334 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



membranous or siibcoriaceous ; flowers in axillary subcorymbose 

 cymiferous pedimculate racemes. [Trop. West. Jfricà?) 



55. Platea Bl." — Flo-wers polygamous-dioecious (nearly of 

 Lasianthera), 5-merous ; sepals small free, imbricated. Petals valvate, 

 caducous. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; anthers ovoid, 2-dymous. 

 Germen and ovules of 3Iappia (or Lasianthera) ; style wide discoid 

 dilated, sometimes oblique, stigmatiferous above and depressed at 

 centre. Drupe oblong ; putamen ligneous ; embryo albuminous 

 straight (?) — Trees; leaves alternate entii-e coriaceous, sometimes 

 with the younger branches leprose-rufescent ; flowers in axillary 

 more or less ramified interrupted cymiferous racemes ; female racemes 

 much shorter. {Ind. Arclh'^) 



50. Villaresia E. and Pav.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Gonocaryum); sepals 5, imbricated. Petals same 

 in number alternate, inwardly eostate, imbricated or iuflexo-valvate 

 at apex. Stamens 5 ; filaments subulate at apex, at base complanato, 

 alternate with petals and coherent ; anthers eordate-reniform in- 

 trorse. Germen of Go7iocarf/um (or Mappia), 2-oY\\\ate; style short 

 thick, stigmatose oblique recurved fimbriate at apex. Drupe oblong 

 or ellipsoidal ; putamen partly divided within by a longitudinal 

 semiseptum ; seed descendent, having a vertical process between the 

 ventral groove ; albumen fleshy corrugate ; embryo minute subapical. 

 — Trees or shrubs high scandent ; leaves alternate (persistent) entire 

 or spinulose-dentate coriaceous (lucid); flowers^ in capituliform 

 cymes, the racemes simple or ramified, axillary, lateral or terminal. 

 (South trop. America and Oceania.^) 



57. Sarcanthidion H. Bn.'' — Flowers hermaphi-odite (nearly of 



' Spec. 1. J. Mannii Oliv. he. cit. i. 2-48. — Chariessa Miq. Fl.liid.-Bat. i. p. i, 794. 



2£y*. 646; Mus. Liiffd.-Jiat.i. 2i9. — Endl. ■' Rather small, white. 



Gen. n. 549.5. — Mieks, in Ait». Nat. Hist. sér. " Spec, ad 10. Molin. Chil. ed. 2, 293 



2, X. Ill; Coiifrib. 1.95 (part.).— B. H. Gai. {Cilrm).— ILmxs. Mart. Fl. Sras. Cclastr. 75, t. 



353, n. 28. 22.— C. Gay. Fl. Chil. ii. 12.— A. Gray, Amer. 



3 Spec. 3, 4. Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 793. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. t. 27 {Plcitropctalim).—K-KO. 



— Walp. Ann. vii. 568. Oartcnflorti, v. 61 ; vi. t. 180. — Bentu. Fl. 



* Fl. Per et Chil. iii. 9, t. 231. — A. Juss. Ami. Austral, i. 395. — Miers in Seem. Jourii. of Sot. 



Sc. Nat. sér. 1, xxv. 14, t. 3.— Endl. Gen. n. (1864), 266, t. 21.— Walp. Rep. i. 541 ; Ann. 



6709. — MiEES, Ann. Nat. Hist. sér. 2, ix. 110. — ii. 181 {Pleuropetalum) ; iv. 353 {Fleuropetalum) ; 



B. H. Gen. 353, n. 29.— H. Bn. Adansonia, iii. vii. 568. 



88, 93.— Cilronella Don. Edinli. New Phil. Joiiin. 7 Adansonia, xi. 199. 

 xiii. 243. — Plenropcialam Bl. Mus. Lngd.-Bat. 



