378 ATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
apex stigmatiferous at apex, simple, not dilated; placentas 5, or 
more rarely 4, parietal, more or less prominent, sometimes inwardly 
contiguous ; ovules in each o, 2-seriate, ascending, crowded. Cap- 
sule incompletely 4, 5-celled, septicidally 4, 5-valved ; placentas some- 
times separating ; seeds w, linear, small; testa pellucid, produced 
in filiform sheath; embryo albuminous, straight.—Large glabrous 
trees ; secondary branches annulate; leaves alternate, large, coria- 
ceous, oblong-ovate; base narrow, crenate ; nerves distant, arched 
or substraight ; secondary nerves crowded, subtransverse ; stipules 
squamiform or sepaloid, inserted high up the petiole, sometimes 
inwardly furnished with filaments at base; flowers' in large terminal 
ramified cymiferous racemes’ (Zrop. East. S. America’). 
9. Blastemanthus PL‘ Flowers nearly of Godoya; sepals 5, 
passing externally into 2—5- or more rarely », 2-stichous, imbricated 
bracts, the smaller lower; closely in præfloration imbricate, deci- 
duous. Petals 5, narrow, contorted or convoluted. Stamens fertile 
about 10, secund declinate, surrounded externally by staminodes 
5-20, subulate or filiform, unequal; filaments short; anthers erect, 
elongate-linear, laterally 2-sulcate, rostrate, 2-porous at apex. Germen 
subexcentric, stipitate, fusiform, tapering into rostrate style, simple 
stigmatiferous at apex; cells 3-5, incomplete; ovules æ, 2-seriate, 
inserted on placentas, recurved outwardly at margin, ascending, im- 
bricated. Capsule fusiform, attenuated on both sides, rather terete, 
rostrate at apex, septicidally 2-valved ; endocarp of each cell subpy- 
reniform, subpergamentaceous, interior longitudinally hians ; seeds ©, 
linear; embryo . . . ?—Glabrous trees; leaves alternate, coriaceous ; 
nerves very thin, parallel ; stipules (?) above leaves dentiform, deci- 
duous ; flowers’ in terminal and supra-axillary simple and compound 
cymiferous racemes, springing from squamous buds (North Brazil, 
Guiana’). 
10. Pœcilandra Tu1.°—Flowers nearly of Godoya (smaller); sepals 

1 Rather large, handsome, yellow. 
? Gen. very approximate to Godoya. 
3 Spec. 4. R. & PAv., Syst., 102; Fl. Per. 
ined., v. t. 359 (Godoya).—H. B. K., Nov. 
Gen. et Spec., vii. 277 (Marcgravia).—Tr. & 
Pu., in Ann, Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xviii, 274— 
SEEM., Voy. Her, Bot., 97.—WaAtpP., Ann., i. 
178; iv. 421. 
4 In Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 644.—B. H., 
Gen., 320, n. 9. 
5 Leaving on the top of the pedicel, after the 
decay of the budlike calyx, scars like sepals. 
6 As to corolla and stamens nearly like 
Ouratea, buds oblong gemmiform. 
7 Spec. 2. Mart. & Zucc., Nov. Gen. et 
Spec., i. 118, t. 74 (Godoya).—WAtpP., Ann., 
dade 
8 In Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 3, viii, 342.— Pr, 
see Linden, 63.—B. H., Gen., 320, n. 10. 
