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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Gyrinops Walla 1 (fig. 70, 71), a shrub from Ceylon, similar to 

 Aqidlaria in its organs of vegetation, differs in that the throat of its 

 narrowly tubular receptacle gives insertion to only five oppositi- 



petalous stamens and to an equal 



Gyrimps Walla. 



<r~^p 



number of alternate scales, forming 

 by their contiguity a short col- 

 larette covered with hairs, and in 

 that their bilocular ovary is sup- 

 ported by a long foot. 2 



Phaleria, 3 shrubs from all the 

 tropical regions of Asia and 

 Oceania, differs directly from the 

 preceding genera by its opposite 

 leaves. The flowers have also a 

 long tubular receptacle, but 

 coloured and petaloid, as well as 

 imbricate sepals,* to the number 

 of four or five, which are inserted 

 in the throat. It is lined with a 

 very thin disk which thickens only at the throat and there termi- 

 nates in a straight or festooned edge, or is dilated into lobes which 

 project into the intervals between the superior stamens. The latter 

 are the same in number as the parts of the perianth to which they 

 are superposed, whilst the alternate stamens are situated lower down 

 on the receptacular tube. All are composed of one filament of 

 variable length and one bilocular and introrse anther, dehiscing by 

 two longitudinal clefts. The ovary, with two or often a single cell, 

 is surrounded at the base by a cupuliform and membranous disk, 

 entire or lobed, and surmounted by a style, like the staminal fila- 



Fig. 70. Flower (*). 



Fig. 71. Long, 

 sect, of flower. 



Fl. Ind. ii. 422.— Cat. Diss. yii. 377, t. 224.— 

 Eoyl. III. Himal. 173, t. 36.— Hook. Icon. t. 6. 

 — Benth. Hook. Keio Journ. v. 195 ; J'Y. Hough. 

 297.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 882 ; Suppl. i. 

 141 (part.). — H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. fasc. 10. 



1 Gjertn. Fntct. ii. 276, t. 140. — DC. 

 Frodr. ii. 60. — Arn. Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 

 442. — Hook. Icon. t. 5. — Endl. Gen. n. 2110. — 

 Thw. Enum. PI. Zeijl. 251.— Meissn. Gen. 73: 

 Frodr. 602, 700.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 333. 



2 At its base exists a small glandular swell- 

 ing, scarcely perceptible. 



3 Jack, Mai. Misc. (1820-22).— Hook. Comp. 

 to Bot. Mag. i. 156.— Endl. Gen. n. 2109.— 

 H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. fasc. 10. — Drymi- 

 spermum Eeinw. Syll. Nov. Fl. Ratisb. (1818), 

 15, t. 2. — Meissn. Prodr. 603. — Pseudais Dcne. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, xix. 40. — Lcucosmia 

 Benth. Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 231 ; Toy. Sulph. 

 Bot. 179, t. 67 (in some copies.). — Plutonia 

 Noronh. (ex Hassk.). 



4 Which are the lobes of the calycinal limb 

 according to most authors ; generally white, 

 like the tube. 



