8(i MATUBAL HlStOitif OF PLANlS. 



23. Crmnenaria Maet.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 Gouania); receptacle campanulate beyond adnata germen. Sepals 

 valvate. Petals cucullate, inserted at the base of the hoUo-ws 

 of calyx. Stamens enclosed by petals. Germen quite inferior, 

 2-3-locular; branches slender cylindrical erect (3-3-fld); style 

 dilated at stigmatose apex. Fruit inferior and crowned with, 

 remains or prominent cicatrice of perianth, produced in 2, 3 vertical 

 winged lobes; wings membranous veined (marginal as regards 

 cocci), 2-lamellate; cocci chartaceous obcordate, finally separate 

 from 3-partite columella and dehiscing within. Seed obovate ; 

 testa rather hard ; cotyledons of thinly albuminous embryo suborbi- 

 cular plano-convex fleshy ; radicle inferior very short. — Herbs or 

 annuals ; "^ root fibrous ; leaves alternate petiolate cordato-ovate 

 membranous, 3-nerved at base ; or oftener perennial ; rhizome 

 woody; annual branches thin reedy, terete or compressed; leaves 

 or very small scaly ; stipules very small linear ciliate ; flowers * in 

 axillary slightly ramose, more rarely racemose cymes, sometimes 

 few or solitary. {Trop. Brasil.i) 



24. Helinus E. Mey.^ — Flowers of Gouania; disk epigynous 

 rather flat. Fruit inferior, shortly obovoid exalate, areolate at 

 depressed apex, finally dry coriaceous ; cocci 3, crustaceous, finally 

 separate from central 3-partite columella and dehiscing within ; 

 seeds and other characters of Gouania (or Beissekia). — Scandent 

 shrubs, glabrous cirrhiferous or pubescent ; leaves alternate cordato- 

 ovate entire, slenderly petiolate; stipules small, deciduous; in- 

 florescence of Beissekia. [East Indies, South Africa, Abyssinia-^) 



25. Phylica L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely polyga- 

 mous; receptacle very concave, tubular or obconical or urceolate. 



1 Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 68, t. 160.— Ad. Bb. » Spec. 3. Ait. Sort. Kew. i. 266 {Mamnus). 

 Mhamn. 73.— Endl. Gen. n. 6748.— B. H. Gen, —A. Eich. Tent. FV. Abyss, i. 139, t. 31.— 

 385, n. 34.— H. Btr. Adansonia, xi. 290. Harv. and Sond. PI. Cap. i. 479.— Jaub. and 



2 In 1 spec. viz. C. decumiens Makt.— G. Spach, III. PI. Or. v. t. 472.— Waip. Ann. vii. 

 Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 44. 608. 



3 Small, white. 7 Gen. n. 266.-J. Gen. SSl—OiERTN. Fruct. 

 ' Spec.3, 4 (1 of which IS membranous-leaved; i. 114, t. 24.— Lamk. III. t. 121 .—Vom. Dict.y. 



root annual, in hahit very different from the 286; Suppl. iii. 400.— DC. Frodr. ii. 34.— An. 



rest, hut in no generic sense distinct). Eeiss. Bk. Phmnn. 68, t. 6, ii.— Spach, S«U. & Suffon, 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Ehamn, 112, t. 41. ii. 467,— Enm. Gen. n. 6738.— B. H. Gen. 380, ' 



6 In Herb. Drige (ex ENDL.ff^w. n. 6746).- n. 18.-H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 329.-Bakek 



B. H. Gen. 386, n. 36.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 644. PI. Maurit. 63. 



