380 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS'. 



vided.— A lofty tree; leaves alternate impunctate; flowers* m 

 terminal ramose glomeruliferous racemes; bracteoles subfoliaceous 

 oblong-cuneate, caducous. (Trop. America.^) 



V. NAPOLBONE^. 



62. Napoleona Pal. Bbauv. -Flowers hermaplirodite regular; 

 receptacle turbinate, enclosing germen adnate within. Sepals 5, 

 marginally inserted, 3-angular, valvate. Petals 6, alternate, inserted 

 with calyx, connate in orbicular shortly 5-lobed corolla ; lobes longi- 

 tudinally multiplicate, valvate, denticulate at apex. Disk interior to 

 corolla duplex petaloid, consisting of 3 concentric crowns ; the exterior 

 composed of laciniee subulate-ligulate subfree or connate only at 

 base; the interior connate in multilobed tube inflexed at apex ; both 

 connate with base of corolla and androecium and faUing with them. 

 Stamens oftener 20 (" more rarely 25-co ")> i^ & alternipetalous 

 groups ; the stamens of each group generally 4, of which the 2 ex- 

 terior are fertile, the interior anantherous ; the filaments of all peta- 

 loid ligulate incurved; anthers of the exterior adnate introrse, 1-locu- 

 lar, 1-rimose. Germen inferior, 5-locular ; cells oppositipetalous;^ style 

 erect short thick, 5-gonal, at apex dilated-peltate, 6-angular, stigma- 

 tose along 5 furrows. Ovules in cells co , generally few (4), 2-seriate, 

 finally descending, with micropyle introrsely superior, or slightly as- 

 cending, with micropyle extrorsely inferior. Pruit baccate corticate, 

 crowned with calyx ; seeds few imbedded in pulp ; cotyledons of reni- 

 form embryo plano-convex fieshy ; radicle short retracted to hilum of 

 cotyledons.— Glabrous trees ; leaves alternate, entire or obscurely 

 sinuate, penninerved, epunctate ; flowers axillary, solitary or few 

 glomerulate; bracts under flower few, decussate-imbricate, larger fi-om 

 the lower to the higher, often on both sides (as the sepals and some- 

 times the leaves) bearing an elliptic gland sessile to margin. ( Trop. 

 west. Africa.) — See p. 331. 



63. Asteranthos DESP.—Plowers nearly of iVapoZeowa; receptacle 

 shorter. Calyx gamophyllous membranous, sinuate denticulate at 

 margin. Corolla widely rotate, oo -plicate, destitute of crown within. 

 Stamens oo , connate with corolla at ba se, oo -seriate ; filaments fili- 



lYeUow; strong-soentel &,-,. iii. im ; Mat Med Sras. 17--Berg, 



' According to earliest autKora 1 species, mucli Linnaa, xxvii. 460 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 478, 



noted, viz., S. exeelsa (oonceming wHch see p. t. 60, 61. 



33()>,note 2); according to Miers 2.— Mart. 



