19n NATURAL niSTORY OF PLANTS. 



in number, opposite sepals alternating with stamens round thick 

 rudiment of gyufeceum and shortly inserted. Stamens fi'ee ; filaments 

 refracted-incurved ; anthers in bud when younger, extrorse ; cells 

 adnata to margin of rather wide connective, scarcely erect, introrse, 

 and finally versatile. Sepals in female flowers 5, longer, deciduous. 

 Germen 3-locular, surrounded at base by shortly urceolate disk, 

 sometimes furnished with 1-5 staminodes. Style at apex thickly 3- 

 lobed ; lobes short 2-fid, ovules in cell solitary obturate. Capsule 

 globose .3-coccate. — Trees ; juice milky ; leaves alternate, petiolate 

 2 -stipulate entire, penninerved ; flowers in axillary and terminal 

 racemose cymiferous clusters, the female in central cymuîe short 

 and thick pedicellate.^ {North Brazil.^) 



24. Cunuria H. Bn."' — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; sepals 5 in 

 female flower rather thicker, imbricate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate 

 round rudiment of gynceceum ; filaments connate at base ; the ex- 

 terior shorter ; anther introrse, 2-rimose. Female floral disk evo- 

 lute, the margin divided into G acuminate teeth (staminodes ?). Ger- 

 men 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle extrorse superior thickly 

 obtui-ated; styles 3-partite branches thick widely 2 -lobed recurved. 

 Fruit capsular, 3-coccate ; seeds exarillate. — A tree (or shrub ?) ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate ; limb entire coriaceous penninerved, 2-glandular 

 at base ; male flowers cymose, the female congested in glomerules at 

 the apex of the branches involucrate with bracts. {North Brazil.'^) 



25. Mischodon Thw."' — Flowers diœcious ; receptacle convex. 

 Sepals G, 2-seriate imbricate. Stamens G, op^wsite sepals ; filaments 

 free, inserted outside below rl^dimentary capitate 3-agonal germen ; 

 anther extrorse or sublaterally 2-rimose. Germen free, 3-locular ; 

 cells 1-ovulate, styles 3-partite lobes dilated at apex sub-2-lobed. 

 Cai)sule 3-coccate ; seed smooth exarillate. — A ramified tree ; younger 

 branches sub-4-agonal puberulate ; leaves opposite or 3-4-nate 

 simple penninerved petiolate ; male flowers in slender ramified ter- 

 minal racemes and axillary to the uppey leaf ; the female in thicker 

 terminal slightly ramified racemes. {Zeylania.^) 



' A genus not differing from Elateriospeimum. Bn. foe. cit. — Clusiophylliim Spruceaiium M. Aro. 



■ Spec. 2, 3. H. Bn. in Adaiisoiiia, iv. 286. loc. cit. 



3 In Adansoiiia, iv. 287.— M. Aro. Prodi: ' In Sook. Journ. (1854), 299, t. 10 B ; Eimm. 



1123.— Clusiop/,!//liim M. Arg. in Flora (1864), PI. Zeyl. 275.— H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 335.— M. Aro. 



518. Prodr. 1125. 



* C. Sprticeana H. Bn. he. cit. — Micraiidra ^ Spec. 1. M. Zeylanicum Th'w-. he. cit. 

 Cunuri H. Bn. he. cit. — Pogonophora Ctinuri H. 



