242 
ceum is consequently perigynous. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
The receptacle is accrescent 
round the fruit, becoming fleshy, and is found surmounted by the 
persistent divisions of the perianth. 
In Visnea (fig. 264), the calyx 
also becomes fleshy, and surrounds the fruit, without adhering to it ; 
the lower portion only is inserted in the accrescent receptacle, which 
is thick and quite coriaceous, and surmounted by the persistent im- 
bricated calyx. 

Ill. SAURAUJA SERIES. 
Saurauja spectabilis. 

Fie. 265. 
Inflorescence. 

Fia. 266. 
Longitudinal section of flower (2). 
The flowers of Sawrauja‘ (figs. 
265, 266) are hermaphrodite or 
polygamous and regular. Their 
slightly convex receptacle bears, 
first, five unequal sepals, often 
petaloid, arranged in the bud in 
quincuncial præfloration. The pe- 
tals, the same in number and 
alternate, free or united at the 
base into a corolla which falls in 
one single piece, are also imbri- 
cated in the bud. The stamens are 
very numerous, usually united for 
a short distance between them- 
selves and with the base of the 
corolla. The filaments, in other 
respects free, support a 2-celled 
anther, introrse, then versatile, 
dehiscing above by short clefts or 
pores. The gynæceum is supe- 
rior ; it is composed of an ovary 
with five alternipetalous cells, sur- 

Fe 1 W., in Der. Ges. Vatursfr. Berl. n. Scr., 
iii, (1801), 406, t. 4.—DC., Prodr., i. 525.— 
CAMBESS., in Mém. Mus., xvi. 498. — Spacu, 
Suit. à Buffon, iv. 67.—Envt., Gen., n. 5414.— 
CHois., in Mém. Gen., xiv. 113.—B. H., Gen., 
184, n. 15.—H. By., in Payer Fam. Nat.; 267. 
—Palava R. & Pay., Prodr. (1794), 100, t. 22 
(nec Cav.) — Marumia Rurnw., Syll. Pl. 
Ratisb., ii, 10.—Reinwardtia Nurs., Syll. Pl. 
Ratisb., i. 196 (nec SPRENG., nec DvH., nec 
Kortu.).—Apatelia DC., Mém. Ternstr., 34, 
t. 8.—Drtrss., Jc. Sel. iii, t. 26.—Blumia 
SPRENG., Syst., iii, 126.—Davya Mog. & Suss., 
Fl. Mex. ined, (ex DC.).—Leucothea Mog. & 
Sess., loc. cit.—Vanalphimia Lxescu., mss. (ex 
Enpt.)—Obelanthera Turoz., in Bull. Mose. 
(1847), i, 147; (1858), i. 245, Dyen, in FU. 
Ind., ii. 286. 
