84 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Glossostemon Brugieri, a Persian shrub, with large palminerved 
leaves covered with stellate hairs, represents alone a special sub- 
series, because its stamens, thirty-five in number, are arranged in 
five alternipetalous bundles, each formed of six stamens, with extrorse 
anthers, and surmounted by a petaloid tongue. Its fruit is an 
elongated capsule, bristling with prickles, and polyspermous. Its 
glabrous seeds enclose under their thick coats an embryo analogous 
to that of the greater part of the Buettneriads. 

VII. LASIOPETALUM SERIES. 
This series was at first formed of the single genus Lasopetalum,' 
from which it derives its name. Since then it has been divided into 
Thomasia corylifolia, 

Fie. 130. 
Floriferous branch, 

Fia. 131. Fie, 133. Fra. 132. 
Bud (8). Loug. sect. of flower ($). Expanded flower ($). 

1 Sm., in Trans. Linn. Soc., iv. 216.—J. Gay,  H, BN., in Adansonia, ii. 178 ; ix. 341.—B. H., 
in Mém. Mus., vii. 445, t. 18, 19.—DC., Prodr.,  Gen., 228, 984, n. 40.—Corethrostyles ENDL., 
i. 489.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iii.495.—Enpt., Nov. Stirp. Mus. Vindob. Dec. n. 1; Gen. n. 
Gen., n. 5325.—PAYER, Organog., 41, t.9.— 5326. 
