62 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
IT ASTRONIEÆ. 
47. Astronia BL. — Flores hermaphroditi ; receptaculo plus minus 
alte campanulato crassiusculo germen adnatum intus fovente et ultra 
in cupulan intus parce glandulosam producto. Calyx margini in- 
serlus, COnICUS, calyptriformis v. sæpius inæquali-lobus ruptusve. 
Petala 4, 5, cum calyce inserta, obtusa, torta. Stamina 8-12, cum 
perianthio inserta; filamentis brevibus crassiuseulis compressis, in 
alabastro incurvis; antheris breviter et latiuscule dolabriformibus; con- 
nectivo crasso compresso, basi breviter v. haud calcarato ; loculis 
introrsis (in alabastro ob antheram inflexam extrorsis), linearibus, 
9-rimosis. Germen inferum, 2-6-loculare, receptaculo intus adnatum 
et apice depressum v. concavum ibique antheras in alabastro fovens ; 
stylo columnari erecto, apice plus minus capitato stigmatoso. Ovula 
in loculis æ, anatropa, angusta; placentis angulo interno affixis, 
nunc Crassis v. oblongo-conicis, adscendentibus. Fructus capsularis 
receptaculo coriaceo demum inæquali-disrupto inclusus; nervis re- 
ceptaculi ramosis rigidis a parenchymate solutis et stellatim paten- 
tibus. Semina œ, adscendentia, lineari-elongata, utrinque longe an- 
gustata; raphe excurrente; embryonis parvi exalbuminosi carnosi 
radicula infera. — Arbores v. frutices, glabri v. indumento vario ; 
foliis oppositis petiolatis, integris coriaceis, 3-nerviis; floribus in cymas 
terminales composito-ramosas dispositis, sæpius ebracteatis. (Ma- 
laisia, ins. mar. Pacifici.) — Vid. p. 
48. Pternandra JACK. ! — Flores 4-meri; receptaculo hemi- 
sphærico concavo, extus glabro v. sæpius (Xibessia *) varie setoso, 
tubereulato v. aculeis rectis imbricatis, simplicibus glochidiatisve 
induto. Calyx gamophyllus, aut 4-lobus, aut inæquali-ruptus v. calyp- 
triformis plus minus longe conicus, cireumcissus. Petala 4, obtusa, 
acuta v. lanceolata, torta. Stamina 8, subæqualia (As/roniæ). Germen 
omnino inferum receptaculoque adnatum, vertice depressum, 4-locu- 
sel., V, t. 3 (Cycnopodium).— Grises., F1. Brit. LE Flora (1831), 524; | Rumphis I, 24, t. 8; 
W.-In d., 266 (C1 D pr à Enum. pl. c Se s. lugd.-bat., I, 5, fig. 1. — Apteuxis M 
Wright. 99 (Miconia). — Don, in Mem. Wer rh 1 r 072 
Soc., IV, a re — WaLr., Rep., I, 2. DC. Prodr., IL, 196 (1828). Ph qen a 
118; Ann., IV, 782. n. 6265. NAUD., loc. cit., XVIIE, 262. 
Mal. de. Il, App. 3(1820-1822).— Hook., Gen. bn 48h Tan est, 152.— he 
Comp. Bot. Mag., L'156 — . in Ann. sc. ira BL., Mus. Lugd.-bat., I, 6, — TRI, 
nat., sér. 3, XVIII, 260. — B. H., Gen., 771, est 153. — À amer in BL. a gite, 17 
n: 430. = Tat., Melast. 153. — be BE, 
