VOCHYSIAOE^. 



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surraoTinted above by a long membranous wing, and encloses under 

 its coats a much, developed embryo, with short superior radicle, and 

 wide not very thick cotyledons spirally convolute. At present only 

 one Salvertia ^ is known. It is a tree from Brazil with resinous 

 juice, thick branches, vertioillate, petiolate, simple leaves.^ The 



Callisthene minor. 



Fig. 133. Mower (^). 



Fig. 132. Floriferous branch (i). Fig. 134. Long. sect, of flower. 



flowers^ are disposed in ramified terminal racemes, composed of cymes, 

 sometimes uniparous at the apex. 



Vochysia (fig. 127-131), consisting of trees from tropical America, 

 has all the characters of Salvertia, but the sepals are very unequal 

 and the petals are, as we have seen, three in number, the two 

 posterior disappearing; or sometimes even the anterior petal 

 alone represents the corolla. The Vochysias are trees with opposite 

 or verticillate leaves, accompanied by small lateral stipules. 

 The inflorescence is in racemes of cymes more or less ramified. 

 Beside them are placed CalUsthene and Qualea, also natives of 



1 S. convallariaodora A. S. H. loe. cit. — 

 Mart, et Zucc. Kov. Gen. et Spec, i, 152, t. 93. 

 — ? S. fhyrsifiora Pohl, PI. Bras. ii. 15, t. 110. 

 WjM.p.i2«p., i, 69. 



2 Thick, coriaceous, ohoval, entire, penin- 

 nerved, exstipulate (f). 



' White or pink, large, heautiful, very- 

 fragrant. 



