416 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



49 ? Diploglottis Hook, f.^ — Flowers Hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Paneovia) ; sepals 5, valvate. Petals 4, furnished above the claw 

 with a scale 2-plicate glandulose-apiculate at the back. Capsule ^ 

 globose- 3-gonal, sub-3-lobate, with o-valvate cell. Seed ascendent 

 and enclosed by a pulpy ^ unequally fissured aril ; testa thick ; *■ coty- 

 ledons of (green) embryo thick-fleshy plano-convex.^ — A tree ; with 

 ferrugineous-tomentose or subhirsute innovations ; leaves alternate 

 abruptly pinnate ; leaflets opposite petiolulate ; flowers crowded in 

 axillary very composite-ramose cymiferous racemes, bracteate.'' 

 (^Subtropical AustralmJ) 



50. PauUinia L.^ — Flowers polygamo-diœcious irregular (nearly 

 of Paneovia or Schmidelia), 6- or more nearly 4-merous ; calyx imbri- 

 cate. Petals 4, unequal, variously squamate-appendiculate. Sta- 

 mens 8, or more rarely 9-15, interior to unequally- sometimes deejily- 

 lobed disk ; lobes of disk sometimes nearly free. The excentric germen 

 and ovules of Paneovia ; style 3-fid or 3-partite. Capsule pedicellate 

 ph-iforin, 3-gonal, sometimes 3-alate, more rarely oxalate [Enourea^) 

 and coriaceous, 1-3-locular. septicidally 3-valvate, 1-3-spermous. 

 Testa of ascendent shortly arillate seed crustaceous ; embryo exalbu- 

 minous straight or oftener curved. — Sarmentose scandent or volubile 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, 1-3-ternate, pinnate or pinnately decompo- 

 site, oftener stipulate ; petiole often winged ; leaflets often dentate 

 or crenate, punctate or lineolate ; flowers in axillary, simple or ramose 

 cymiferous racemes, very often 2-cirrhoseat base. {Tropical America ^'') 

 51 ? Castanella Spruce." — Flowers irregular polygamo-diœcious ; 



DC. Frodr. i. G13, n. 12 {Cupa>na).—lloxB. PL Suit, à Jiuffun, iii. 47.— Endl. Oeii. n. 6603.— H. 



Coram, i. 43, t. 60 (iI/o/i«œ«).— Thw. Eiium. Fl. Bn Payer Fam. Nat. 316.— B. H. Oen. 394, n. 6. 



Zeyl. 56. — Walp. Ann. vii. 621. — Semiarillaria R. and Pav. Frodr. 54, t 9. 



1 Gen. 395, u. 10. ' Aubl. Ouian. i.588, t. 235.— Oambess. Mém. 



2 Ferruginoo-hirsute. Mus. xviii. 36.— Endl. Qc». n. 5604. — B. H. 

 ^ Acid, turgid, miniate. Gin. 394, n. 8. 



■• Brown, smooth. '" Spec, ad 70. Plum. Oen. 34, t. 35 {Cnruru). 



' Nearly as in JEsculus Hippocastaiius. — iwn- Olis. t. 61, 02 ; Hort. Sehœnbr. t. 268 ; le. 



^ Other characters of Paneovia, from which Sar. t. 450. — Schum. Act. Soc. llafn. iii. p. ii. 



genua it is distinguished hy its fruit and inflo- 122, t. 11. — H. B. K. Nov. Oen. et Spec. v. 114. 



rescence. It seems hardly, however, to be re- — A. S. H. PI. Rem. Bréa. 236, t. 23 ; PI. Sras. 



tained. Uer. i. 369, t. 77, 78.— Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 37. 



" Spec. 1. P. C'uiiniiiffhami KooK v.loc.Ut. — HooK.&oi!. J'/. 1. 110. — Pœpp. and Endl. iVbj'. 



— BENTH.iï'i. Austral, i. 454. — Cupania Cunning- Oen. et Spec. t. 243. — Tukcz. Bull. Mose. (1858), 



hami Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4470.— Walp. Ann. ii. i. 397.— Grtseb. PL Brit. W. Ind. 123 ; Cat. PI. 



215, n. 8. — Stadmania Australis A. Cunn. MSS. Cuà. 45. — Tr. and Pl. An?/. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, xviii. 



(Hook.). 350, 379 {Enourca) .^W ai.i- . Rep. i. 413; ii. 



8 Gen. n. 331.— J. Oen. 247 ; in Ann. Mus. iv. 814 ; v. 360 ; Ann. iv. 377 ; vii. 620, 621 



340, t. 66.— PoiR. Pict.Y. 95 (part.) ; Suppl. iy. (Pnonna). 



333.— Lamk. III. t. 318, fig. 2-5.— DC. Prodr. i. " Ex B. K.Gen. 394, n. 7.— Tr. and Pl. Ann. 



604. — Cambess. Mém. Mus. xviii. 22. — Spach, Sc. Nat. sér. 4, xviii. 365. 



