40 NATUBAL HISIORY OF PLANTS. 



or slightly imbricate, 3-angular. Germen half immersed in rather 

 thick, oftener 5-gonal disk and not confluent with it; cells 2, 

 2-ovulate ; ovules ascending ; a spurious septum more or less deve- 

 loped between the ovules in each cell (hence cells 4, 1-ovulate). 

 Berry subglobose (small) slightly fleshy ; seeds exarillate, externally 

 more or less triate or costate ; embryo small albuminous. — Unarmed 

 shrubs, generally glabrous; leaves alternate petiolate subovate 

 serrulate, sometimes glandular ; stipules minute, deciduous ; flowers^ 

 in slender axillary more or less compound cymiferous racemes. 

 {Both tropical Americas^ tropical Oceania.^) 



22? Frauenhofera Maet.^ — Flowers nearly of Perrottetia, 5- 

 merous; sepals and petals imbricate, germen 2-locular; ovules in 

 cells 2, ascending. Fruit * cylindrical subsiliquiform, conical at apex ; 

 pericarp fibrous coriaceous, 1-locular. Seed 1, suberect, embryo...? 

 — A small softly pubescent tree j leaves alternate ovate entire or ser- 

 rulate ; stipules very small deciduous ; flowers ^ in axillary and 

 terminal filiform glomeruliferous spikes, bracteolate. {BrasiV) 



23 ? Siphonodon Geifp.'^ — Rowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 rather thick cupular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals same in number, 

 alternate longer, erect open, imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, 

 slightly perigynous with perianth; filaments 1-adelphous at base, 

 complanate, incurved at free apex ; anthers basifixed shortly subsa- 

 gittate ; cells marginal oblique linear, subextrorsely rimose. Germen 

 immersed at base in hollow of receptacle and adnate to it ; cells oo ,^ 

 unequally pluriseriate ; ovules in each solitary, ascending ; style (?) 

 central (subgynobasically) inserted vertically intruding between the 

 germens, at apex obtuse or subemarginate and surrounded at base 

 with 00 ^ of unequal papillose squamules. Fruit drupaceous, sparsely 



' Minute, white or greenish. ■• From description and figure nearly of 



2 Spec. 6 (2 of which are Old World). A. Catlia (" 1 in. long, \ in. thick "), by which 



Gray, Amer. &pl. Exp. Bot.i. 290, t. 24.— Kaust. alone the genus ia distinguished from the other- 



Fl. Columb. ii. 47, t. 124. — Txjrcz. Bull. Mosc. wise closely allied Perrottetia. 



(1863), i. 605 {Theapht/llum).—MiQ.. Fl. Ind.- 5 yery small, according to figures, pale pink. 



Bat. i. p. ii. 691 {Garyospermum).—W. Muell. 6 gpec. 1. F. multiflora Maut.— Reiss. Mart. 



Fragm. v. 202 (Cari/osperimm).— 'Walt. Eep. i. Fl. Bras. Celastr. 32, t. 4, fig. 16.— Walp. Mep. 



639 ; Ann. iv. 427 ; vii. 581 (Caryospei-mum), 682. ii. 636. 



There is no valid distinction hetween Perrot- 1 Cak. Journ. of Nat. Eist. iv. 247, t. 14.— 



tetia and Caryosperma, whose cells are 2-otu- B. H. Gen. 370, 998, n. 38.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 



late ; the spurious septum often observed in the 629. — Asterogyne Wall. Kort. Cale. 



Perrottetia being produced between the seeds of * Very likely 5, " divided by spurious septa 



the same cell. The flower, except its altemi- between the ovules '' (Hook. p.). (?) 



petalous stamens, is quite rhamnaceous. 9 Stigmas cristate aecoiding to Hook. f. in 



'■' Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 86, t. 236. — ^Enbi. Icon. 

 Gen. n, 6GS5,— B. H. Gcr., 366, n. 25. 



