iii. t. 28.— Wight et AR>f. Prodr. i. 106.— 

 RoxB. PI. Coromand. t. 88.— "Wight, III. t. 48 ; 

 Icon. t. 97.— A Rich. Fl. Ciih. t. 27.— Griseb. 

 Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 113.— Haev. et Sond. J'/. Cap. 

 i. 233.— Olit. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 273.— Benth. 

 Fl. Aitstral. i. 283. — Hook, in Bot. Mar/. Coinp. 

 ii. t. 21.— Walp. lirp. i. 403 ; ii. 842; Ann. ii. 

 195 ; vii. 463. 



^ Often marked within by a surface of a par- 



ticular colour Umited by two curved lines, eon- 

 cave on the side of the midrib, and depending 

 on the estivation of the limb .as in certain 

 species of Terii.it rœmiacea;. 



■' Benth. Gen. 244, 987, n. 8.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. 274. — ? ? Caiicanthus FoRSK. Fl. JEg.- 

 Arab. 91 (ex Benth.). 



•■ .VuBL. Gidan. i. 564, t. 225.— H. Bx. in 

 Ad'Uisonta x. 368. — Humiria J. Gen. 435. — DC. 

 Prodr. i. 610.— Sumhiiim Mart. Nov. Gen. et 

 Spec. ii. 142, t. 198, 199.— Endl. Gen.n. 5486.— 

 B. H. Gen. 247, n. 2.— H. B.v. in Adanionia, i. 



