VUCUYsIACEM. 



GENERA. 



I. SALVERTIE^. 



1. Salvertia A. S. H. — Flowers liermaplirodite irregular; 

 receptacle cupular. produced at back in free hollow spur. Sepals 5, 

 iuserted at margiu of receptacle, imbricated. Petals 5, alternatiug 

 with, the sepals sub-eqiial, imbricated. Stamens 5, with the periauth 

 slightly perigynous, oppositipetalous, 2 posterior ofteu aborting; 

 lateral small, sterile, A'aried in form, unequal ; anterior fertile 

 with subulate filaments ; connective of basifixed anthers rather 

 Avide ; cells linear-adnate at margiu, introrsely rimose. Germen 

 free ; cells 3 (2 posterior) 2 -ovulate ; style elongated, gradually 

 thickening from base, oblique, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules iuserted 

 at inner angle, collaterally descendent, incompletely anatropous ; 

 raphe linear ; micropyle extrorse superior. Capsule ovate-3-quetrous, 

 loculicidal 3-valved ; valves septiferous at middle ; central columella 

 ; seed oblong compressed, produced above in a wing ; embryo 

 cxalbuminous ; cotyledons foliaceous, spirally convolute ; radicle 

 short superior. — Eesinous trees ; branches thick ; leaves verticUlate, 

 simple, coriaceous, petiolate ; stipules inconsi^icuons (?) ; flowers 

 (rather large) in terminal compound ramified compound racemes ; 

 pedicels 2-bracteolate. {Brasilia.) 



2. Vochysia J.^ — Flowers nearly of Salvertia ; sepals 5, very 

 unequal (the posterior larger, the others small). Petals 1, or more 



I. Qen. 424 [Vochisia). — A. S. H. in Mem. anteponend. ?). — Fbc/i^aVANDELL. in ifœ»i. jSer. 



Mm. TJ. 166. — DC. Prodi-, iii. 26. — Spach, Suit. Bras. 69, t. 6. — Salmonia Neck. Elem. n. 808. — 



à jBi«/oh, vii. 321.— Endl. (7««. n. 6071.--B. H. CmiiUm-ia Schreb. Gen. n. \\. - Struckeria 



Gen. 976, n. 4.— H. Bn. in Pai/cr Fain. Nat. Velloz. Fl. Fliim. i. 8, t. 20. 

 351. — Voc/i^ Avhh. Giiiait. i. 18, t. 6 (nom. 



