90 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



comose. Suberect or scandent shrubs {Bredemeyera\ or oftener sufiru- 

 tesoent herbs erect or volubile (Uucomesperma); leaves alternate, 

 usually small {Eucomesperma) or orate, oblong, wide, subcoriaceous 

 penninerved (5ret?ej?2ej/era); flowers in simple or ramified racemes. 

 {Trop. America. \_Bredemei/era ^1, Justralia.^) 



7. Securidaca L.^ — Flowers nearly of Folygala ; sepals 2, very 

 large, wingshaped subpetaloid. Petals of Poly gala ; the lateral often 

 joined to the keel. Stamens 8 (of Polygala). .Germen 2-locular ; 

 one cell often very small, empty ; the other 1-ovulate. Fruit inde- 

 hiscent, coriaceous or ligneous, often cristate at base, at apex pro- 

 duced in a wing, elongated rarely short ( Corytholobium *), sometimes 

 much dilated above (Xojoto^y&^) often narrow at base (samaroid) ; 

 seed 1, exarillate, exalbuminous ; cotyledons of straight embryo, 

 thick-fleshy; radicle very short, retracted between them. — Shrubs 

 often scandent ; leaves alternate, usually entire, 2-glandular ; flowers 

 in terminal and axillary racemes, simple or compound, sometimes 

 short, rarely fasciculate-2-chotomous {Corytholohium). [All warm 

 regions {except Australia.^) 



8. Carpolobia G. Don.''— Flowers nearly of Polygala; lateral 

 sepals larger. Petals 5, connate in a corolla cut at back ; the anterior 

 carinate, concave-galeate, entire or shortly cristate at apex. Stamens 5, 

 connate at base in a sheath cut at back, and outwardly adnate to 

 corolla ; antherless filaments sometimes 1-3 ; anthers dehiscing 

 obliquely inwards. Germen thickly stipitate, 3-locular. Other 

 characters of Polygala. Fruit fleshy, subglobose ; seeds 1-3, exaril- 



1 Spec, about 10, A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. ii. 93. 



t. 90, 91.— Pospp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et. Spec. <■ Hochst. in Flora (1842), 229.-4. EicH.' 



iii. t. 273 {CaUcoma).—T-R. et. Pl. in Ann. Se. Fl. Abyss. Tent. i. 39, t. 10. 



Nat. s^r. 4, xvii. 133 (Ca^acoma).- Hassk. in « jAca. Amer. t. 183.— Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. 



Aim. Mas. Lujd.-Mctt. i. 187.— Walp. Sep. i. t. 22.— A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 67, t. 96. 



213; V. 614. Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 29; Cat.' PI. Cub. 



2 Spec, about 20 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 20.— 14.— Hassk. in Mas. Lugd.-Bat. i. 190.— Hook. 

 P. MuELL. Fl. Vict. t. 8.— Benth. Fl. Amtral. p. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 207.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 i. 141.— Walp. ^»»(. ii. 82; vii. 251. i. 134.— Benth. Fl. Songhong. 45.— Mia. Fl. 



3 Gen. n. 852.— J. Gen. 366.— Pom. Diet. Tiii. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 128 {Lophostylis).—T:-s.. et Pl. 

 50 ; Suppl. V. 124.— Lamk. III. t. 699.— DC. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, xvii. 134.— Walp. Rep. 

 Prodr. i. 340.— A. S. H. et MoQ. in Mem. JUus. i. 246 (part.) ; v. 67 ; Ann. i. 73 ; ii. 86 j iv.' 240 '; 

 xvii. 334, t. 31 ; xix. 335. — Stack, Suit, d Buffon, vii. 253. 



vii. 148.— Endl. Gen. a. 5653.— B. H. Gen. 138, ? Gen. Syst. i. 370 (part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 



974, n. 9. — Rodichiedia MiQ. in Limicea, xviii. 5655 ; Suppl, iii. 96.— B. H. Qen 139 974 



685. n. 11. ■•••.< 



* Makt. ex Benth. in Aim. Mus. Vitidob. 



