492 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
ramified cymiferous bracteate racemes ; pedicels bracteolate (Trop. 
and Subtrop. Cont. and Ins. America). See p. 403. 
72. Stauranthus Linsm.'—Flowers polygamous (?) ; calyx short, 
4- or more rarely 5-dentate, persistent; teeth unequal acute. 
Petals same in number ; alternate much longer rather thick valvate, 
or inflexed slightly imbricated at margin. Stamens equal in 
number to petals and alternate, filaments inserted below base’ of 
slightly glandular germen, free; anthers small introrse 2-rimose 
(sometimes effete). Germen free, l-locular; style very short after- 
wards dilated in subsessile wide discoid unequally 4—5-lobed stigma- 
tiferous head; ovule solitary descending, incompletely anatropous, 
more or less laterally inserted ; micropyle extrorse superior. Fruit 
subbaceate oliviform ; sarcocarp replete with oily glands; ‘“ seed with 
wide hilum laterally appended to cells; testa coriaceous; embryo 
exalbuminous ; cotyledons oblong amygdaloid; radicle superior.’— 
An evergreen glabrous tree; leaves alternate petiolate, 1-foliolate ; 
foliole entire elliptical-lanceolate penninerved integerrimus coriaceous 
pellucid-punctuate ; flowers’ in axillary racemes ; pedicels articulate 
at base, with small or sometimes foliaceous bracts; bractlets 
2 lateral minute glanduliform* (Mezico’). 
73. Teclea Drx.’—Flowers diæcious, 4, 5-merous. Calyx high 
gamosepalous campanulate, slightly dentate or crenate at apex, 
imbricated. Petals much longer, slightly imbricated. Stamens 
alternipetalous, I-seriate (in female flower sterile shorter) ; filaments 
free; anthers oblong introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flowers 
conical-subulate sterile), glandular thickened 
style short, afterwards dilated in wide peltate 
matiferous head; ovules 2, parietally inserted 
descending ; micropyle extrorse 
at base, 1-locular; 
obtusely lobed stig- 
in cells, collaterally 
blocked by shortly 
obconical obturator. Fruit drupaceous glandular-punctuate ; puta- 
men pergamentaceous, l-spermous. Seed descending exalbuminous ; 
superior, 

1 Nov. Pl, Mex. Dec. (in Vidensk. Meddel. 
(1853), 91).—B. H., Gen., 303, n. 72. 
more allied to Zecleæ than to the legitimate 
Toddalias. 
2 Small, whitish, or virescent. 
3 A genus doubtfully placed among the 
Aurantiee, “ potiusque forsan ad Toddalieas re- 
ferendum” (B. H.), nevertheless corresponding 
in many respects with Amyris, and much 
4 Spee. 1. S. perforatus LIEBM., loc. cit.— 
WALP., Ann., iv. 428. 
5 In Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 2, xx. 90 (1843).— 
H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 320.—Aspidostigma 
Hocusr., in Flora (1844), 18. 
