178 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
first those of some of the few species cultivated in our greenhouses, 
such as Z. cyaneus (figs. 199-201), we shall see that their receptacle 
is convex and considerably elongated. It bears in succession five 
pointed sepals, valvate in the bud, five alternate petals, induplicate 
in the bud, furnished inside the base with a small, glandular, laciniate 
projection unequally cut towards the summit. Above the perianth 
the receptacle is raised a little in the form of a short column, thick- 
ened in the upper part into a circular, glandular, crenate, mammæ- 
form disk, above which the stamens are inserted. These are super- 
Elæocarpus cyaneus. 

Fie. 200, 
Diagram. 
F1@. 201. 
Long. section of flower (3). 
Fra. 199. 
Bud (3). 
posed in phalanges to the petals in the concavity of which they are 
found lodged in the bud ;' each phalanx is composed of seven or 
eight stamens, with free filaments, and two-celled anthers, whose 
linear cells are surmounted by a pointed prolongation of the connec- 
tive, within which they open in their upper part only, by two short 
clefts, confluent at the upper extremity... Within the stamens the 
apex of the receptacle bears the gynzeceum, formed of an ovary with 
two incomplete cells, each containing an indetinite number of anatro- 

ii. 25; in Payer Fam. Nat., 277.—B. H., Gen., 
239, 987, n. 38.—BocaQ., in Adansonia, vii. 52. 
—LEM. & Dene. Tr. Gén. 341.— Ganitrus 
GÆRIN., Fruct., ii. 271, t. 1389.—Dicera Forst., 
Char. Gen., 79, t. 40.—DC., Prodr., i. 520.— 
Craspedum Lour., Fl. Cochinch., 336.—Ade- 
nodus LOUR., loc. cit., 294,—Lochneria Scor., 
Introd., 1232.—Aceratium DC., Prodr., i, 529. 
—Acronodia Bu., Bijdr., 128. — Acrozus 
SPRENG., Syst. Cur. Post., 149.—Monocera 
Jack, Mal. Mise. (ex Hoox., Bot. Misc., ii. 
85).—Wiant & ARN., Prodr., i. 83.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5387.— Beythea ENDL., Gen., n. 5386.— 
Perinkara ADANS., Fam. des Pl., ii, 447, Sikki- 
mensisand glabrescens.—M ast. F1. B. Ind.,ii.403. 
1 In many other species, there is besides, a 
stamen in the interval of each bundle, that is to 
say, opposite each sepal. 
? These clefts are generally slightly introrse, 
sometimes quite lateral, 
