C LU SI A CE JE. 403 



is a thick coriaceous cupuliform disk, within which is inserted the 

 andrœcium. The latter is monadelphous at the base, and the filaments, 

 united below in a sort of tube, separate higher up into five small 

 oppositipetalous bands, the exterior face of which bears three adnate 

 extrorse anthers, dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts, and the summit 

 terminates in a point, at first indexed. The gyngecium is superior, 

 formed of an ovary with five incomplete alternipetalous cells, sur- 

 mounted by a style with five open then recurved stigmatiferous 

 branches terminated by a point at the top of which is a small aperture 

 leading to a narrow stigmatic cavity. In the internal angle of each 

 cell is a placenta bearing from two to six, rarely more, ascending 

 anatropous ovules, with the micropyle inferior and exterior. The 

 fruit is an ovoid or globular berry, with few seeds enclosing under 

 their coats a large fleshy undivided embryo, without albumen. 



S. globulifera 1 is a tree with a yellowish latex, opposite, coriaceous, 

 entire, penninerved leaves, with numerous thin parallel and close 

 secondary nervures. The flowers 2 are in umbel liform cymes at the 

 top of the branches. It inhabits tropical America from the Antilles 

 to Peru and central Brazil. It is found in western tropical Africa. 3 

 Ghrysopia* (fig. 367-371) from Madagascar has rightly been con- 

 sidered congeneric with this plant, having the same organs of vege- 

 tation and the same flowers, with sometimes four anthers in each 

 fascicle of the andrœcium and a disk more or less deeply crenelate. 5 

 Hitherto five species 6 of Chrysopia have been described. 



Close beside Symphonia are ranged four genera, some of which are 

 scarcely distinct and perhaps will hereafter be retained only as sections 

 of the first. There is first the true Moronobea,' 1 the corolla of 

 which is more elongate and ovoid in the bud than that of Symphonia, 

 and the disk exterior or rather inferior to the andrœcium disappears 



1 Moronobea globulifera Schlchtl, Linncea,vvL 6 In C. gymnoelada the ovary is described as 

 189. — Aneuriseus exserens Fresl. — A. Anbletii directly surmounted by five punctiforrn stig- 

 Presl. mata (Pl. et Tri.). 



2 Red, very odorous. 6 One of them, C. urophylla Done, is perhaps 



3 Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. i. 163. It is a question evidently a form little distinct from Symphonia 

 if it has not been introduced. globulifera L. r. 



Noronh. ex Dup.-Th. Gen. Nov. Mad. 14. — 7 Aubl. Guian. 7S8, t. 313 (excl. fig. a-j). — 



DC. Prodi: i. 563.— Sfacb, Suit, à Buffon, v. 319. Endl. Gen. n. 5411 (part).— Pl. et Tri. Ann. 



— Cambess. Mém. Mus. xvi. 422, t. 19.— Endl. Se. Nat. sér. 4, xiv. 295.— B. H. Gen. 174, n. 13. 



G en. ii. 5440. — Pl. et Tbj. Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 5, — Leuconocarpua Speuce, herb. (ex. Pl. et 



xiv. 289. Tei.). 



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