80 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



flowers 1 in axillary and terminal very compound ramose many- 

 flowered cymes. 2 (Trop, and subtrop. Oceania?) 



12. Eerchemia Neck.* — Flowers 4, -5-merous, hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous ; receptacle concave hemispherical or turbinate, sometimes 

 cupular or subplane, lined with a disk. Germen free (immersed in 

 concavity of disk), 2-locnlar, attenuated to 2-fid style; branches at 

 stigmatose apex obtuse. Drupe 5 elongate-oblong obtuse, girt at base 

 with short cupule of receptacle ; putamen woody or crustaceous, 2- 

 locular. — Unarmed shrubs, erect or climbing ; leaves alternate pe- 

 tiolate, minutely stipulate, coriaceous penninerved ; nerves parallel 

 close; transverse veins slender; flowers 6 disposed in the divaricate 

 twigs of a wide terminal ramosely- compound spike or of a much 

 branched raceme; solitary or cymulose, sessile or pedicellate. 7 

 ( Warm regions of Africa and North America 8 ) 



13. Sageretia Ad. Be. 9 — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Berchemia) ; receptacle hemispherical or urceolate. Disk lining tube 

 of receptacle, afterwards free and erect ; margin sub-entire or 5- 

 lobed. Germen immersed in concavity of disk free ; cells 3 ; 

 1-ovulate. Fruit drupaceous; pyrenae 3, coriaceous, indéhiscent; 

 seeds thinly albuminous and other characters of Sciitia. — Unarmed or 

 spinescent shrubs ; leaves sub-opposite penninerved and reticulate 

 veined, entire or serrate ; stipules minute, deciduous ; flowers l0 on 

 the opposite divaricate branches of a terminal or axillary oftener 



1 Ferruginous or sometimes white, pendent. 6 Purple or black. 



- A genus from its germen mostly inferior 6 Greenish or whitish, 



(within adnate to receptacle) and fruit cupulate 7 A genus hence allied to Cohibrina, thence 



to middle, very closely allied to Cohibrina, from to Zizyphus (n. 19). 



which it can scarcely he generically separated, 8 Spec. 8-10. Jaco.. lc. Bar. t. 336 (Rhammts). 



while there are some species of Cohibrina (e. g. Hook, and Abn. Beech. Yoy. Sot. t. 37. — 



C. ferruginosa) with seeds persistent on torus Torr. and Gray, Fl. N.-Amer. i. 260. — Mm. 



after the fall of the cocci. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 1. p. i. 644 ; Suppl. i. 331.— Thw. 



3 Spec, about 5, of which 1 is tomentose, Enum. PI. Zeijl. 74. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 67. — 

 very various in form: A. Gray, Amer. Expl. A. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 114. — Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. 

 Fxp. Bot. i. 277, t. 22.— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. St. 73.— Our. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 381.— Maxim. 

 414. — Seem. Fl. Vit. 42. — H. Bn. Adansonia, Bliamn. Or.-Asiat. 5. — Walf. Ann. i. 966 • 

 xi. 270. vii. 588. 



4 Elem. n. 800.— DC. Prodr. ii. 22.— An. Br. 9 Bhamn. 52, t. 2. — Spach, Suit, à Buffon, ii. 

 Bhamn. 49, t. 2.— Spach, Suit, à Buffon, ii. 446. 446.— Endl. Gen. n. 5720.— A. Gray, Gen. III. 

 — Endl. Gen. 5719.— B. H. Gen. 377, n. 8.— t. 166.— B. H. Gen. 379, n. 15.— Hook. Fl.Ind. 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 637. — Œnoplea Hedw. f. Gen. i. 641, 



i. 151 (ex DC). 10 Very small. 



