BIXACH A. 279 
six imbricated divisions. The androceum is formed of from eight to 
fifteen stamens, the monadelphous filaments inserted at the throat of 
the receptacle forming a tube, being united to a greater or less height 
with the perianth. Their summits are free for a variable dis- 
tance, often inconsiderable, each bearing a two-celled introrse anther 
Samyda serrulata. 

Fria. 305. 
Diagram. 
Fria. 303. 
Bud (à). 
Fig. 304. 
Flower. 
Fie. 306. 
Longitudinal section of flower (3). 
dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts... The gynæceum is free, and 
occupies the bottom of the cup-shaped receptacle ; it is formed of a 
one-celled ovary, surmounted by a style, the stigmatiferous extre- 
mity dilated into a head. Upon the walls of the ovary are seen 
from three® to five placentas, bearing anatropous ovules.’ The fruit 
is more or less fleshy or coriaceous, and terminates by opening from 
above downwards in three, four or five valves. It contains nume- 
rous seeds, each surrounded by a fleshy aril, often laciniate, and the 
crustaceous coats covering a fleshy albumen and an axile embryo 
with conical radicle and foliaceous cotyledons. 
of shrubs of the Antilles, and the neighbouring regions of the 
mainland. The leaves are alternate distichous, spotted with glan- 
dular pellucid dots. The short petiole is accompanied by two small 
lateral stipules. The flowers are solitary or disposed in small cymes 
in the axils of the leaves. Only three or four species are known. 
Samyda consists 

1 Pollen “ovoid-rounded, with four short 
folds ; in water spherical with four short bands, 
give them the appearance of campylotropous 
ovules. They have double coats. Generally 
upon these bands papillæ.” (H. Mout., in Ann. 
Se. Nat., sér 2, iii, 327.) 
? In this case two of the placentas are pos- 
terior (PAYER). 
3 Their hilum is often concave and sur- 
rounded by a cireular pad. The region of their 
micropyle is curved at a late period, so as to 
the upper attenuated part of the placenta bears 
no ovules; it is prolonged into the interior of 
the tubular style. 
4 Jacg., Collect., ii. t. 17. —Sw., Fl.-Ind. 
Oce., ii. 758.—VeENT., Ch, de Pl, t. 43.— 
GriseB., Fl, Brit. W.-Ind., 24.— Bot. May., t. 
550. 
