102 NAT en AL JIL^TORY OF PLANTS. 



usually 3, auterior, imbricated (2 posterioi* wanting). Other 

 characters of Salvertia. Seeds sometimes outwardly gossypiuous. 

 Glabrous, or tomentose, trees or shrubs ; leaves verticil'ate or more 

 usually ojiposite ; stipules small, subulate ; flowers' in sub-simple or 

 more often ramified cymiferous racemes; pedicels 2-bracteolate. 

 {Trop. South America. ~) 



3. Qualea Aubl.^ — Flowers nearly of Vochysia (or Salvertia) ; 

 petal 1, anterior ungniculate, usually widely obcordate or obovoid.* 

 Stamens and gynseceum of Suluertica' ; germeu incompletely or 

 comjjletely 3, 4-locular ; ovules on each placenta co, 2-seriate oblique, 

 oftener scarcely anatropous, produced above in ascending wing. 

 Capsule loculicidal, 3-valved ; columella usually ; seeds oo , 2- 

 seriate imbricated subascondeut, long produced above in a wing. 

 Other characters of Salvertia — Resinous trees; leaves opposite or 

 vertieillate ; petiole 2-glaiidular at base; flowers^ in lateral and 

 terminal racemes ofteu ramified-compound. {Brazil and Guiana.'^') 



4 ? Callisthene Mart. ^' — Flowers nearly of Q/ialea ; germen 

 cells 3, GO ovulate. Capsule ovoid, crustaceous or ligneous, some- 

 times sub-drupaceous ; endocarp separating fi-om subcoriaceous 

 exocarp and septicidally, or loculicidally 3-6-valved ; valves solute 

 from thickly 3-agonal semiferous and persistent columella. Seeds co , 

 2-seriate descendent, produced on both sides lq a wing; embryo 

 and other characters of Qualea. — Resinous trees ; leaves sub-2- 

 stichous, ovate or oblong ; stipules minute ; flowers ^ axillary or 

 lateral, solitary pedunculate. ( Brazil.^) 



1 Large or rather large, beautiful yellow, stamens sometimes largo, 2 ; both fertile or one 



fraorant. more or less petaloid. 



- Spec, about 40. — Mart, et "ivcc Nor. Geii. * Yellow, pink or blue, rather large, beautiful ; 



el Spec. i. 139, t. 83-92.— Pohl. Fl. Bran. ii. 18, petal deciduous, 



t. 111-119. — Walp. iJe/). ii. 69; Aim. \i. all. « Spec about 25Mabt. iVoi". Gen. et Sped, t, 



3 Giiiaii. i. 5, t. 1, 2. — A. S. H. in Mem. 77-81. — Urichk. Fl. lù-ot. t. 2S2. — "W ALr. Jlep. 



Mus. -vi. 265.— DC. Prodi: iii. 28.— Endl. Gen. ii. {SchKec/iia), 915 ; Ann. ii. 527. 



n. 6069.— B. H. Gen. 976, n. 2.-H. Bn. in ^ Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 123, t. 75, 76.— DC. 



Payer Fam. Nat. Zô2.—Amphihclna Mart. Prodr. iii. 25. — Esdl. Ocn. n. 6067. — B. H. 



Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 127, t. 77. — DC. Prodr. iii. Gen. 976, n. 1. — H. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 351, 



26. — Agardhia Sprexg. Syst. i. 4 (nee Caiir. — Callisthenia Spkeng. Gen. n. 2'?. 



nee Gr). " Usually small or rather large. 



■• Spur short or in Q. ecalcnrata Mart. ' Spec. 5, 6. 

 qu;c ScIiHcchia Enul. {Gen. n. 6070), with 



