463 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Brachyptcnjs (or Banistcria). — A tree ; leaves opposite ample oblong 

 entire eglandulose, silky beneath ; flowers ' in terminal ramose com- 

 pound racemes ; sericeous branches and pedicels thick articulate 

 bracteolate. ( Guiana.") 



28? Sphedamnocarpus Pl.^ — Flowers nearly of Banister k ; 

 calyx eglandulose. Petals 5, shortly imguiculate subentire. Stamens 

 10, glabrous. Carpels 3, hirsute, coalite at axis ; branches of style 3, 

 free filiform ; apex stigmatose acute incurved. Samarte 1-3, 

 laterally inserted in pyramidal receptacle and finally solute from it, 

 produced above to a dorsal wing. — Scandent shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 or sometimes 3-4-nately verticillate, entire exstipulate ; petiole 

 glandulose ; flowers in umbelliform oftener terminal cymes, generally 

 4-florous ; pedvmcles bracteolate at base and 2 -bracteolate* at apex. 

 (Tropical Western and Southern Africa.^) 



29. Acridocarpus Guill. and Peer.'' — Flowers nearly of ^?/ie- 

 damnocarpus ; calyx eglandulose or externally at base inconspicuously 

 and unequally glandulose. Stamens 10; anthers often cordate- 

 lanceolate glabrous. Germen S-lobed; styles 3, of which 2 are 

 oftener long filiform, circinate at acute stigmatose incurved apex ; 

 the third often short erect or inconspicuous. Samarse 1-3, and other 

 characters of Sphedamnocarpus ; seeds often angular ; cotyledons of 

 curved embryo plano-convex. — Trees or shi-ubs, sometimes scandent; 

 leaves opposite or generally alternate exstipulate, often glanduliferous 

 beneath ; flowers ' in racemes or more rarely corymbs subsimple or 

 ramose terminal and lateral ; pedicels reflexed at apex, bracteate and 

 2 -bracteolate. [Tropical, south, continental and east insular Africa, 

 Arabia, New Caledonia?) 



30. Tricomaria Hook, and Aen.^ — Flowers nearly oï Banister ia ; 

 calyx 8-10 -glandulose. Petals unguiculate unequal. Stamens 10 ; 

 anthers glabrous. Gynseceum of Stigmaphyllon or Brachy- 



1 Eather large (yellow ?). iii. Ifi6.— Endi. Gen. n. 5576.— B. H.(?eH. 256, 



^ Spec. 1. L. splendens A. JusB. loe. cit. — n. 24. — Aiiomaloptcris G. Don. Qen. Syst.i.&iT. 



Walp. Rej). V. 200. ' Golden, sometimes rery odoriferous. 



» B. H. Qen. 256, 988, n. 25. » Spec. 12, 13. Hook. p. Niger, 244, t. 24.— 



■* Closely allied to Acridocarpus. Haev. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 231, n. 1. — 



6 Spec. 2, 3. A. Juss. Malpir/h. 236 {Aerido- Harv. Thes. Cap. 12, t. 19.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. 



carpm, § 2).— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 232, Afr. i. 277.— H.Bn. Adamonia, xi. 248. — Walp. 



n. 2, 3 {Acridocar2it<s).—0'Liy. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. Eep. v. 285 ; Ann. i. 131 ; ii. 204 ; vii. 471. 



280.— Walp. Eep. v. 288 [Acridocarpus, § 2). 9 Mot. Misc. iii. 158, 1. 101.— A. Juss. Malpigh. 



» Fl. Seneg. Tent. i. 123, t. 29.— A. Juss. Mai- 227, t. 15.— Endl. Oen. n. 6684.— B. H. Gen, 



pigh. 228 (part.), t. 15.— Spach. Sidt. àBuffon, 268, n. 31. 



