38 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
a species of unsymmetrical plate or tuft, whose border is stigmatiferous 
to a variable extent and which persists, growing and hardening, to 
the apex of the fruit, which is dry and indehiscent and becomes in 
that way a samara. Its hollow part is covered with ribs or short 
wings, very irregular, and containing an ascending seed enclosing a 
large embryo. This has a short inferior 
Seguieria floribunda. radicle and much developed foliaceous 
cotyledons, many times folded and 
crumpled. In the interval of their 
folds, towards the centre, a very small 
remnant of soft and viscous albumen is 
seen. From Seguieria has been gene- 
rically separated a Brazilian species 
Gallesia Gorazema, because its flowers 
are oftener in four than in five parts, 
and because of slight differences in the 
shape of the wing which surmounts its 
Meni opens fruit, and in the rather more con- 
siderable quantity of the albumen which 
persists between the folds of the embryo; but we only consider it as 
a section of the same genus. In joining this species to that of the 
section Luseguieria which is found in Brazil, Guiana, and Columbia,’ 
a total is obtained of some ten* trees or shrubs, with alternate, entire, 
glabrous and petiolate leaves, accompanied by two stipules, some- 
times indurated or developed in hooks. The flowers are in racemes 
or in much ramified compound spikes; each placed in the axil of a 
bract, and accompanied by two lateral bractlets. 
In Adenogramma' (figs. 58-62) the flowers are hermaphrodite and 
analogous to those of the preceding genera, for they have also five 
sepals, quincuncially imbricated, five stamens with introrse anthers 
and filaments free, or united at the base for a very short distance, 


1 Moag., Prodr., 8.—G. scorodendrum Casak., 3 Benra., in Trans, Linn. Soc., xviii. 234; in 
Nov. Slirp. Bras. Dec., v. 43.—Enpu., Gen, Hook. Journ. (1847), 482 (Gallesia). 
n. 52541 Cratæva Gorazema NELLOZ., Fl. 4 REIOHB., Icon. Æxot., ii. 3, t. 109.— 
Fium., v. t. 4. FENZL, in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 254— 
* Lourerro has described besides (#7. Co-  Enpz., Gen., n. 5195.—B. H., Gen. 144, 156, 
chinch., 341), under the name of S. asiaticus, à 858, n. 19.—Steudelia Prest, Symb., 1, 3, 
doubtful species of this genus, whose fruit appears t. 2. 
to be a bivalve (?) and surmounted by a multifid 
wing with linear divisions (?). 
