HYPEBICACEjE. 



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foliage, with more numerous but generally smaller flowers ; i about a 

 dozen species ^ 'have been described.' 



The name of Gratoxylece has been given to a small group of plants 

 belonging to this family, characterized chiefly by their pericarp and 

 seeds. The former is capsular, loculicidal, and opens in five pannels, 



Sypericiim [Eremanthe) cali/eimm,. 



Fig. 344. Mower. Pig. 345. Long. sect, of flower (|). 



and these sometimes divided into two halves at the partitions which 

 separate. The seeds are ascending and surmounted by a vertical 

 wing; the cotyledons of the contained embryo are generally .longer 

 than the radicle. The group consists of tropical trees and shrubs of the 

 old world, with a yellow juice, opposite leaves, covered with glandular 

 punctuations, pentamerous flowers, with triadelphous stamens. Cra- 

 toxylon * is Asiatic ; in each ovarian cell are four or more ovules in 

 two vertical series.^ A dozen species ® have been described. Elicea 

 articulata,'^ a shrub of Madagascar, with terminal cymes, has only 



^ The sepals and petals are striated with, black. 

 The anthers are primarily -introrse. 



2 L. Amcen. Acad. viii. 33 {Hypericum). — 

 Gdill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. Tent. i. 107, t. 23 

 (Vismia). — ^HoOK. B. Niger, 241, t. 21. — Oliv. 

 Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 158.— Walp. Sep. i. 391 ; Ann. 

 i. 128 ; ii. 189. 



3 Here is placed, on account of the drupaceous 

 character of its fruit, but only provisionally re- 

 tained by us, Endodesmia calophylloides, Benth. 

 {Gen. 166, n. 5 ; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. \. 157), a 

 shrub of the Gaboon with opposite veined leaves 

 like those of Calophyllum, and quite exceptional 

 in this group by its very numerous stamens, in- 

 separable within from a pentagonal tube (and 

 consequently monadelphous), and especially by 

 its unilocular ovary which encloses only a single 

 descending seed. The place of this genus is 

 perhaps rather among^ the Clusiacece ; indeed it 



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much resembles Calophyllum. 



* Bl. Bijdr. 143. — Spaoh, Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 2, 

 T. 352.— Bndl. Gen. n. 6472.— B. H. Gen. 166, 

 n. 4. — Sornschuehia Bi. Gat. Sort, Buitenz. (ex 

 Endl.) . — Ancistrolobus Spaoh, loc. cit. t. 6 B ; 

 Suit. A Buffon, v. 360.— Endl. Gen. n. 6470.— 

 Tridesmis Spach, Ann. So. Nat. ser. 2, v. 351, t, 

 6A. 



' They are more numerous in Trideamis, which 

 is also distinguished by a scale at the base of 

 the petals ; a character of very little importance. 



« MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 615 ; Suppl. 194. 

 — Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 15, t. 5. — Korth. 

 Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. t. 36, 37 (Tridesmis).— 

 Walp. Sep. i. 391 ; Ann. iv. 362 ; vii. 333. 



' Camebss. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, xx. 400, t. 13. 

 —Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, v. 361. — Endl. 

 Gen. n. 6469.— B. H. Gen. 166, n. 3.— Walp. 

 Sep. i. 391. — Lanigerostemma Chapel, herb. 



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