268 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
(evergreen) sessile or semi-amplexicaul; flowers pedunculate cymose ; 
peduncle compressed, 3- or o-flowered; bracts subfoliaceous (Zrop 
America, Ind. Arch). 
18. Caraipa Augr.®— Flowers nearly of Bonnetia ; stamens some- 
times connate at base; anthers short, introrse, versatile ; connective 
produced at apex in pit, glandular. Germen 3-locular; style at 
apex thick stigmatiferous, shortly 3-lobed; cells 3; effete often 1, 
2; ovules in each cell 2 or more rarely 3, descending ; micropyle 
extrorse superior. Capsule 3-quetrous, septicidal 3-valved ; valves of 
endocarp finally separating from exocarp ; columella 3-quetrous or 
3-winged. Seeds solitary, flat; embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons 
large flat, emarginate at base or subarticulate, embracing superior 
radicle.—Trees ; leaves alternate, petiolate, penninerved, crowded 
with small transverse veins; flowers* in clusters often corymbose, 
simple or compound, axillary or terminal (7ropical America’). 
19. Mahurea Ausr.®— Flowers of Caraipa; petals contorted, 
more rarely imbricated. Stamens , scarcely connate at base; an- 
thers oblong subbasifixed ; connective glandular produced, hollow at 
apex. Germen perfectly or imperfectly 3-locular; style more or 
less dilated stigmatiferous at apex; ovules ©, linear, j-seriate, 
imbricated downwards. Capsule septicidal above; columella short ; 
seeds co, linear membranous; embryo exalbuminous straight. — 
Trees ; leaves alternate, often petiolate ; stipules small, usually very 
caducous or (as it seems) flowers’ in terminal racemes, usually elon- 
gated, scantily ramified cymiferous (770p. South America’). 

1 Spee. 3, of which 1 is Asiatic. —Vau, Symb. 
Bot., ii. t. 42 (Hypericum).—A. Gray, dimer. 
Expl. Exp., Bot., i, 213 (Ploiarium).—M1iq., Fl. 
Ind.- Bat., i, p. ii. 490 (Ploiarium). — Tux, in 
Ann, Se. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 8340.—Watr., Rep., 
ii. 801; v. 132 (Ploiarium), 133; Ann., i. 121. 
2 Guian., i. 561 (part.), t. 223, fig. 3, 4.—J., 
Gen., 334.,—Cuols., in Mém. Gen., xiv. 163.— 
Camsess., Mém. Ternstr., t. 18.—ENDL,, Gen., 
n. 5420.—BEnTH., in Journ, Linn, Soc., v. 61. 
—B.H., Gen., 188, n. 29. 
3 Sometimes large white sweet-smelling; pe- 
tals whitish unsymmetrical, in præfloration exter- 
nally virescent at margin. 
4 Spec. ad 8. Mart. & Zucc. Nov. Gen. et 
Spec., i. t. 65.—Watpr., Rep. i. 374; ii, 802 
Ann., i. 121; vii. 375. 
® Guian., 558, t. 222.—J., Gen, 434— 
Desrouss., in Lamk. Dict., iii. 679.—Cam- 
BESS., in Mém. Mus., xvi. 411, t. 1 C.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 557.—Spacn, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 71. 
—ENDL., Gen. n. 5422,—BENTH,, in Journ, 
Linn, Soc. v. 64, — Cnois., in Jlém. Gen. 
xiv. 158.—B. H., Gen., 188, n. 30.— Bonnetia 
SCHREB., Gen., 363 (nec MARr.). 
5 Pink, handsome. 
7 Spec. 3, 4. Tux, in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, 
vill, 340.—Watp., Rep., ii. 802; Ann, i, 122; 
vii. 376, 
