3 78 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or less elongate cupule adnate within to bottom of corolla, above free 

 and there incurved or occasionally produced to a short ligule ; anthers 

 of all fertile, more or less incurved in the bud. Grermen inferior, 

 3-5-locular ; ovules in cells co , ascending. Fruit oblong cylindrical, 

 dehiscing by an apical often hemispherical circumscissile operculum. 

 Seeds few, inserted round a central column on incrassate subbasilar 

 sporophores, long-winged below. Embryo exalbuminous contortu- 

 plicate ; radicle very large cylindrical arcuately ascending ; cotyle- 

 dons broadly foliaceous contortuplicate incumbent.— Trees ; leaves 

 alternate, oftener serrate ; flowers in terminal ramose racemes ; bracts 

 and bracteoles small, caducous. 1 — [Trop. America.' 1 ) 



58. Couratari Atjbl. 3 — Flowers of Cari nia na, oftener G-merous ; 

 ligule of andrœcium elongate, loaded externally at apex with crowded 

 stamens sterile (?) but here and there provided with small (well de- 

 fined) anthers. Fruit, etc., of Cariniaua ; operculum nearly equal to 

 pericarp. Seeds circumalate ; embryo exalbuminous contortuplicate. 

 — Lofty trees ; leaves alternate entire ; inflorescence, etc., of Gari- 

 iiiana, i {Trop. America. 5 ) 



59. Couroupita Atjbl. 6 — Flowers nearly of Couratari, G-merous ; 

 ligule of andrœcium elongate large incurved fleshy subpetaloid cncul- 

 late. Stamens nearly all either subbasilar, or fertile at top of ligule; 

 anthers of all basifixed erect, longitudinally 2-rimose. Germen large 

 partly superior, 5-8-locular ; style short thick ; cells co -ovulate. 

 Fruit subglobose coriaceous-woody, indéhiscent, ring-marked with 

 scar of marginal receptacle, umbilicate at apex. Seeds co , imbedded 

 in pulp, exalate; embryo, etc., of Couratari.— Trees ; leaves alternate, 



1 Perhaps better a sect, of Courataris, differing 172, 301, t. 36 B), of which one Amazonian spe- 



only in the ligule being shorter, the stamens all cies is described (C. anomala Miers) as having 



fertile and the fruit only sometimes alate. a 6-merous flower, unknown to us, a nerved 



• Spec. 7 (ex Miers). Kaddi, Mem. Soc. Ital. helmet-shaped ligula, produced at apex to an 



Modcn. Pliys. xviii. 403.— Mart. Flora, xx. 127 incurved subulate lamina, allied to this P 



(Courataris). — Berg, Mart. Fl. P>-as. Myrt. 610, 6 Spec, about 7 (ex Miers). Velloz. Fl. Flum. 



t. 78-82 (Courataris). v. t. 86 (Lecythis).— Camhess. A. S.-H. Fl. Eras. 



3 Guiau. ii. 723, t. 290.— A Eich.^h». 8c. Nat. Mer. ii. 274, t. 159. 



Ser. 1, i. 321, t. 21.— PoiT. Mém. Mus. xiii. 159, « Guiau. 708, t. 282.— Toit. Méat. Mus. xiii. 



t .s.— DC. /Wi-.iii. 294.— SrACS, Suit, à Buffo», 152, t. 78.— DC. Prodi: iii. 293.— Turp. Did. 



iv. 198.— Endl. Geu. n. 6331.— H. B.v. Payer Se. Nat. Atl. t. 227-229.— Spaoh, Suit, à Buffon, 



Fam.Nat. 370.— B. H. Geu. 722, n. 66 (part).— iv. 196.— Endl. Gen. n. 6334.— H. Bu. Payer 



JIieus, Trans. Linn. Aoc. xxx. 168, 279, t. 35 B, Fam. Nat. 370.— B. H. Gen. 722, n. 67.— Miers, 



62. — Lecythopsis Scant. Denkschr. Acad. Munch. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 139, 188, t. 33 B. — Pou- 



vil. 241. — Bero, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 503, t. 7, toppidana Scor. Iutrod. n. 849. — Ehcholtzia 



75, 76.— B. H. Gen. 723, n. 68. Rien, (not W.). 



1 Is Csrcophora Miers (Trans. Linn. SjC. xxx. 



