458 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



8, valvate; accessory teeth or scarcely perceptible. Petals 8. 

 Stamens 24, spuriously 1-seriate; filaments inserted at bottom of 

 receptacular tube above margin of thin disk ; anthers curved versa- 

 tile. Germen incompletely 1-locular ; placentas basilar, co -ovulate. 

 Capsule enclosed in widened tubular or ventricose receptacle, finally 

 sub-1-locular, 2-valvate, polyspermous. — A branched tree; 1 leaves 

 opposite entire, rather scabrous on both sides ; flowers in loose com- 

 pound oppositely-branched racemes ; flowers 3 surrounded by 2, large, 

 widely-rotundate concave bracteoles enclosing the bud. 3 (North 

 Brazil.*) 



18? Diplusodon Pool. 5 — Flowers nearly of Lafoensia, 6-merous; 

 receptacle subcampanulate. Sepals 6, 3-angular, valvate ; accessory 

 teeth same in number alternate subulate (or sometimes very small). 

 Petals 6, corrugately imbricate. Stamens 12-co , pluriseriate. in- 

 serted at or below middle of receptacle ; filaments slender subulate ; 

 anthers arcuate or hippocrepiform. Germen enclosed by receptacle ; 

 cells 3, very imperfect; placentas basilar (of Lafoensia), co -ovulate. 

 Capsule enclosed by receptacle, loculicidally 2-valvate. Seeds co , 

 erect, imbricate; testa alate; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 auriculate at base ; radicle short inferior. — Shrubs or undershrubs, 

 sometimes handsome ; leaves opposite or verticillate, subsessile 

 entire, 3-co -costate ; flowers 6 axillary solitary or terminal and com- 

 pound ramose, 3-chotomous; bracteoles or 2. (Brazil, Antilles. 1 ) 



II. CPYPTEROXIE^E. 



19. Crypteronia Bl. — Flowers polygamo-diœcious apetalous. 

 Male flower : receptacle cupuliform. Sepals 4, 5, 3-angular and 

 stamens as many alternate, perigynously inserted at margin ; fila- 

 ments incurved in bud, finally straight exserted ; anthers basifixed 

 subdidymous, at apex introrsely or sublaterally rimose ; connective 



1 " Habit of Lagerstramia." I r erhandl. der Bot. Ver. d. Prov. Braiidaib. (1S74) 



- Purple, showy. 10, 23. — Diplodon Spreng. Gen. n. 1963. — 



3 Representing a spurious calyx. Friedlandia Cham, et Schlchtl, Linntea, ii. 348. 



1 Spec. 1. P.Jiorida Pom,, loc. cit. —Ditbyœa DC. Diss. hied. (1827). 



5 Flora (1827) 150 ; PI. Bras. Ic. 82, t. 66-81. 6 White, pink or yellow. 



—DC. Prodr. iii. 94 a.— Spach, Suit à Buffoit, ' Spec. 30-40. A. S.-H. FI. Bras. Mer. iii. 143, 



iv. 430.— Endl. Gen. n. 6161.— B. 11. Gen. 781, t. 188, 189.— Pœpp. et Endl. A r ov. Gen. et Sp. 



n. 16.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 355.— Kœhne, ii. GO, t. 192.— Walp. Sep. ii. 112 ; v. 075. 



