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filaments, 5-adelphous, 1-antheriferous ; anthers reniform, 1-locular. 
Germen 3-5-locular, ovules in each cell 2, inserted at internal angle, 
ascending ; micropyle extrorse lateral; style capitate stigmatiferous at 
apex. Fruit large, vertically 5-winged, dry, linear-ligneous at centre, 
indehiscent. Seed sometimes 1, involute in gummy pulp, suberect ; 
embryo exalbuminous, cotyledons contortuplicate, involving short 
inferior radicle.—Lofty trees; coma often aphyllous at anthesis ; 
hairs stellate ; leaves alternate petiolate digitate-5-7-lobed ; flowers' 
ebracteolate, in umbelliferous cymes (Zrop. America’). 
82. Hampea Scuuri.*—Flowers hermaphrodite, or oftener polyga- 
mous ; calyx cyathiform, straight truncate or obscurely 5-crenate, or 
dentate, valvate, or slightly imbricate. Petals 5, oblique, obovate, 
longer than calyx, connateat base among themselves, and with staminal 
tube, inwardly villous at base ; præfloration contorted. Stamens , 
1-adelphous ; tube short, filaments afterwards free elongated ; anthers 
reniform. Germen (in male flower rudimentary or 0), 3-locular ; 
style short, apex divided into short thick stigmatiferous lobes. 
Ovules in cells few. Capsule globose, encircled by base of calyx, locu- 
licidal, inwardly more or less densely villous. Seeds few, unequally- 
ovoid or subglobose; funicle dilated in thick fleshy conoid 
aril; albumen scanty membraniform ; embryo fleshy oleose- 
punctuate; cotyledons much contortuplicate, involving straight 
inferior radicle-—Small trees ; leaves alternate, generally long petio- 
late, stipulate, entire, cordate or subcordate palminerved at base ; 
stipules narrow linear, often acuminate, deciduous ; flowers axillary 
cymose; bracts 3 inserted at summit of pedicel’ (Columbia, Mexico’). 
83. Scleronema Brnru.’—Calyx clavate campanulate ; 4-5-lobed, 
valvate. Petals 4, 5, contorted, base scarcely adnate to staminal 
column. Stamens 8, base of filaments connate in short tubular 

1 Small, pink. 
2 Spec. 2, 3. H. B., Pl. Æquin., ii. t. 113. 
—W., Spec. Plant., iii, 844 (Pourretia).—H. B. 
K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., ii. 305, t, 183.—Tr. & 
Pu., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér, 4, xvii. 323. 
# In Linnea, xi. 371 (nec NuEs).—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5310.—B. H., Gen., 211, n. 45. 
* Whether distinct from Montezuma (DC., 
Prodr., i. 477;—B. H., Gen. 212, n. 50) 
a Mexican tree, known only from a figure, of 
which the calyx is said to be hemispherically 
truncate; stamens spirally l-adelphous; style 
clavate and fruit baccate; cells 4, 5, or a- 
spermous ? 
» Spec. 2. Tr. & Pu. in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 
4, xvii. 188.—Watp., Ann., vii. 417. 
6 In Journ. Linn. Soc., vi. 109.—B. H., 
Gen., 211, n. 46. 
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