LORANTHACÉES. 449 
GENERA 
I. OLACEÆ. 
1. Heiïsteria L. — Flores hermaphroditi regulares; receptaculo 
* convexo, Calyx minutus, 5, 6-lobus v. dentatus, fructifer plus minus 
accrelus, nune maximus, patens, integer, sinuatus v. lobatus. Petala 
9, 6, intus plus minus villosa, valvata. Stamina 5, alternipetala v. 
sæpius 10, 2-seriata, quorum opposipetala 5, minora ; filamentis gra- 
cilibus v. complanatis; antheris parvis subdidymis, introrsum rimo- 
sis. Germen superum, apice 1-loculare, plus minus alte septatum; 
ovulis 3, e summa placenta libera intra loculos spurios descendenti- 
bus; raphe (spuria?) dorsali. Stylus brevis conicus, apice stigmatoso 
capitellato-3-lobus. Fructus drupaceus, calyci impositus v. inclusus ; 
putamine crustaceo. Semen 1, spurie erectum; albumine carnoso; 
embryone intra apicem parvo; cotyledonibus brevibus foliaceis; radi- 
cula supera crassa. — Arbores v. frutices glabri; foliis alternis 
integris coriaceis ; floribus in cymas v. glomerulos axillares dispositis. 
(America trop., Africa trop. occid.) — Vid. p. 408 
2. Minquartia AUBL.!— Flores (fere Heisteriæ) 4, 5-meri; calyce 
(haud accrescente?) brevi dentato. Petala 4, 5, 3-angularia, valvata. 
Stamina 15, quorum 10, per paria oppositipetala ; 5 autem alternan- 
tia et filamenti ope petala contigua 2 coadunantia (nunc ob stamina 
Oppositipetala solitaria androcæum 10-merum). Antheræ basifixæ 
suborbiculares, sublateraliter rimosæ. Germen superum, basi cum 
disco crassissimo continuum; stylo brevi, apice capitellato 3, 4-lobu- 
lato, Ovula 3, 4, in loculis fere completis descendentia; apice solo 
1. Guian., 11, Suppl, 4,t. 370 (part.). — H.  nia M. aRG., in DC. Prodr., XV, Il, 227 (Eu- 
Bx, in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par., 585. — Secreta- phorbiaceæ). 
