80 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLAN1S. 



23. Crumenaria Mart. 1 — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 Gouania) ; receptacle campanulate beyond adnate germen. Sepals 

 valvate. Petals cucullate, inserted at the base of the hollows 

 of calyx. Stamens enclosed by petals. Germen quite inferior, 

 2-3-locular ; branches slender cylindrical erect (2-3-fid); style 

 dilated at stigmatose apex. Fruit inferior and crowned with 

 remains or prominent cicatrice of perianth, produced in 2, 3 vertical 

 winged lobes ; wings membranous veined (marginal as regards 

 cocci), 2-lamellate ; cocci chartaceous obcordate, finally separate 

 from 3-partite columella and dehiscing within. Seed obovate ; 

 testa rather hard ; cotyledons of thinly albuminous embryo suborbi- 

 cular plano-convex fleshy ; radicle inferior very short. — Herbs or 

 annuals ; x root fibrous ; leaves alternate petiolate cordato-ovate 

 membranous, 3 -nerved at base ; or oftener perennial ; rhizome 

 woody; annual branches thin reedy, terete or compressed; leaves 

 or very small scaly ; stipules very small linear ciliate ; flowers 3 in 

 axillary Blightly ramose, more rarely racemose cymes, sometimes 

 few or solitary. (Trop. Brazil.*) 



24. Helinus E. Mey. 5 — Flowers of Gouania; disk epigynous 

 rather flat. Fruit inferior, shortly obovoid exalate, areolate at 

 depressed apex, finally dry coriaceous ; cocci 3, crustaceous, finally 

 separate from central 3-partite columella and dehiscing within ; 

 seeds and other characters of Gouania (or Reissekia).— Scandent 

 shrubs, glabrous cirrhiferous or pubescent ; leaves alternate cordato- 

 ovate entire, slenderly petiolate ; stipules small, deciduous ; in- 

 florescence of Reissekia. (East Indies, South Africa, Abyssinia- 6 ) 



25. Phylica L. 7 — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely polyga- 

 mous; receptacle very concave, tubular or obconical or urceolate, 



1 Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 68, t. 160.— Ad. Br. 6 Spec. 3. Ait. Mort. Kew. i. 266 (Rhnmnus). 



Rhamn. 73— Endl. Gen. n. 5748.— B. H. Gen. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 139, t. 31.- 



385, n. 34.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 290. Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 479.— Jauu. and 



2 In 1 spec. viz. ft decumbens Mart. — G. Spach, III. PI. Or. v. t. 472. — Walp. Ann. vii. 

 Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 44. 608. 



3 Small, white. 1 Gen. n. 266.— J. Gen. 381.— Gjertn. Fruct. 



4 Spec. 3, 4 (lof which is membranous-leaved; i. 114, t. 24.— Lamk. III. t. 127. — Pom. Diet. v. 



root annual, in habit very different from the 286; Suppl. iii. 400. — DC. Frodr. ii. 34. Ad. 



rest, but in no generic sense distinct). Reiss. Br. Rhamn. 68, t. 6, ii. — Spach, Suit, à Riifon, 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Rhamn, 112, t. 41. ii. 467.— Endl. Gen. n. 5738.— B. H. Gen. 380, 



' In Herb. Drèye (ex Endl. Gen. n. 5745).— n. 18.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 329.— Baker 



B. H. Gen. 386, n. 36.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 644. Fl. Maurit. 53. 



