MA LPIOHIA CE^. 453 



cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick, equal or uneqiial ; radicle 

 short superior. — Glabrous or in part sericeo-tomentose trees ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate ample oblong entire eglandulose ; stipules connate 

 in pairs in one axil ; flowers ^ in axillary racemes ; bracts and brac- 

 teoles of pedicels concare. {Tropical BrasiU) 



3. Coleostachys A. Juss.^ — Calyx eglandulose ; sepals 6, accres- 

 cent after an thesis. Petals 5, shortly unguieulate. Stamens 10, 

 1-adelphous at base; tube barbate; anthers inappendiculate. Gynse- 

 ceum, etc., of Pterandra. " Fruit from 1-3 indéhiscent (?) carpels, 

 conflated." — A tree ; leaves ample opposite oblong entii-e ; stipules 

 very long axillary, connate at base ; flowers in axillary spikes 

 sheathed at base with leaf reduced to connate stipules, subsessile, 

 bracteate and 2-bracteolate. {Guiana.^) 



4. Clonodia Griseb.^ — Flowers nearly of Acmanfhera ; calyx 

 8-glandulose. Anthers inappendiculate. Carpels connate in 3- 

 locular germen ; styles thickish terminal, truncate at stigmatose 

 apex. Fruit from 1-3 nuts, depressed, obliquely rostrate, irregu- 

 larly cristate, finally solute. Other characters of Pterandra (or 

 Acmanthera). — Small trees ; branches lenticellate ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate or oblong, entire subcoriaceous ; petiole above the base 2- 

 glaudulose ; stipules not conspicuous ; flowers " in terminal lateral 

 racemes; bracts and bracteoles small, {North Brazil!'') 



5. Echinopterys A. Juss.^ — Calyx eglandulose. Petals 5, sub- 

 equal or unequal pubescent. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous at base ; 

 anthers inappendiculate villose. Carpels 3 ; germens free, more or 

 less coalite'-' to internal angle (by means of indumentum); styles 

 terminal free, unequally dilated at stigmatose apex. Fruit 3 cocci, 

 indéhiscent, at back unequally lappulaceo-echinate. — A shrub ; 



.leaves small, opposite and alternate entii-e-; stipules setaceous; 



1 Rather large. 124). 



2 Spec. 1, 2. A. Juss. Belcss. Icon. iii. 19, t. * Mart. FL Bras. MaJpigh. 26.— B. H. Gen. 

 30 ; Malpiyh. 64, t. 6, fig. inf. dextr. A. 253, n. 11. 



{Pterandra). — Walp. .<i).«. vii. 468. « "Red." 



3 ilfa^^i^A. 69, t. 5 (not Benth.). — B. H. Gch. 'Spec. 1. C. rerrucosa Gkibeb. kc. cit. — 

 253, n. 10. Walp. Am,, vii. 469. 



■• Spec. 1. C. gmiipcefolia A. Juss. loc. cit. 60. ' Malpir/fi. 88, t, 9. — B. H. Oeii. 254, n. 16. 



— Walp. Rep. V. 178. (Alien genera are C ' Germen single, 3-locular, according to most 



hypolema and vestita Benth. Sook. Joiirn. vii. authors, but carpels certainly not connate. 



