460 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
or auriculate at base, introrsely 2-rimose. Disk elevated conical- 
tubular, longer than germens. Germens 5, oppositipetalous free, 
l-locular; styles same in number inserted at summit of internal 
angle, sometimes cohering in column, widely capitate stigmatiferous 
at apex; ovules in each cell 2, descending ; micropyle extrorse supe- 
rior. Fruit (surrounded by calyx) of 5 cocci, 2-valved; endocarp 
solute elastically 2-lobed. Seeds in each 1, 2, subreniform; testa 
crustaceous, tuberculate or muricate, within wide hilum and near 
chalaza marked with orbicular opercule ; embryo scantily albuminous ; 
cotyledons much plicate-convolute ; dorsal exterior involving ventral ; 
radicle superior incurved.—Glabrous shrubs simple or slightly 
ramified; leaves against the apex of stems or branches crowded 
alternate elongate-lanceolate, 1-foliolate entire ; flowers hypophyllus 
or on peduncles lateral to leaves drawn beyond axil and more or less 
long connate, with branches sometimes leaf-bearing, alternately 
cymose (Brazil, Guiana, Columbia, Mexico). See. p. 385. j 
7. Almeidea A. S. H.'—Flowers regular or subregular; calyx 
short, 5-dentate, slightly imbricate. Petals 5,’ erect; attenuated at 
base, sometimes inwardly foveolate, erect, imbricate. Stamens 5, 
alternipetalous, free; filaments complanate, inwardly above middle 
canaliculate, above barbate, subulate at apex; anthers oblong, in- 
trorsely 2-rimose, finally versatile. Disk shortly tubular, and gyne- 
ceum of Lrythrochiton. Fruit capsular; cocci free, 1-5, 2-valved, 
1-spermous ; endocarp solute; seed nearly of “rythrochiton—Trees 
or shrubs ; leaves alternate or at summit of branches opposite petio- 
late, 1-foliolate, entire, glandular-punctuate ; flowers* in compound 
racemes, bracteate ; pedicels 2-bracteolate (Brazil). 
8? Spiranthera A. 8. H..—Flowers subregular (nearly of A/mei- 
dea) ; petals 5, elongate-linear, pubescent, sometimes slightly curved, 

1 In Bull, Soc. Philom. (1823), 129; Pl. 
Rem. Brés., i. 142, t. 15; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 
85, t. 18.—DC., Prodr., i. 729.—A. Juss., in 
Mém. Mus., xii. 492, t. 23, fig. 33.—Spacu, 
Suit. à Buffon, ii. 348,—B. H., Gen., 284, n, 
2.—Aa., Theor. Syst. Pl., t. 19, fig. 10.— Aruba 
Nees & Marr., in Nov. Act. Nat. Cwr., xi. 152, 
t. 19, 27, 29 (nec AUBL.), 
2 Sometimes slightly fleshy. 
3 Handsome, red, lilac, or sometimes bluish. 
4 Spee, ad 10. Wazp., Rep., i. 499; Ann, i. 
154; ii. 246; iv. 410; vii. 506. 
5 In Bull. Soc. Phil. (1823), 130; Pl. Rem. 
Bras., 147, t. 17; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 43.— 
DC., Prodr., i. 728.—A. Juss., in Mém. Mus., 
xii. 892, t. 23, fig. 3—Spacn, Suit, à Buffon, 
ii. 8347.—Enpu., Gen. n. 5988.—B. H., Gen., 
283, n. 1.—Terpnanthus Ners & Manrt., in 
Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 152, t. 19. 
