282 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
are placed: ZLudia, having a patera-shaped receptacle, from five to 
eight sepals, much imbricated, without corolla, a gynæceum analogous 
to that of Ryania, Casearia, and Scolopia; Kuhlia, consisting of 
American plants, scarcely distin- 
guished from Ludia by a slightly 
more concave receptacle, and the 
coloured sepals, from three to five in 
number, which are imbricated, the 
fruit being fleshy and indehiscent ; 
Banara, which, with the fruit and 
flower of Kuhlia, has a calyx of 
from three to five valvate sepals, 
and a similar number of petals, 
similar to the sepals, but imbri- 
; fs cated ; Aphloia, which, with the re- 
Fra. 314. Fie. 815. : 
Flower (+). Long. sect. of flower, ceptacular cup of Scolopia, and a 
much imbricated calyx, has only 
one carpel and one parietal placenta in the ovary ; Azara (figs. 314, 
315), which has the same cup-like receptacle, sepals valvate or 
nearly so, without corolla, a unilocular ovary with several placentas, 
but surmounted by a simple style, the fleshy fruit being scarcely 
dehiscent at the apex; Pyramidocarpus, which has the folioles of the 
perianth variable in number, three sepals, then from six to ten 
sepaloid petals passing gradually from the pieces of the calyx to 
those of the androceum. 
Azara crassifolia, 

A last subseries, 4datiee, is formed of one single genus Adatia, 
which has the concave receptacle of Guidonia, tetramerous apetalous 
flowers, valvate sepals, perigynous stamens, from five to ten in 
number, or still more considerable, accompanied or not by sterile 
filiform filaments, the leaves in all the species being opposite, 
without stipules, and the flowers smali, numerous, and arranged in 
terminal racemes. 

IV. LACISTEMA SERIES. 
Lacistema, which seems to us to have been rightly indicated as 
a reduced type of Bixacee, has flowers (figs. 316-819) united in 

1 Sw., Prodr. (1788), 12; Fl. Ind. Occ., ii.  Marr., Nov. Gen, et Spec., i, 56, t. 94, 95.— 
1091, t. 21.—Porr., Dict., Suppl. iii. 282— Linz, Veg. Kingd., 329, fig. 225.— ENpt., 
