500 NATURAL TIISTOUY OF PLANTS. 



siiborbiculate ; radicle superior, attached to broader side of cotyle- 

 dons. — A very tall tree ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; flowers in 

 compound cymiferous terminal racemes. ( Western India}) 



28. Elutheria Eœm." — Flowers 4-merous ; sepals short pubescent 

 imbricate. Petals longer, imbricate or contorted, finally patent. Sta- 

 mens 8 ; filaments connate in tube 8-dentate at apex ; teeth 2-fid ; 

 anthers sessUe in hollows oblong ; connective produced beyond the 

 introrsely rimose cells to a subulate ligule. Germen furnished at 

 base with shortly stipitiform disk, 4-locular ; style slender, apex 

 stigmatose discoid ; ovules go, 2-seriate in each cell. Pruit an elongate' 

 ovoid capsule ; pericarp papyraceous, 4-valvate ; valves attenuated * 

 on both sides, free from incomplete septa. Seeds co, compressed and 

 produced downwards to long membranous imbricate wing ; nucleus 

 compressed crustaceous surrounding the somewhat thick (green) em- 

 bryo ; cotyledons flat oval ; radicle short exserted ; albumen fleshy. 

 — Tomentose* shrubs or bushes; leaves alternate im paripinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite sessile ; flowers axillary solitary or in spurious cymi- 

 ferous racemes. (C'olu7nbia, Peru.^) 



29 ? Carapa Aubl." — Flowers 4-5-merous ; calyx short imbri- 

 cate, equally fid or partite. Petals longer, contorted, finally reflexed. 

 Stamens 8-10; filaments connate in urceolate tube; laciniœ of 

 8- 10-dentate or fid tube entire or 2-partite {Xi/locarjms) ;'' anthers 

 introrse enclosed, inserted in hollows of tube. Germen surrounded 

 at base with thick disk ; cells 4, 5, oppositipetalous ; style short, apex 

 disciform stigmatose very dUated ; ovules in each cell oo (2-8), 

 2-seriate. Fruit capsular spherical or ovoid woody or fleshy ; cells 

 1-5 ; septa thin sometimes vanisliing ; seeds in cells 1 or few large 

 more or less deformed by mutual pressure or pyramidally angled and 



' Spec. 1. C. tabuluria A. Juss. loc. cit. — conspecific with the Columbian.) 



Wight and Abn. Fiodr. i. 122.— Wight, III. « Onian. Buppl. 33, t. 387.— Lamk. Diet. i. 



t. ôG.Su'ietenia Chickrassa Eoxb. FL Ind. ji. 621 ; ///. t. 301.— DC. Prodr. i. 626.— A. Juss. 



390. — S. villosa Wight. — Plagiotaxis villosa Meliac. SO, t. 9. — Sfach, Suit, à li«ffui),ni. 202. 



Wall. Cat. — Endl. Oeii. n. 5544.— B. H. Geii. 338, n. 29. 



= Synops. 122 (not P. Be.).— B. H. Oeii. 339, — H. Bjf. Fai/er Fam. Nat. 405.— Fersoonia'W. 



n. 4. — Schmaidœa Kakst. Fl. Columb. Sp. Sel. i. Spec. PI. ii. 331 (not Mich, nor SM.).—Facaj7a 



187, t. 93. Eœm. Si/nops. 123. — Touloucomia Rœm. loc. cit. 



3 Those referring to Swietenia. 7 Schreb. Ocii. n. 646. — Kosn. A. Juss. 



■• Hahit of some Ctinonice. Meliac. 91, t. 9. — PoiR. Diet. viii. 806 ; Suppl. 



' Spec. 1, 2. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. t. 510.— Spach, Suit, à Bnffon, iii. 204.— Endl. 



21&{Sapimlacea !).— Rook. Icon. t. 120 {Guarea). Oeii. n. 55i5.~Oraiiatum Kœn. in Naturf. xx. 



— Tk. Ann. Sc. Nut. s-er. .5, xv. 376.— Walp. —Muwisnmn Giuff. Notul. iv. 502. 

 Aim. xii. 560. (A Peruvian plant apparently 



