362 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
plici, apice truncato v. plus minus dilatato stigmatoso. Ovula in locu- 
lis © , placentæ verticali v. crasse squamiformi peltatæve (Æufristania), 
integræ v. plus minus 2-lobæ, inserta, horizontalia v. descendentia, recta, 
recurva v. reflexa. Capsula libera v. receptaculi tubo plus minus adnata, 
superne loculicida; valvis intus septatis, æ -spermis. Semina cuneata 
v. superne attenuata v. alato-dilatata; embryonis exalbuminosi recti 
cotyledonibus plano-convexis, radicula adscendente longioribus. —Arbo- 
res v. fratices glabri v. integumento vario; foliis alternis v. subverti- 
cillatis, rarius (Neriophyllum) oppositis, sæpius coriaceis ; floribus ‘ 
cymas axillares v. terminales plus minus ramosas, nune corymbiformes, 
dispositis, bracteatis. (Australia, N.-Caledonia, arch. Ind. ?) 
31. Metrosideros Banks . — Flores hermaphroditi ; receptaculo 
concavo, forma vario, nune subplano. Sepala 5, leviter imbricata v. val- 
vata, plus minus connata, nune inæquali-lacera v. calyptratim soluta 
(Pleurocalyptus *). Petala 5, alterna, imbricata. Stamina + , petalis lon- 
giora, libera v. sublibera ; Fes brevibus, versatilibus, Germen infe- 
rum, semi-superum v. supérum; loculis 3, completis v. incompletis. 
Ovalaæ , nunc pauca (Tepualiaÿ), v.A (Sarcynpia®) transversa v.adscen- 
dentia descendentiave, placentæ verticali v. capitatæ, clavatæ pellatæve 
(Xanthostemon"), transversæ +. obliquæ, integræ v. plus minus 2-lobæ in- 
serta. Fructus laris; hber v. receptaculo plus minusalte intusadnatus, 
superne loculicide +. nunc irregulariter dehiscens. Semina æ , sæpius 
adscendentia, imbricata, linearia v. hinc cuneata, rarius semi-orbiculala; 
embryonis exalbuminosi cotyledonibus planis, plano-convexis v. plicatis, 
radicula longioribus. — Arbores v. frutices, nune scandentes, glabri v. 
tomentosi ; foliis oppositis v. alternis, raro subverticillatis, penninerviis ; 
floribus * cymosis; cymis axillaribus v. terininalibus plus minus compo- 
1. Albis, luteis v. flavicantibus. ind,-bat., 1, p. 1, 399; in Journ. bot. néerl. 
2. Spec. ad 20 Boxpz., Ma/mais., t. 30. — For” 297. 
BENN., PL. jav. rar., 127,t. 27. — Mio., F1. R.et GR., in a Arch. me : V, 20, 
ind.-bat., Y, p. 1,397. — BENTH., FL. austral., t, 4 in wa se. ge F5, SEE, K 
Il, 261.—Br. et GR., in Ann. sc. nat., sér. 5, 5. GRISEB., as Bin . 31; in “a. 
IH, 130; III, 228; XIII, 383; in Nouv. Arch. Wiss. Gb, H., Gen., 710, n. . 
Mas. IV, 12, L 9 (Tristaniopsis). — Bot. TS sp. “Synrr pa 
Reg, t. 1839. — Bot. Mag., t. 1058 (Mela- 7. ne M n Hook. Kew Journ. ds 17. 
a pe Rep., I, 160, 927; V, 744 ES A, n. + — BENTH., in 
Ann., I, 621. ue mA. ,t. 1040. —? Draparnaudia “Most 
L uit. Fruct., 1, 170, t. 34 (part.). Rouz., in Mém. Acad. Lyon, X, 205 (ex 
—— LAMK, HE, t. #24 Po R., Dict., Suppl., — Fremya et GR >in nr Soc. bot. Fr. X: 
WE, 679. — DC., Prodr., “à 294, — SpacH, 374; in Ann. sc. nat., sér. 5, 11, 131; HI, 227; 
Suit. à Buffon, IN,138.—ENDL., Gen., n.6303 in Nouv. Arch. Mus., WW, 13, + 7. 
_. part.), — H. BN, in éd vf nat., 366. — 8. Sæpiu s speci iosis, luteis, aurantiacis v. lu- 
B. H., Gen., 740, n. 3 & — Novie Mo. FT. bris, Fi ns articulatis. 
