348 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
and superior ; it is composed of a unilocular ovary, surmounted by a 
style swollen at apex, and covered with stigmatic papillæ. In the 
ovary three parietal placentas are seen, the two posterior each 
bearing an indefinite number of ascending anatropous ovules, with 
interior and inferior micropyle.' The fruit is a capsule, whose dehis- 
cence is only according to the midrib of the placentas; so that the 
three valves of the fruit, superposed to the sepals 1, 2, and 3, bear 
the seeds on their edges. Their coats cover a fleshy albumen enve- 
loping an axile embryo with cylindrical radicle, longer than the 
cotyledons. 
Some dozen species’ of Sauvagesia are admitted. They are gla- 
brous herbs, sometimes suffrutescent at the base. The leaves are 
alternate, simple, entire or serrulate upon the edges, accompanied 
by two lateral, pectinate-ciliate stipules. The elegant flowers’ are 
axillary and solitary, or collected in terminal racemes. All are 
natives of the warm parts of America; S. erecta, however, is also 
found in all the tropical regions of the Old World. 
Beside Sauvagesia are placed two very analogous types from the 
Indian Archipelago, which perhaps ought not to be generically 
Lavradia glandulosa, 

Fia. 377. 
Long. sect. of flower. 
Fra, 376. 
Flower (4). 
distinguished. These are: Schuuwrmansia, with oppositipetalous 
stamens, each represented by a linear or subulate filament, scarcely 
larger than the numerous tongues of the disk, which they resemble 
a little in form; and ÂVeckia, which, besides the tongues, has a 

1 They have two coats. 
2 Jacg., Amer., 77, t. 51.—AUBL., Guian., 
t. 100.—A. S. H., Pl. Rem. Brés., 58, t. 1-4; 
Fl, Bras. Mer., ii. 109.—Mart. & Zucc., Nov. 
Gen. et Spec., i, 34, t. 24, 25.—A. Gray, Unit. 
St. Expl. Exp, Bot. i. 97.— Grises, Fl. 
Brit. W.-Ind., 26.—Srrm., Voy. Her. Bot., 
80.—Tr. & Px. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 4, 
xvii. 275.—Tux., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 5, ix. 
320.—Watp., Rep., i. 225; ii. 767; Ann. ii. 
68; iv, 236; vii, 220. 
3 White, pink, or violet. 
