M Y RT A CE JE. 333 



flat pentagonal stigmatiferons head, with salient oppositipetalous 

 lobes. In the internal angle of each cell is a placenta supporting 

 two vertical series of ovules finally descending, 1 with mieropyle in 

 this case directed upwards and inwards. The fruit is fleshy, 2 nearly 

 globular, and surmounted by the remaius or the scar of the calyx ; 

 it encloses, imbedded in its pulp, a variable number of seeds, the 

 coats of which cover a thick reniform embryo, with fleshy plano- 

 convex cotyledons and short radicle lodged in the hilum. Napoleona 

 comprises trees from tropical western Africa, with alternate glabrous 

 pcnninerved leaves, without punctuations and without stipules, 3 and 

 axillary flowers, 4 solitary or in few-flowered glomerules, nearly sessile, 

 surrounded by short alternate imbricate bracts, glanduliferous like 

 the sepals, the shorter the lower they are. Six or seven species have 

 been distinguished ; there is perhaps only one. 5 



Asteranthos brasiliensis, 6 a tree of Para and Guyana, with alternate 

 leaves, has nearly all the characters of Napoleona', it differs in its 

 expanded gamosepalous calyx, dentelate at the margin ; a much 

 longer style, with stigmatiferons head much less dilated ; elongate 

 ovules, much more numerous, in a semi-inferior ovary. Within the 

 corolla and united inferiorly with it, are a great number of stamens, 

 with slender filaments and introrse bilocular anthers. 



VI? POMEGRANATE SEEIES. 



In this genus, 7 which has served as a type for a distinct family, 

 the flowers (fig. 334-338) are regular, hermaphrodite, with concave 

 receptacle, obconical or nearly so, the bottom of which is filled with 

 the adnate ovary, whilst the margin bears the perianth. The latter 



1 Or at first slightly ascending, with the 4262. — Benth. Joiirn. Linn. Soc. iii. 80. — B. H. 

 raphe superior and interior. Gen. 724, n. 72.— Miees, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 



2 Corticate and coriaceous on the surface. i. 17, t. 3 B. — Walp. Rep. ii. 722 Asterant/ius). 



3 With margins sometimes glanduliferous. " Punica T. Lust. 636, t. 401.— L. Gen. n. 



4 Yellow and purplish or (?) bluish. 618.— Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 88.— J. Gen. 325. 



5 N. imperialisJ'.-'BsAvv. loe. cit. — DC. Prodi: — G^bktn. Fruct. i. 183, t. 38. — Lamk. Diet. iii. 

 vii. 550.— Bot. Mag. t. 4387.— Oliv. FI. Trop. 30; LU. t. 415.— Sciikuhe, Eandb. t. 31.— 

 Afr. ii. 439.— N. Yogelii Hook. Niger, 360, t. Nees, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xi. 410, t. Ii.— DC. 

 49, 50. — N. Heudoletii A. Juss. loc. cit. It is Prodr. iii. 3. — Spach, Suit, à Bvffon, iv. 288. 

 this species which M. Decaisne (Rev. Sort. — Endl. Gen. n. 6340. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 

 [1853] 301, t. 16) distinguishes under the name 735.— Payer, Orgamg. 465, t. 99.— H. Bn. 

 of IV. Whitfieldii. Miees also multiplies the Payer Fam. Nat. 371.— Bekg. Mart. Fl. Bras. 

 species of this genus. Myrt. 514, t. 8, 9.— B. H. Gen. 784, n. 27. — 



6 Desf. Ann. Mus. vL 9, t. 3.— Enbl. Gen. n. Door. Fl. Lnd. ii. 580. 



