458 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



16? Glandonia Geiseb/ — Flowers nearly of BimcJiosia {or Btjrso- 

 nima); calyx 10-glandulose. Stamens 10, l-adclplious glabrous; cells 

 of glabrous anther appendiculate with. tuft. Germen 3-locular; 

 branches of style free acute. A l-locular oblong-conical somewhat 

 terete coriaceous nut, longitudinally striated, indéhiscent (?), 1- 

 spermous; " testa of oblong seed membranous; cotyledons of exal- 

 buminous embryo conferruminate or one abortive." — A small tree;^ 

 younger twigs complanate ; leaves opposite ample entii'e ; stipules 

 axillary elongate, caducous ; flowers in terminal racemes ; bracts 

 1-3-florous ; bractlets often glandulose. [Northern Brazil?) 



17. Diacidia Geiseb.* — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia ; calyx 

 10-glandulose. Petals glabrous unguiculate. Stamens 10, inserted 

 on pilose receptacle ; anthers 2-aristate at apex. Germen 2-3-locular ; 

 branches of style subfree acute. A 2-3-locular nut, externally 

 corrugate ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo longitudinally in- 

 flexed. — Sericeous shrubs; leaves opposite entire eglaudulose; 

 stipules adnate to petiole ; flowers '" in erect terminal loose compound 

 racemes ; peduncles and pedicels many times articulated. ( Guiana, 

 Columbia?) 



18. Dicella Griseb.'' — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia; calyx 6-8- 

 glandulose, accrescent after floration. Petals 5, unequal. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments connate and hirsute at base; anthers pilose. Germen 2- 

 locular ; branches of style free, at apex uncinately dilate truncate 

 stigmatose. Nut large, externally longitudinally cristiilately-costate, 

 clothed at base Avith accrete calyx, 1-spermous, indéhiscent ; embryo 

 of subglobose seed thick exalbuminous ; cotyledons subhemispherical. 

 --Climbing shrubs; leaves opposite entire; flowers^ in corymbiform 

 axillary 3-chotomous cymes ; bracts and bractlets foliaceous sub- 

 orbicularly concave iuvolucrant in the bud ? '■' [BraziV^^) 



19. Burdachia A. Juss." — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia (or 

 Dicellu) \ calyx 10-glandulose. Petals 5, unequal. Stamens 10; 



1 Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 23.— B. H. Qeii. ' Linncea, xiii. 250. — A. Juss. Malpigh. 89, t. 



252, n. 5. 9.— Endl. G(n. n. 5587.- B. H. Qcn. 252, n. 6. 



- Habit of C'oleostachis. ' Yellow. 



^ Spec. 1. G. macrocarpa Griseb. loc. cit. ' As in TlirijalUs. 



24. — Walp. Ann. vii. 408. — Burdachia. macri- '" Spec, about 3. A. Jues. A. S. S. Fl. Bras. 



carpa Bentii. Mer. iii. 69, 177 [Bunchnsia). — Griser. Mart. 



•• Mart. Fl.Brds.Malpir/h. 119, not.— B. II. Fl. Bras. Malpiç/h. 32, t. 6.— Walp. Rep. v. 



Gen. 252, n. 7. 195 ; Aim. vii. 468. 



* Sometimes abortive and reduced to a gland. " Malpigh. 57, t. 4. — Endl. Gen, n. 6588. 



6 Spec. 2. Geiseb. loc. cit. — B. H. Qeii. 252, n. 4 (incl. Carimia Mart.). 



