284 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



compressed (Gatappa '), 2-7-alate ; wings tMck, sometimes sinuate 

 or incised (Bmnatuella) thick coriaceous or widely membranous ; 

 exocarp thin or more rarely thick, fleshy or coriaceous; putamen 

 coriaceous or osseous, 1-spermous, straight, curved or much recurved ^ 

 {Gonocarpus^'). Seed ovoid or elongate, terete or angular ; coat thin; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo convolute. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate or more rarely opposite and 2-glandular at base 

 (Ghuncoa,* Pentaptera^), often collected at summit of twigs, sessile 

 or oftener petiolate, generally entire, sometimes pellucid or dark- 

 spotted ; flowers ^ spicate or more rarely racemose ; spikes simple or 

 more or less ramose, elongate, loose or in short capitules ; or some- 

 times (Anogeissus, Gonocarpus, Bamatuella) densely capitate. (All 

 troy. regionsJ) See p. 267. 



II? NYSSE^. 

 9. Nyssa L. — ¥lowers polygamo-dioecious ; receptacle of males 

 shortly cupular or subplane. Calyx small, very small or subnil ; 

 teeth 5-00 . Petals 5-oo , imbricate. Stamens 5-18, or oo , inserted 

 with perianth around thick pulvinulate disk entire or crenate or 

 lobed, glabrous smooth above or produced to a central cone (rudiment 

 of gynsecium ?) ; filaments free ; anthers sub-2-dymous ; cells 

 laterally or introrsely rimose. Keceptacle of female or. hermaphrodite 

 flower tubular, urceolate or subcampanulate, enclosing adnate 

 germen ; calyx as in males. Petals small or 0. Rudimentary 

 stamens or few anantherous or with effete anthers. Germen 

 inferior, 1-locxilar (or very rarely 2-locular ; dissepirnents perfect or 



1 G^BTN. Fruct. ii. 206, t. 12' ; iii. 207, t. or more rarely red, pale violet or purplish, 

 217. — Adamaram Rheede, ex Adass. Tarn, des sometimes scented. 



Fl. ii. iio.— Tanibouca Aubl. Guian. 448, 1. 178. ' Spec. 100. Jaoq. St. Am. t. 52 {Conoearpm). 



2 Fruit in Gonocarpus and others imhricate in — Wight and Aen. Prodr. i. 312. — Wight, III. 

 a dense cone. t. 91 ; Icon. t. 172. — A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 



3 G^iERTN. Fntct. ii. 470, t. 177 ; iii. 205, t. 239, 1. 128.— Guillem. et Perr. Fl. Sen. Teut.i. 

 216.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 96; III. t. 126.— DC. 276, t. 63, 64; 278 [Gonocarpus), 279, t. 65 

 Frodr. iii. 16 (part).— Spaoh, Suit. aFuffon, iv. {Anogeissus). — Tui.. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 90. 

 303.— Endl. Gen. n. 6081.— B. H. Gen. 686, u. 3. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 276.— Harv. and 

 — Sudbeckia Abans. Fam. des PL ii. 80 (not L.). Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 608.— Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 



■• Pat. ex J. Gen. 76.— Poir. Diet. Suppl. ii. 496.— Thw. Fnum. Fl. Zeyl. 103.— Eichl. Mart. 



258.— Endl. Gen. n. 601 9. ~ Gimbernatia U. et Fl. Bras. Gombret. 81, t 2S,2i, 33, 3i; 94, t. 33, 



Pav. Prodr. 138, t. 36.— ? Chicarrotiia A. Bics.. i. {Bucida) ; 95, t. 25 [Buchmavia) ; 99, t. 35 



Fl. Gub. 529, t. i3.— Vieentia Allem. Biss. de ii. {Bamatuella) ; 100, t. 35, ii. {Gonocarpus). — 



FicOTiia acMOTiwato Eio Janeiro (1844). — Walp. Laws. Fl. Trap. Afr. ii. 415, 417 {Gonocarpus, 



Ann.iii. 934. — Eichl. Mart. Fl. Bras. Gombret- Anogeissus). — Bot. Mag. t. 3004. — ^Walp. Bep. 



92, t. 3% fig. 15 (fl. 4-merous). ii. 60, 63 {Anogeissus) ; Ann. i. 289 ; ii. 524 ; iv. 



» EoxB. Fl. Iiid. ii. 437.— Endl. Gen. n. 6077. ei2.—Groton Benzoe L. Mantiss. 297 (DC. Prodr. 



!> Small or moderate-sized, greenish, whitish iii. 11). 



