TERNSTR@MIACE A. 245 
The fruit has an endocarp, separating at maturity from the exterior 
layers of the pericarp. Mahurea, with the same perianth, has elon- 
gated anthers, almost basifixed, glanduliferous at the apex, and 
numerous, linear imbrieated ovules, disposed in numerous series. 
The leaves are alternate, while those of Haploclathra are opposite or 
nearly so, with the same flowers, except that the ovary cells contain 
but one ascendent ovule. The leaves are also said to be opposite 
in Peciloneuron, which has only two biovulate cells. In Jarila, a 
very nearly allied genus, although it has sometimes been ascribed to 
another family, the leaves are opposite, as in Pæciloneuron and Haplo- 
clathra ; but the tetramerous or pentamerous flowers, disposed in 
axillary racemes, have petals imbricated and not contorted, as in the 
preceding genera. The stamens are short, and have their introrse 
anthers surmounted by a two-lobed gland. The capsular fruit is 
narrow, elongated, and septicidal, and the seeds which it contains 
are prolonged into a fringe at the two extremities. 

V. PELLICERIA SERIES. 
Pelliceria (fig. 268) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. The 
short receptacle bears five small free imbricated sepals, and five 
petals, much longer, imbricated and caducous. The androceum is 
formed of five alternipetalous stamens. Each of them has a free 
hypogynous filament, and an elongated anther, with a narrow 
elongated connective, without the base of which the filament is in- 
serted ; the anther has two linear cells adnate to the edges of the 
connective, longitudinally dehiscent. The stamens, nearly of the 
same length as the style, are each lodged in a longitudinal groove, 
the surface being hollow.2 The gynæceum is superior : it is com- 
posed of a sessile, articulate ovary, tapering above into a long conical 
style, the apex bearing two small stigmatiferous teeth, scarcely dis- 
tinct. The ovary is hollowed into two cells;* but they are very 
unequal: one of them, much narrower, remaining sterile ;* and the 

1 Te, & Pu, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 3 There should be five, of which four abort 
380. — Pelliciera B. H., Gen. 186, n. 21. early in the plant of New Grenada, according 
Placed by the last of these authors in the tribe to Triana. 
Gordoniee. ; 4 According to BENTHAM and Hooker it 
? In dry specimens we have seen the anthers should enclose a sessile ovule aborting early. 
detached from these grooves for a variable dis- 
tance in their upper part, 
