LINAGES. 



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and an axile embryo 'with, plano-convex cotyledons and superior 

 radicle. Erythroxylon, of wMoli some fifty species ^ are known, con- 

 sists of shrubs or bush.es from all warm regions. The leaves are 

 alternate, entire, penniuerved,^ petiolate, accompanied by intrapetiolar 



Mryfhroxylon Coca. 



Fig. 85. Audioceum and gynseceum. 



Fig. 87. Fruit. 



Fig. 86. Gynasceum. 



stipules. The flowers are solitary or united in small bunches of cymes 

 iu the axils of the leaves or the bracts which upon some branches 

 take their place. 



Beside Erythroxylon has been placed Aneulophus Africana^ which 

 with nearly the same perianth has petals longer and more reflexed, 

 traversed withia upon the mid-luie by a prominent rib, a monadelphous 

 diplostemonous androceum, and an ovary with three or four biovu- 

 late cells surmounted by a like number of distinct styles. It is a 

 glabrous shrub having opposite leaves with intrapetiolar . connate 

 stipules and flowers iu axillary cymes; 



HOUMIRI SEEIES. 



Houmiri* (fig. 88-97) has regular hermaphrodite flowers organised 

 nearly like those of Ixonanthes. The convex receptacle bears a 



1 Oav. Mas. viii. 399.— H. B. K. Nov. &en. et 

 Spec. T. 175, t. 433.— A. S. H. Fl. Us. Brass, t. 

 69 ; Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. t. 102, 103.— Deless. Io. 

 Set. iii. t. 28. — Wight et Akn. Prodr. i. 106. — 

 EoxB. Bl. Coromand. t. 88.— Wight, III. t. 48 ; 

 Icon. t. 97.— A Rich. Fl. Cui. t. 27.— Gkiseb. 

 Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 113.— Habv. et Sond.JZ. Cap. 

 i. 233.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 273.— Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, i. 283.— Hook, in Bot. Mag. Comp. 

 ii. t. 21.— Walp. Bep. i. 403 ; ii. 842 ; Am. ii. 

 195 ; vii. 463. 



2 Often marked within by a surface of a par- 



ticular colour limited by two curved Unes, cou- 

 caye on the side of the midrib, and depending 

 on the sestiyation of the limb as in certain 

 species of Temstrcemiaeece, 



3 Benth. Gen. 244, 987, n. 8.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. 274. — ? ? Caucanthus Foksk. Fl. JEg.- 

 Arab. 91 (ex Benth.). 



^AuBL. Guian. i. 564, t. 225.— H. BN.'in 

 Adansonia x. 368. — Bmniria J. Gen. 435. — DO. 

 Prodr. i. 619. — Mumirium Mart. Nov. Gen. et 

 Spec. ii. 142, t. 198, 199.— Bndl. Gen.n. 5486.— 

 B. H. Gen. 247, n. 2.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 



