198 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



scales. Anthers 2-locular, rimose ; exterior or all extrorse. Germen 

 3-locTilar ; cells 1-ovulate ; style erect, distinct, thickly 3-lobed, 

 stigmatiferous at apex ; lobes obcordate-ovate, reflexed, 2 -fid, stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Capsule 3 -cocoons; cocci 2-valved; seeds 

 albuminons smooth exarillate. — A tree ; indumentum simple ; leaves 

 alternate exstipulate petiolate entire penninerved ; flowers ^ axillary 

 to upper leaves or terminal, subsolitary or in few flowered (spurious ?) 

 racemes.^ ( Warm America, N. and S.^) 



40. Crotonogyne J. Mtjell.* — Flowers dioecious. Male calyx 

 gamophyllous, scarcely unequally broken, valvate. Petals 5-7, con- 

 cave, inwardly at base hirsute with glands ; prsefloration contorted. 

 Glands 5-7, glabrous thick, unequally fusiform, alternating with 

 petals. Stamens 3 times more numerous than petals, verticillate, 3- 

 serrate, 5-7 exterior evidently shorter opposite petals, same number 

 alternating with these larger ; and the same number quite interior 

 also opposite petals ; filaments connate at base only, afterwards free ; 

 anthers 2-locular, introrse, 2-rimose. Female calyx thick, 5-partite ; 

 lobes unequal furnished at margin with 2-6 verricose glands de- 

 pressed scutillate ; aestivation imbricate. Petals (male) 5-6 slightly 

 thicker, caducous ; prsefloration contorted. Disk hypogynous an- 

 nular membranous subentire. Germen 3-locular. Style erect 

 afterwards 3-partite ; lobes 4-partite, teeth subulate reflexed. Ovules 

 in each ceU solitary obturated ; micropyle extrorse superior. Cap- 

 •sules 3-coccous ; seed approaching arillate. — A shrub, scantily lepi- 

 dote-squamose ; leaves alternate petiolate penninerved reticulate-veined 

 above base patellate-glandular ; stipules 2 ; male flowers in axillary 

 interrupted spicate glomerules; female long pedicellate in few-flowered 

 (4-6) axillary racemes.^ {Trop. West Africa.^) 



41. Manniophyton J. Muell.^ — Flowers dioecious; receptacle 

 rather convex, Male calyx valvate, unequally 2-3-broken. Corolla 

 high gamopetalous urceolate, shortly 5-lobed. Glands 5, alterni- 

 petalous thick. Stamens co (12-20), filaments free unequal ; an- 



1 Purpuresoent whitish vUlose. habit, a speoieb. Crotonis coh. Etdropiis longe 



2 A genus with male flowers; recaUs some reoed., sed calyx maso. irreg. rumpendus et 



Bixacea. stam. ia alabastr. recta." (M. Aeq.) 



8 Spec. 1. G. nutans Eohr. loo. cit. « Spec. 1. C. Manniana M. Akg. he. cit. 



* In Flora (1864), 536 ; Prodr. 720. ^ In Flora (1864), 530; Prodr. 719," 

 ' "Oharact. fere omnes ut ia Crotone, nee 



