103 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



usually 3, anterior, imbricated (2 posterior wantiag). Other 

 characters of Salvertia. Seeds sometimes outwardly gossypinous. 

 Glabrous, or tomentose, trees or shrubs ; leaves verticil' ate or more 

 usually opposite ; stipules small, subulate ; flowers^ in sub-simple or 

 more often ramified cymiferous racemes; pedicels 2-bracteolate. 

 (Trop. South America. ^) 



3. Qualea Atjbl.^ — riowers nearly of Vochysia (or Salvertia) ; 

 petal 1, anterior ungniculate, usually widely obcordate or obovoid.* 

 Stamens and gynseceum of Salvertiece \ germen incompletely or 

 completely 3, 4-locular ; ovules on each placenta oo, 2-seriate oblique, 

 oftener scarcely anatropous, produced above in ascending wing. 

 Capsule loculicidal, 3-valved ; columella usually ; seeds oo , 2- 

 seriate imbricated subascendent, long produced above in a wing. 

 Other characters of Salvertia — Eesinous trees; leaves opposite or 

 verticillate ; petiole 2 -glandular at base; flowers^ in lateral and 

 terminal racemes often ramified-compound. {Brazil and Guiana.'^) 



4 ? Calljsthene Mart. '^ — Flowers nearly of Qualea ; germen 

 cells 3, oo ovulate. Capsule ovoid, crustaceous or ligneous, some- 

 times sub-drupaceous ; endocarp separating from subcoriaceous 

 exocarp and septicidally,_or loeulicidally 3-6-valved; valves solute 

 from thickly 3 -agonal semiferous and persistent columella. Seeds oo , 

 2-seriate descendent, produced on both sides in a wing; embryo 

 and other characters of Qualea. — Eesinous trees; leaves sub-2- 

 stichous, ovate or oblong ; stipules minute ; flowers ^ axillary or 

 lateral, solitary pedunculate. {Brazil.^) 



' Large or rather large, beautiful yellow, stamens sometimes large, 2 ; both fertile or one 



fraoxant. more or leas petaloid. 



2 Spec, about 40. — Makt. et Zvcc Nov. Gen, ^ Yellow, pink or blue, rather large, beautiful ; 

 et Spec. i. 139, t. 83-92.— Pohl. PI. Bras. ii. 18, petal deciduous. 



t. 111-119. — Walp. JlJe;). ii. 69 ; Ann.ii.bi1. * Spec about 25Maet. iVo:i. Gen. et Sped, t, 



3 Gttian. i. 5, t. 1, 2.— A. S. H. in Mem. 77-81. — 'Bxicviii. Fl. Exot.t. IZ'i.—'WALV. Rep. 

 Mus. yi. 265. — DC. Prodi: iii. 28. — Endl. Gen. ii. {Schiiechia), 915 ; Ann. ii. 627. 



n. 6069.— B. H. Qen. 976, n. 2.-11. Bn. in ^ Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 123, t. 75, 76.— DC. 



Fayer Fam. Nat. 352.— Amphilochia Mart. Frodr. iii. 25. — ^Endl. Gen. u. 6067. — B. H. 



Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 127, t. 77. — DC. Frodr. iii. Gen. 976, n. 1. — H. Bn. in Fayer Fam. Nat. 351, 



2^.—Agardhia Spkeng. Syst. i. i (nee Cabr. — CaUistheniaiivTi.-ESG.Gen.n.2i. 



neoGn.). ' s Usually small or rather large. 



^ Spur short or in Q. ecalcaraia Mart. ^ Spec. 5, 6. 

 qua3 Schtiechia Endl. {Gen. n. 6070), with 



