•■^3" NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



nate entire often coriaceous ; flowers in snpra-axillary racemes, 

 lateral or ojijpositifolious, subumbulate or 1 -laterally glomeruliferous 

 or cymiferous. {Africa, Asia and Trcxp. Oceania}) 



40. Kummeria Mart.- — Flowers (nearly of Lasianthera) poly- 

 gamous ; calyx short, 5-dentate. Petals longer, valvate, incurved 

 at apex, marked inside with scarcely elevated lines. Stamens 5, 

 inserted below hypogynous disk ; filaments dilated, contracted at 

 apex above fascicle of hairs ; anthers introrse versatile. Germen 

 laterally surrounded by unequal disk, 1-locular, 2-ovulate; style 

 dilated into a thick discoid stigmatiferous apex. Fruit drupaceous 

 (nearly of Lasianthera), slightly arcuate ; putameu longitudinally 

 sulcate and costate; the dorsal costa thicker than the others,^ 

 testa of conformed seed thin; albumen fleshy longitudinally 2- 

 partite ; embryo apical very small. — A tree ; leaves alternate cori- 

 aceous entire rather scabrous ; flowers * in compound cymiferous 

 axillary racemes ; cymes contracted, finally after anthesis divaricate * 

 from elongate branches. ( Guiana, Bar. BrasilJ') 



47. Pleurisanthes, H. Bn. '. — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Lasianthera), 4-5-merous ; calyx short gamo- 

 phylloid-dentate. Petals slightly longer, valvate, coadunate at 

 apex in spuriously gamopetalous corolla circumcissous at base. ^ 

 Stamens 4, 5 alternipetalous, soon deciduous ; filaments subulate 

 inserted below small annular disk ; anthers introrse ; cells discrete 

 adnate rimose, finally patent. Germen sessile (in male flower effete 

 or abortive) shortly conical, crowned at apex with shortly filiform 

 stigmatiferous papilloe ; ovules 2 ; one often very small or dis- 

 appearing. Fruit? — A tree ; 8 leaves alternate petiojate ovate 

 subcoriaceous penninerved reticulate-veined ; flowers ^° composite- 

 racemose very crowded on lateral sometimes leaf-bearing branches ; 



' Spec, about 10. Wight, Icon. t. 953, 954 of some Umbilliferœ. 

 [Gomphandra). — Thw. Eiiiim. Fl. Znjl. 43 ■■ Small, subglabrous, resembling those of 



{Stemonurus) , 44 [Platea). — Bl. Mus. Lnijd.- Ifiryjjujffi of the same region and of some Zas/«H- 



Bat. i. t. 45 {Stemonurus). — Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. thercœ. 



i. p. i. 793 ; Suppl. i. 342, t. 2.— Seem. Fl. VU. * A genus very near to Lasianthera. 



39, t. 12 {Slemoimnis). ~Oli\. Fl. trop. Afr. " Spec. 1. E. brasiliensis Mart. he. cit.— 



i. 353. — ^Walp. Ann. vii. 5fi7. Biscuphora guianensis MiEKS, loe. cit. 



= HitIi. Fl. Bras. (1837), n. 1216.— Disco- ^ Adansonia, xi. 200. 



phora MiEKs in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 118; ' As in Anipelide. 



Contrib. i. 105, t. 20.— B. H. Gen. 352, n. 23.— » Aspect of Artocarpus. 



H. Bn Adansonia, xi. 194. '" Veiy small greenish. 



3 Whence the fruit resembles the mericarp 



