3 78 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or less elongate cupule adnate -within to bottom of corolla, above free 

 and tbere incurved or occasionally produced to a short ligule ; anthers 

 of all fertile, more or less incurved in the bud. Germen inferior, 

 3-6-locular ; ovules in cells oo , ascending. Fruit oblong cylindrical, 

 dehiscing by an apical often hemispherical circumscissile operculum. 

 Seeds few, inserted round a central column on incrassate subbasilar 

 sporophores, long-winged below. Embryo exalbuminous contortu- 

 plicate ; radicle very large cylindrical arcuately ascending ; cotyle- 

 dons broadly foliaceous contortuplicate incumbent. — Trees ; leaves 

 alternate, oftener serrate ; flowers in terminal ramose racemes ; bracts 

 and bracteoles small, caducous.' — {Trop. America}) 



68. Couratari Atjbl.^ — Flowers of Cariniana, oftener 6-merous ; 

 ligule of andrcEcium elongate, loaded externally at apex with crowded 

 stamens sterile (?) but here and there provided with small (well de- 

 fined) anthers. Fruit, etc., of Gariniana; operculum nearly equal to 

 pericarp. Seeds circumalate ; embryo exalbuminous contortuplicate. 

 — Lofty trees ; leaves alternate entire ; inflorescence, etc., of Gari- 

 niana.'^ (Trop. America.^) 



59. Couroupita Atjbl.^ — Flowers nearly of Gouratari, 6-merous ; 

 ligule of andrcecium elongate large incurved fleshy subpetaloid cucul- 

 late. Stamens nearly all either subbasilar, or fertile at top of ligule; 

 anthers of all basifixed erect, longitudinally 2-rimose. Germen large 

 partly superior, 5-8-locular ; style short thick ; cells oo -ovulate. 

 Fruit subglobose coriaceous-woody, indehiscent, ring-marked with 

 scar of marginal receptacle, umbilicate at apex. Seeds oo , imbedded 

 in pulp, oxalate; embryo, etc., of Gouratari, — Trees ; leaves alternate, 



' Perhaps Ijetter a sect, of Courataris, differing 172, 301, t. 36 B), of which one Amazonian spe- 



only in the ligule heing shorter, the stamens all oies is described (C anomala Miers) as having 



fertile and the fruit only sometimes alate. a 6-merous flower, unknown to us, a nerved 



2 Spec. 7 (exMiERs). Raddi, Mem. Soe. Ital. helmet-shaped ligula, produced at apex to an 

 Moden. Phys. xviii. 403.— Mart. Flora, xx. 127 incurved subulate lamina, allied to this P 

 (CowmiaWs).— Bekg, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 610, » Spec, about 7 (ex Mieks). Velloz. Fl. Fhm. 

 t. 78-82 {Courataris). v. t. 86 {Leeythis) .—QiMSESS. A. S.S. Fl. Bras. 



3 Cfuian. ii. 723, t. 290. — A Rich. Ann, Sc. Nat. Mer. ii. 274, t. 159. 



ser. 1, i. 321, t. 21.— Foil. Mem. Mus. xiii. 159, « Guian. 708, t. 282.— PoiT. M^m. Mus. xiii. 



t. 8.— DC. PjWr.iii. 294.— Spach, A'art. a5!(/o», 152, t. 78.— DC. Prodr. iii. 293.— Ivbt. Diet. 



iv. 198.— Endl. Gen. n. 6331.— H. Bn. Payer ScNat. Atl.t. 227-229. —SsAca, Suit, d Buffon, 



Fam. Nat. 370.— B. H. Gen. 722, n. 66 (part).— iv. 19'6.— Endl. Gen. n. 6334.— H. Bn. Payer 



Miers, Trans. Linn. aoc. xxx. 168, 279, t. 35 B, Fam. Nat. 370.— B. H. Gen. 722, n. 67.— Miers, 



62. — Zecythopsis Sche. Denleschr. Acad. Munch. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 139, 188, t. 33 B. — Pon- 



^m. 2il.—BsRB, Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 503, i. 1, toppidana Scop. Introd. n. M9 . — Flscholtzia 



75, 76.— B. H. Gen. 723, n. 68. Rich, (not W.). 

 ■■ Is Csrcophora Miers [Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx, 



