458 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



8, valvate; accessory teeth or scarcely perceptible. Petals 8. 

 Stamens 24, spuriously 1-seriate; filaments inserted at bottom of 

 receptacular tube above margin of thin disk ; anthers curved versa- 

 tile. Germen incompletely l-locular ; placentas basilar, so -ovulate. 

 Capsule enclosed in widened tubular or ventricose receptacle, finally 

 sub-1-locular, 2-valvate, polyspermous. — A branched tree ; ^ leaves 

 opposite entire, rather scabrous on both sides ; flowers in loose com- 

 pound oppositely-branched racemes ; flower? ^ surrounded by 2, large, 

 widely-rotundate concave bracteoles enclosing the bud.^ {North 

 Brazil.^) 



18 ? Diplusodon Pohl.® — Flowers nearly of Lafoensia, 6-merous; 

 receptacle subcampanulate. Sepals 6, 3-angular, valyate ; accessory 

 teeth same in number alternate subulate (or sometimes very small). 

 Petals 6, corrugately imbricate. Stamens 12-qo , pluriseriate, in- 

 serted at or below middle of receptacle ; filaments slender subulate ; 

 anthers arcuate or hippocrepiform. Germen enclosed by receptacle ; 

 cells 3, very imperfect ; placentas basilar (of Lafoensia), oo -ovulate. 

 Capsule enclosed by receptacle, loculicidally 2-valvate. Seeds oo , 

 erect, imbricate; testa alate; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 auriculate at base ; radicle short inferior. — Shrubs or undershrubs, 

 sometimes handsome; leaves opposite or verticillate, subsessile 

 entire, 3-oo -costate; flowers^ axillary solitary or terminal and com- 

 pound ramose, 3-chotomous ; bracteoles or 2. (Brazil, Antilles."^) 



II. CEYPTERONIE^. 



19. Crypteronia Bl. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious apetalous. 

 Male flower : receptacle cupuliform. Sepals 4, 6, 3-angular and 

 stamens as many alternate, perigynously inserted at margin ; fila- 

 ments incurved in bud, finally straight exserted ; anthers basifixed 

 subdidymous, at apex introraely or sublaterally rimose ; connective 



1 " Hatit of Lagerstramia.'' Verhandl. der Bot. Ver. d. Prov. Brandetii. (1874) 



2 Purpl?, Bhowy. 10, 23.— Diplodon Spreng. Gen. n. 1963. — 

 = Representing a spurious calyx. Friedlandia Cham, et Schlchtl, Linnaa, ii. 348. 

 •> Spec. 1. P.florida Pohl, loc. cit. —Bubyaa DC. Diss. ined. (1827). 



» Flora (1827) 150 ; PL Bras. Ic. 82, t. 66-81. « White, pink or yellow. 



—DC. Prodr. iii. 94 a.— Spach, Suit a Buffon, 7 Spec. 30-40. A. S.-H. Fl. Bras. Mer. iii. 143, 



iv. 430.— Endl. Gen. n. 6161. — B. H. Gen. 781, t. 188, 189.— Pcepp. et Endl. ^^ov. Gen. et Sp. 



Ii. 16. — H. Bn-. Payei- Fam. Nat. 355.— Kojhne, ii. 66, t. 192,— W alp. Rep. ii. 112 ; v. 675. 



