320 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
receptacle, 1-locular; style simple tubular, apex stigmatiferous, sub- 
entire or 3, 4-lobed; placentas parietal, same in number, o-ovulate.* 
Berry subglobose, with often apiculate style, sometimes dehiscent at 
apex; seeds «; testa crustaceous; embryo albuminous, straight or 
slightly incurved ; cotyledons rather wide.—Shrubs or more rarely 
trees ;? leaves entire or serrate; stipules small or oftener rather 
large, foliaceous ; flowers* fasciculate or in short spikes or racemes, 
sometimes corymbose or subumbellate’ (South Brazil and Chili’). 
23. Pyramidocarpus OLiv.—Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
shortly cupulate. Sepals 3, 4, gradually proceeding to 4-10 coria- 
ceous petals, and perigynously inserted with them, much imbri- 
cated. Stamens 20-30, perigynous ; filaments erect, short; anthers 
oblong subbasifixed ; cells linear, marginally adnate to rather flat 
connective, longitudinally rimose. Germen free, 3-agonal, 1-locular, 
attenuated into 3 smail styles stigmatiferous at apex; placentas 3, 
parietal, alternating with styles, -ovulate. ‘Fruit large,’ very 
thick, coriaceous, wide, cubical or pyramidal; angles thickened, ro- 
tund; faces carinate at middle; style short cuspidate, 3, 4-valved, 
oligospermous. Seeds large, wide, oblong or subrotund, angular ; 
testa crustaceous, rugulose, covered with thin pulp; albumen 
copious, fleshy; embryo?— A small glaberrimous tree; small 
branches terete, smooth, annulate above base of leaves; leaves 
alternate petiolate, coriaceous, oblong, integerrimus, bright ; petiole 
thickened at apex ; stipules fallen ;” flowers* in dense short axillary 
spike ;’ pedicels very short articulated; bracts very short (Zropical 
Western Africa”). 
24. Abatia R. & Pav."—Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous; re- 

Don, in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ., x. 117.—Ho0x. 
& ARN., Beech. Voy. Bot., t. 4.—Ctos, in C. 
Gay Fl. Chil., i. 191.— Bot. Mag., t. 5178.— 
1 Ovules incompletely anatropous, sometimes 
suborthotropous ; micropyle introrse superior ; 
coats double. In À, crassifolia (cultivated in 
our gardens) superior bud much younger than 
others. 
? Very bitter. 
3 Virescent, or (if the anthers are coloured) 
abundantly golden. 
+ A genus certainly allied to Calantica and 
Homalium, according to PAYER (Fam. Nat., 
110), “cæterum inter Bixineas (Flacourtieas) et 
Samydaceas (Banareas) quasi medium,” (B. H., 
loc. cit.). 
5 Spee. ad 12. R. & Pav., Syst, 137. — 
Papp, & Enpz., Nov. Gen. et Spec., ii. t. 167.— 
Bot, Reg., t. 1788.—Watp., Rep., 1.104; Ann., 
i. 62; vii. 226. 
6 In Journ. Linn. Soc., ix. 171.—B. H., 
Gen., 799, 1007, n. 8. 
7 Of the size of Avellana. 
8 “ Buds small, globose, glabrous,” 
3 Inferior, younger, 
10 Spee. 1. P. Blackii Oxtv., loc. cit—Mast., 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 495. 
ll Prodr., 78, t. 14.—DC., Prodr., i. 503.— 
Don, in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. x. 121.—EnDt., 
Gen., n. 6160,—PL., in Hook, Lond, Journ., iv. 
