294 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Their trunk is often simple,’ and their summit bears a crown of 
alternate leaves, more or less near together, petiolate, exstipulate, 
with a simple digitinerved limb, more or less cut, or more rarely 
compound-digitate, with a number of leaves varying from five to 
twelve. The flowers are axillary, or disposed upon the wood in 
simple racemes, or in clusters of cymes, without bracts. 

IX. TURNERA SERIES. 
Turnerad (figs. 339-342) has regular flowers generally herma- 
phrodite. The exterior perianth, or calyx, has the form of a tube,’ di- 
lating above into a funnel or bell shape, and dividing at this point into 
oblong plates, linear or lanceolate, disposed in quincuncial præflora- 
tion in the bud. The corolla is formed of five petals alternating 
with the divisions of the calyx. They are most generally inserted 
near its throat, and are much developed, so as to be represented by 
large coloured membranous plates,‘ oboval-rounded or spathulate, 
with a short claw, and they are disposed in contorted præfloration in 
the bud. But there are certain species in which the petals, little 
developed, not very brilliant in colour, are reduced to tongues 
which do not surpass or even attain to the height of the sepals, 
while they are too narrow to cover or touch each other, even in 
the bud.’ 
In one of the species, distinguished under the generic name of 
Erblichia, the claw of the petal is crowned by short threads. The 
androceum is formed of five stamens alternate with the petals, and 
either inserted on a level with them, or more usually lower down on 

GriseB., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 297. — Triacis 
Grises., loc. cit. (ex B. H.). 
1 VAUQUEL., in Ann. Chim., xlii. 267. — 
Hozper, in Mem. Werner. Soc., 1. 245.— 
Paprp., loc. cit., ii, 60.—SCHACHT., in Ann, Se. 
Nat., sér. 4, viii. 164. 
2 Prum., Gen., 15, t.12.—L., Gen., n.376.— 
ADANS., Fam. des. Pl., ii. 244.—J., Gen., 313. 
—GÆRIN., Fruct., i, 866, t. 76.—Porr., Dict., 
viii, 141; Suppl, v. 374; ZU, t. 212—DC., 
Prodr., iii. 346.—TurpP., in Dict. Sc. Nat., Atl., 
t. 214.—Spacn, Suit. à Buffon, vi. 250.— 
Linpt., Veg. Kingd., 347, t. 239.—ENDz., Gen., 
n. 5056.—Payer, Fam. Nat. 92.—B. H., 
Gen., 806, n. 1.—LEM. & DCNE., Tr. Gén., 277. 
—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 258.—Pumilea P. 
Br., Jam., 188 (ex Apans.),— Bohadschia 
Priest, Rel. Henk., ii. 98, t. 68.— Tribolacis 
3 This tube is probably of the nature of a 
receptacle, and on this account comparable with 
Samyda. If so, it would be better to say that 
the sepals are free, or nearly so, and that the 
true calyx only commences with the insertion of 
the petals. 
+ Yellow, white, pink, or lilac, with occa- 
sionally a basilar spot of blackish purple. 
5 Especially in 7. decipiens (H. BN., in 
Adansonia, x. 246), of which we have made the 
type of a section Cephalacis, and whose in- 
florescence is in capitula. 
6 SEEM., see er. 
B. H., Gen., 807, n. 2. 
27. — 
Bot., 130, t. 
