198 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



scales. Anthers 2-locular, rimosn ; exterior or all extrorse. Germen 

 3-locular ; cells l-ovulate ; stylo erect, distinct, thickly 3-lobed, 

 stigmatiferous at apex ; lobes obcordate-ovate, reflexed, 2-fid, stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Capsule 3-coccous ; cocci 2-valved ; seeds 

 albuminous smooth exarillate. — A tree ; indumentum simple ; leaves 

 alternate exstipulate petiolate entire pcnninerved ; flowers ^ axillary 

 to upper leaves or terminal, subsolitary or in few flowered (spimous ?) 

 racemes.^ ( Warm America, N. and S?) 



40. Crotonogyne J. Muell.* — Flowers diœcious. Male calyx 

 gamophyllous, sc;ircely unequally broken, valvate. Petals 5-7, con- 

 cave, inwardly at base hii-siite with glands ; prœfloration contorted. 

 Glands 5-7, glabrous thick, unequally fusiform, alternating with 

 petals. Stamens 3 times more numerous than petals,- verticillate, 3- 

 serrate, 5-7 exterior evidently shorter opposite petals, same number 

 alternating with these larger ; and the same number quite interior 

 also opposite petals ; filaments connate at base only, afterwards free ; 

 anthers 2-locular, introrse, 2-rimose. Female calyx thick, 5 -partite ; 

 lobes unequal furnished at margin with 2-6 verricose glands de- 

 pressed scutillate ; sestivation imbricate. Petals (male) 5-6 slightly 

 thicker, caducous ; prisfloration contorted. Disk hypogynous an- 

 nular membranous subentire. Germen 3-locular. Style erect 

 afterwards 3-partite ; lobes 4-partite, teeth subulate reflexed. Ovules 

 in each cell solitary obturated ; micropyle extrorse superior. Cap- 

 sules 3-coccous ; seed approaching arillate. — A shrub, scantily lepi- 

 dote-squamose ; leaves alternate petiolate penninerved reticulate-veined 

 above base patellate-glandular ; stipules 2 ; male flowers in axillary 

 interrupted spicate glomerules ; female long pedicellate in few-flowered 

 (4-6) axillary racemes.^ {Trop. West Africa.'^) 



41. Manniophyton J. Muell.'' — Flowers diœcious; receptacle 

 rather convex. Male calyx valvate, unequally 2-3-broken. Corolla 

 high gamopetalous m-ceolate, shortly 5-lobed. Glands 5, alterni-- 

 petalous thick. Stamens co (12-20), filaments free unequal; an- 



' Purpurescent whitisli villose. habit, a speoieb. Crotonis cob. Eutropia: longe 



^ A genus with male flowers ; recalls some reced., sed calj'x masc. irreg. rumpendus et 



Bixaceœ. stam. in alabastr. recta." (M. Arg.) 



^Spec. 1. O. nutans Rohr. loc. cit. ^ Spec. 1. C. Mamtiana M. Aro. loc. eit. 



♦ In Flora (1861), .535 ; Prodi: 720. ' In Flora (1864), 530; Proclr. 719, 

 ' " Chaxaot. fere omnes ut in Crotone, nee 



