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In other species of the same genus, the petals are more or less 
clearly alternate with the sepals; in others the flowers are poly- 
gamous dicecious ;' the style and its stigmatiferous divisions are 
very variable as to form and dimensions ;? the number of the ovary 
cells is three or four, and they are bi- or tri-ovulate ; the pericarp is 
sometimes thin and almost membranous, and sometimes thick and 
suberous.* But in all the known species, some twenty‘ in number, the 
stem is arborescent or frutescent ; the leaves alternate, persistent, 
entire or dentate, coriacous, exstipulate. The flowers are axillary, 
pedunculate, solitary or disposed in cymes; and their calyx is 
accompanied by two or three bracts resembling the sepals, but 
smaller. Three parts of the known species are natives of tropical 
America; the rest of the warmest parts of Asia and the Indian 
Archipelago. . 
Beside Zernstremia are placed the nearly allied 
genera Adinandra, Eroteum, and ÆZvrya, only sepa- 
rated from them in an entirely artificial manner : 
the first, because its seeds are small and numerous 
instead of being large and few in number; the 
second, because in its small flowers, often poly- 
gamous or dicecious, with petals free or scarcely 
united at the base, the ovules, indefinite in number, 
are inserted towards the middle of the internal angle 
of the ovary cells; the third, because its dicecious 
flowers have generally an oligandrous androceum. 
In the two genera Visnea and Anneslea, the general organization 
is the same; but we make of them a small subseries (//snece), 
because their floral receptacle, instead of being convex, becomes 
more or less concave ; the insertion of the perianth and the andro- 
Visnea Mocanera. 

Fia. 264. 
Induviate fruit (2). 

! This is found especially in 7. penangiana Pav., Prodr., t. 21.—H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 
CHors., which has been made the type of the 
genus Ærythrochiton (Grirr., Notul., iv. 565; 
—Cuots., in Mém. Gen., xiv. 126, nec Mart.). 
? The divisions are very large in Erythro- 
chiton, and radiating in Reinwardtia. 
3 It is divided into six cavities in Valckeria 
(Ku. & Karst., ex Enpt., Gen., Suppl., iv. 66; 
—Cnuols., loc. cit., 125); but the ovary being 
three-celled, they are supposed here to be only 
half-cells, doubtless separated by false parti- 
tions. 
4Sw., Fl. 
VOL. IV. 
Ind. Oce., ii. 929.—Ruiz & 
Spec., v. 207, t. 463.—A. S. H., Fl. Bras. 
Mer., i. 231.—Mortic., Pl. Nouv. Amér., t. 
12, 13.—A. Ricu., Fl. Cub., t. 27—Wicaur, 
Icon., t. 47 (Cleyera)—$res. & Zucc., Fl. 
Jap., t. 80.—Miq., Fl. -Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 
470.—GrisEB., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 103; Cat. 
Pl. Cub., 35.—Turoz., in Bull. Mosc, (1858), 
i, 241; (1863), i. 577.—SEEM., Voy. Her., 
Bot., 87.—A. Gray, Amer. Expl. Exp., Bot., i. 
209.—Tr. & Pu, in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 4, 
xviii. 258.—Watp., Rep., i. 368; ii. 804; v. 
130; Ann., iv. 341; vii, 361. 
