OCHNACE ZL. 377 
inserted on the edges of placenta, recurved on both sides, ascending, 
anatropous. Capsule coriaceous, acute, 3—5-angular, l-celled, sep- 
ticidally 3-5-valved ; seeds », inserted on semiseptate margin, sub- 
imbricated ; testa above or at margin membranous, winged or 
marginate; albumen scanty, fleshy; embryo terete-—Handsome 
ramified glabrous nitid trees or shrubs; twigs terete; leaves alter- 
nate, coriaceous, serrulate, teeth and apex ciliate; nerves crowded, 
parallel, perpendicular or oblique to ribs; stipules 2, ciliate ; flowers 
in simple terminal racemes, fructiferous lateral; pedicels articulate 
above base, 2-bracteolate (Brazil). See p. 368. 
7. Godoya R. & Pav.'—Flowers nearly of Luwemburgia ; sepals 5, 
unequal (interior shorter), scarious, base inwardly fimbrilliferous, 
closely imbricated, deciduous. Petals 5, obovate, convoluto-imbri- 
cate or contorted. Stamens 10-20, secund declinate ; filaments very 
short or almost wanting; anthers erect, declinate; cells 2, linear, 
sometimes transversely rugulose (2utidanthera’), poricidal at apex. 
Germen excentric, shortly stipitate, rostrate, minutely stigmatiferous 
at apex; cells 5, incomplete ; ovules æ, ascending, inserted on margin 
of placenta, reflexed on both side. Capsule more or less completely 
5-celled, septicidal ; valves 5, pendulous from 10-parted axis, finally 
separating. Seeds , compressed, ascendent ; embryo ?—Fine trees; 
branches annulate, lenticellate ; leaves alternate, coriaceous, simple 
(Lugodoya'), stipulate, crenate or serrate, sometimes pinnate’ (Æwti- 
danthera) ; flowers in terminal axillary simple or ramified cymiferous 
racemes (Peru ; N. Grenada). 
8? Cespedesia Goup.’— Flowers nearly of Godoya; sepals 5, 
small, subequal, much imbricated, deciduous. Petals 5, longer, 
convolute. Stamens 10—c, all fertile; sometimes sub-3-seriate ; 
filaments free, short or elongated, thickened below apex; anthers 
basifixed, linear, 4-agonal, sometimes curved, 2-porous or 2-rimose 
at apex. Germen subexcentric, shortly stipitate, tapering at 
1 Prodr., 58, t. 11; Syst, 101.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 558.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5427.—Pt., in 
Hook. Lond. Journ., v. 597, t. 19-22. — 
B. H., Gen. 319, n. 9.— Godovia PERS. 
4 Pt, loc. cit., 596, t. 21, 22. 
5 «Tune exstipulatis?” (B. H.). 
6 Spec. 2, 3. Tr. & Pu., in Ann. Se. Nat. 
sér. 4, xvili, 272.—Watp., Rep., i. 375; Ann., 
Enchirid., i. 467. 
2 Pr, loc. cit., 599, t. 19, 20. 
3 Pores sometimes prominent pale before 
dehiscence. 
i, 122, 176. 
7 In Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 3, ii. 369.—Pu., in 
Hook. Lond. Journ., v. 645.—B. H., Gen. 
320, n. 11. 
