254 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
We group them in seven series, of the distinctive characters of 
which we must first give a summary. 
I. Turm.—Corolla polypetalous or more or less gamopetalous, 
imbricated. Stamens with anthers often extrorse, then versatile. 
Fruit indehiscent or loculicidal. Seeds exalbuminous or with thin 
albumen, rarely abundant, with straight or curved embryo, cotyle- 
dons oval, smooth, corrugated or folded, and short radicle straight 
or inflexed.—Trees or erect shrubs, with uniflorous peduncles often 
very short.—(7 genera.) 
IT. TernstramiEex.—Corolla imbricated. Stamens with anthers 
basifixed or nearly so. Fruit rarely dehiscent. Seed with fleshy 
albumen often but little abundant, with embryo inflexed or in the 
shape of a horseshoe, and narrow cotyledons, nearly as large as the 
radicle, and shorter.—Trees or erect shrubs, with uniflorous peduncle. 
—(6 genera.) 
III. Savravsr#%.—Corolla imbricated. Anthers versatile. Fruit 
often fleshy, pulpous within, very rarely dehiscent. Seeds small and 
numerous, with abundant albumen, and embryo straight or rarely 
fornicate, with semicylindrical cotyledons, shorter than the radicle. 
— Trees or shrubs, most generally covered with rough or scaly hairs. 
Flowers generally numerous, disposed in ramified racemose cymes. 
—(1 genus.) 
IV. Bonnuti#.—Corolla generally contorted.’ Stamens with 
versatile almost basifixed anthers. Fruit capsular, septicidal. Seeds 
with albumen, but little abundant or wanting, and straight embryo 
with large thick cotyledons and a short radicle.—Trees or erect 
shrubs. Flowers disposed in axillary or more generally terminal 
ramified racemes of cymes.—(8 genera.) 

regular, with a receptacle in the form of a deep  retuse, coriaceous, not punctuate, with nume- 
The 
sac, the glandular throat of which gives inser- 
tion to a valvate calyx unequally cloven in 
anthesis, and five imbricated petals afterwards 
reflexed like the sepals, and an indefinite number 
of stamens, free, or nearly so, with confluent 
two-celled anthers. At the bottom of the purse- 
like receptacle, but without any adherence with 
its walls, is inserted a three-celled ovary, sur- 
mounted by a slender trifid style, with three 
divisions, stigmatiferous at the apex. In the 
internal angle of each cell, quite at the bottom, 
are inserted two collateral ascendent ovules, 
with micropyle directed downwards and inwards. 
The fruit is unknown, The leaves are alternate, 
simple, and stipulate, with obovate-oblong limb 
rous secondary parallel prominent nerves. 
flowers are solitary, or few in number in the 
axils of the leaves; the pedicel bears two 
bracteoles at a certain height. The only known 
species is C. fragrans, BENTH. By the structure 
of the receptacle it appears allied to a certain 
point with the Rosaceæ, with united carpels in 
a single plurilocular ovary; buc its other cha- 
racters are such as will not allow us to place 
it in this family any more than in those to which 
it has already been ascribed. 
1 Except here and there in Mahwrea, and 
almost constantly in Marila, where it is dis- 
tinctly imbricated, 
