NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
or shrubs; leaves alternate, crowded; stipules 2, lateral; flowers 
axillary to upper leaves, sometimes to inconstant or caducous bracts, 
solitary; stipules laterally persistent; pedicels short, bracteolate' 
(Sandwich Ins.*). 
4. Rinorea Avsu.’— Flowers regular or subregular, 5-merous ; 
sepals imbricated. Petals sessile or very shortly unguiculate, equal 
or subequal, imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous; filaments 
free, or more or less connate, appendiculate or naked at back ; 
anthers introrse, 2-rimose ; connective produced beyond cells, free, 
approximate or cohering in rings. Germen l-locular; placentas 3, 
1- œ-ovulate ; style straight, stigmatiferous at apex, disk sometimes 
formed of 5 free glands (Seyphellandra'). Fruit dry, or sometimes 
outwardly fleshy or baccate, indehiscent (?) or dehiscing with diffi- 
culty (Zasiospermum, Gleospermum'), or much oftener elastically or 
simply dehiscing (Zwrinorea), sometimes externally covered with setas 
very densely and softly echinate (J/edusa’). Seeds few, externally 
glabrous or rarely gossypinous (Las/ospermum) ; testa coriaceous or 
crustaceous ; albumen fleshy.—Trees, or more frequently shrubs ; 
leaves alternate or more rarely opposite, entire or serrate; stipules 
small; flowers® solitary, or oftener in simple or ramified racemes, 
sometimes cymiferous, axillary or terminal (4// Trop. and Subtrop. 
regions [except Australia ?}). 

1 Bracteoles often analogous to sepals, margin 
paler subscarious, much approximate to genus 
Rinorea sect. Pentaloba, ditfers in petals con- 
nivent at base, and connective not produced. 
2 Spee, 2,3. A. Gray, loc. cit. 
8 Guian., i. 285, t. 93 (1775).—J., Gen., 
287.—Porr., Dict., vi. 211.—Lamx., J/l., t. 
134.—Riana AvBL., loc. cit., 237, t. 94.—J., 
loc. cit..—Porr., Dict., vi. 196; T/l., t. 135.— 
Conohoria AvBI.., loc. cit., 239, t. 95.—LamMk., 
Dict., ii. 96.—Conoria J., loc, cit.— Passoura 
AUBL., op. cit., Suppl., 21, t. 380.—Pentaloba 
Lour, Fl. Cochinch. (1790), 154.—Physi- 
phora SOLAND., mss. (ex R. Br., Congo, 440).— 
Alsodeia Duv.-Tu., Hist. Vég. Afr. (1804), 55, 
t. 17, 18.—Gine., in DC. Prodr., i. 312.— 
Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, v. 497.—Envu., Gen, 
n, 6047.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 108.—B. H., 
Gen., 118, 970, n. 11.—A/sodea Marr. & Zucc., 
Nov. Gen. et Spec., i. 27, t. 19~21.—Ceran- 
thera Pat. BEAUv., Fl. Owar. et Ben, ii. 
(1807), 10, t. 65, 66.—Dripax Nor., mss. (ex 
ENDL.).— Vareca Roxs., Fl. Ind., i. 647.— 
Prosthesia Br, Bijdr., 866. — Dioryctandra 
Hassk., Retzia, 125.—Imhofia Zour. & Mor. 

in Evs, Jav. n. 2979 (De gener. nom. prior. cfr. 
H. BN., in Adansonia, x. fase. 12). 
4 Tuw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 21.—B. H., Gen., 
120i 17: 
5 H. By., in Adansonia, loc. cit. 
6 Tr. & Ph, in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xvii, 
128.—H. BN., in Adansonia, loc. cit.— Gloio- 
spermum B. H., Gen., 119, n. 13.—ENDL., 
Watp., Ann., vii. 219. 
7 Lour., Fl. Cochinch, (éd. 1790), 406.— 
Enpt., Gen., n. 5329. 
8 Small, usually yellow or whitish. 
9 Spee. 40, of which 20 are American. 
H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 387, t. 491 
(Conohoria)—A. 8. H., Pl. Us. Bras., t. 10; 
Pl. Rem. Brés., t. 319; Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 
148 (Alsodeia).—Hoox., Icon.,t. 63 (Conohoria). 
—Monrnic., Pl. Nouv. Amér., t. 46, 47,—SEEM., 
Voy. Her., Bot., t, 14 (Alsodeia).—Tr. & PL. 
in Ann. Sc, Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 126 (Alsodeia). 
—Grises., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 26.—Tvu., in 
Ann, Se. Nat. sér. 5, ix. 303 (Alsodea).—MiQ., 
Fl. Ind.-Bat., Suppl, i. 160.—Oxxv., F1. Trop. 
Afr., i. 106 (Alsodeia).—Hook. ¥, & THOMS., 
Fl, Brit. Ind., i. 186 (Atsodeia). — Wazr., 
