198 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
tubular at apex, hians stigmatiferous, 4—8-denticulate. Capsule 
oblong, echinate, loculicidal; valves 4-8, transversely falsely septate 
between seeds. Seeds obovate compressed ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
rather thick ; cotyledons flat.—Trees or small shrubs ; hairs stellate ; 
leaves alternate, dentate, or unequally 3-5-lobed; stipules small, 
lanceolate or setaceous ; flowers' in terminal cymes, 1-parous, simple, 
or little ramified, few; bracts 1-lateral, sometimes incised’ (7/ropical 
Western Africa’). See p. 172. 
20. Corchorus L.'—Flowers 4, 5-merous; receptacle often short 
or elongated between the insertion of stamens and perianth, or more 
rarely (Guazumoides’) produced beyond perianth in a slender column 
dilated at apex, disciform, bearing the sexual organs.’ Sepals val- 
vate and petals alternate, naked at base, imbricate or more rarely 
contorted. Stamens either 2 or 3 times as many as petals ;’ all fertile, 
or the interior 4, 5, oppositipetalous, antherless, petaloid (Corcho- 
ropsis), or of, all fertile; filaments free; anthers introrse or 
versatile, and finally extrorse (Corchoropsis) 2-locular, longitudi- 
nally rimose. Germen 2—5-locular ; cells complete or very incom- 
plete, 1-locular; placentas sometimes not quite touching the middle 
of cell œ-ovulate; style simple; apex dilated hollow, truncate, 
denticulate or crenulate stigmatiferous. Capsule short, subglobose 
(Ganja) or much oftener elongate-siliquiform, naked, not horned at 
apex, 2-valved (Corefa"), or loculicidal and septicidal 3—10-valved 
(Corctoides’), afterwards at apex divergent in 2-5 horns (Cerato- 
corela*), sometimes ovate-oblong, subcylindrical, velvety or muricate 

1 Sometimes large, bluish violet. 5 Whence the section presents a transition to 
? Gen. scarcely distinct from Corcho- Triumfetta. 
Tus. 7 Often 8,in4-merousflowersof Antichorus (L., 
S 
3 Spec. 2 (v.3?). Done. in Deless Ic, Sel. 
v. t. 1.—Masr., in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 260. 
—H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 183,—WALP., Ann., 
i. 110, 
4 Gen., n. 675 (nec T.).—J., Gen., 290.— 
GZÆRTN., Fruct., i. 8307; ii. 482.—Lamx., Dict., 
ii. 103; Suppl., iii. 349; JZUL., t. 478.— DC. 
Prodr., i. 504.—Spacn, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 7. 
—Enpu., Gen., n. 5871.—B. H., Gen., 235, 
986, n. 18.— PAYER, Organog., 23.—A. Gray, 
Gen. Ill., t. 1387.—Bocq., in Adansenia, vii. 
42.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 192.—Merlensia 
VErLOZ., Fl. Flum., v. t. 112.—Coreta P. Br., 
Jam., 147. (incl.: Antichorus L., Corchoropsis 
Sres. & Zucc., Nettoa H. By.). 
5 DC, Prodr., i. 505 (sect. v.). 
Mantiss., n.1257). Stirps and aspect distinct, 
8 Sirs. & Zucc., in Abh, Akad. Münch., iii. 
37, t. 4.—B. H., Gen., 235, 986, n. 18.— 
Boca., in Adansonia, vii. 36. 
% South American and Australian species. 
W Whence Nettoa (H. BN., in Adansonia, vi. 
238, t. 7 ;—B. H., Gen., 286, n. 16 a) better 
made a section of Corchorusis ; receptacle as in 
-Guazumoides, elevated beyond perianth and 
dilated at apex. The plant affords also an easy 
transition to the Triumfettas. Petals inserted 
with stamens. 
1 Rumpx., Herb. Amboin., v. t. 78, fig. 1.— 
DC, Loc. cit. (sect. iv.). 
12 P, Br. Jam. (ex DC.). 
13 DC., Prodr., 504 (sect. ii.). 
