XL. VOCHYSIACE^. 



1. SALVATEEIA SEEIES. 



■ To this series belongs Vochysia, which has given its name to the 

 family ; but it does not represent the most complete type, as it has 

 but three petals in a pentamerous flower, while Balvateria ^ (fig. 

 124-126), which we shall first study, has the same number of 



Salvateria convaUariaodora. 



Fig. 124. Flower (|) 



Fig. 12-3. Diagram. 



Fig. 1 26. Long. sect, of flower. 



petals as sepals. The flowers are hermaphrodite and irregular, and the 

 receptacle slightly concave. Upon the edges of the small cup which 

 constitutes it, are inserted five sepals, imbricated in a varied manner 

 in the bud, but generally quincuncially. Below the posterior sepal, 

 the receptacle dilates as in the Nasturtiums into a hollow free spur. '^ 

 The five petals, scarcely unequal, are imbricated in the bud like the 

 sepals with which they alternate. The androceum is formed at first 

 of five oppositipetalous stamens ; but generally one of them, the 

 anterior, alone becomes fertile, the two posterior disappearing com- 



1 A. S. H. in Mim. Mus. vi. 266 ; ix. 340. 

 —DC. Prodf. iii. 28.— Spach, Suit, a Bvffon, 

 iv. 324.— Endl. G.n. n. 6072.— B. H. Gen. 

 977, n. 5.— H. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 351. 



2 like that of the Nasturtiums, the flowers 

 may also become monstrous, the spur en- 

 larging, or diminishing, or. disappearing more 



or less completely j the perianth thus hecoming 

 apparently regular. In this case, there are often 

 two large fertile stamens, more rarely three, 

 one of which rather smaller, and the staminodes 

 are more developed than in the normal 

 flowers. 



