284 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



compressed (Gatappa 1 ), 2-7-alate; wings thick, sometimes sinuate 

 or incised (Ramatuella) thick coriaceous or widely membranous ; 

 exocarp thin or more rarely thick, fleshy or coriaceous ; putamen 

 coriaceous or osseous, 1-spermous, straight, curved or much recurved 2 

 (Conocarpus 5 ). Seed ovoid or elongate, terete or angular ; coat thin; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo convolute. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate or more rarely opposite and 2-glandular at base 

 (Chuncoa* Pentaptera s ), often collected at summit of twigs, sessile 

 or oftener petiolate, generally entire, sometimes pellucid or dark- 

 spotted ; flowers 6 spicate or more rarely racemose ; spikes simple or 

 more or less ramose, elongate, loose or in short capitules ; or some- 

 times (Anogeissus, Oonocarpus, Ramatuella) densely capitate. (All 

 trop, régions. 1 ) See p. 267. 



II? NYSSE2E. 

 9. Nyssa L. — Flowers polygamo-diœcious ; receptacle of males 

 shortly cupular or subplane. Calyx small, very small or subnil ; 

 teeth 5 co. Petals 5-co , imbricate. Stamens 5-18, or co , inserted 

 with perianth around thick pulvinulate disk entire or crenate or 

 lobed, glabrous smooth above or produced to a central cone (rudiment 

 of gynœcium ?) ; filaments free ; anthers sub-2-dymous ; cells 

 laterally or introrsely rimose. Receptacle of female or hermaphrodite 

 flower tubular, urceolate or subcampanulate, enclosing adnate 

 germen ; calyx as in males. Petals small or 0. Rudimentary 

 stamens or few anantherous or with effete anthers. Germen 

 inferior, 1-locular (or very rarely 2-locular ; dissepiments perfect or 



1 G^ektn. Fruct. ii. 206, t. 127 ; iii. 207, t. or more rarely red, pale violet or purplish, 



217. — Adamaram Riieede, ex Adans. Fain, des sometimes scented. 

 PI. ii. 445. — Tanibouca Aubl. Guian. 448, 1. 178. 7 Spec. 100. Jacq. St. Am. t. 52 (Conocarpus). 



- Fruit in Conocarpus and others imbricate in — Wight and Aisw Prodr. i. 312. — Wight, 111. 



a dense cone. t. 91 ; Icon. t. 172. — A. S. H. PL Bras. Mer. ii. 



3 GiEKTN. Fnict. ii. 470, t. 177 ; iii. 205, t. 239, t. 128.— Gl-illem. et Pebii. PL Sen. Tent. i. 

 216.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 96; 111. t. 126.— DC. 276, t. 63, 64; 278 (Conocarpus), 279, t. 6.5 

 Prodr. iii. 16 (part). — Spaoh, Suit. àBuffon, iv. (Anogeissus). — Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, vi. 90. 

 303.— Endl. Gen. -a. 6081.— B. H. Gen. 686, n. 3. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 276.— Habv. and 

 — Rudbeckia Adans. Fain, ties PL ii. 80 (not L.). Sond. FL Cap. ii. 508. — Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 



4 Pav. ex J. Gen. 76.— Pom. Birf.Suppl. ii. 496.— Thw. Enmn. PL Zcyl. 103.— Eichl. Mart. 

 258.— Endl. Gen. n. 6079.— Gimbcniatia R. et Fl. Pros. Combret. 81, t. 23, 24, 33, 34 ; 94, t. 35, 

 Taw Prodr. 138, t. 36.— :' Chicarronia A. Rich. i. (Biicida) ; 95, t. 25 (Buchenavia) ; 99, t. 35 

 FL Cub. 529, t. 43. — Vieentia Allem. Diss, de ii. (Bamatuella) ; 100, t. 35, ii. (Conocarpus). — 

 Vicentia acuminata Rio Janeiro (1844). — Walp. Laws. FL Trop. Air. ii. 415, 417 (Conocarpus, 

 Ann.iii. 934. — Eichl. Mart. Fl. Bras. Combret- Anogeissus).— Bot. Ma,j. t. 3004. — Walp. Sep. 

 92, t. 33, fi"-. 15 (fl. 4-merous). ii. 00, 63 (Anogeissus) ; ./«//. i. 289 ; ii. 524 ; iv. 



5 Roxb. /•'/. I>,d. ii. 437.— Endl. Gen. n. 6077. 672.— Croton Benzoe L. Mantiss, 297 (DC. Prodr. 

 G Small or moderate -sized, greenish, whitish iii. 11). 



