330 NATURAL HISTOET OF PLANTS. 



nate entire often coriaceous ; flowers ia supra-axillary racemes, 

 lateral or oppositifolious, subumbulate or 1 -laterally glomeruliferous 

 or cymiferous. {Africa^ Asia and Trop. Oceania}) 



46. Kummeria Maet.^ — Flowers (nearly of Lasianthera) poly- 

 gamous; calyx short, 5-dentate. Petals longer, valvate, incurved 

 at apex, marked inside with, scarcely elevated lines. Stamens 5, 

 inserted below hypogynous disk ; filaments dilated, contracted at 

 apex above fascicle of hairs ; anthers introrse versatile. Germen 

 laterally surrounded by unequal disk, 1-locular, 2-ovulate; style 

 dilated into a thick discoid stigmatiferous apex. Fruit drupaceous 

 (nearly of Lasianthera), slightly arcuate; putamen longitudinally 

 sulcate and costate ; the dorsal costa thicker than the others, * 

 testa of conformed seed thin ; albumen fleshy longitudinally 2- 

 partite ; embryo apical very small. — A tree ; leaves alternate cori- 

 aceous entire rather scabrous ; flowers * in compound cymiferous 

 axillary racemes ; cymes contracted, finally after anthesis divaricate * 

 from elongate branches. (Guiana, Bor. BrasilJ^) 



47. Pleurisanthes, H. Bn. 7. — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Lasianthera), 4-5-merous ; calyx short gamo- 

 phylloid-dentate. Petals slightly longer, valvate, coadunate at 

 apex in spuriously gamopetalous corolla circumcissous at base. ^ 

 Stamens 4, 5 alternipetalous, soon deciduous ; filaments subulate 

 inserted below small annular disk ; anthers introrse ; cells discrete 

 adnate rimose, finally patent. Germen sessile (in male flower effete 

 or abortive) shortly conical, crowned at apex with shortly filiform 

 stigmatiferous papillae ; ovules 2 ; one often very small or dis- 

 appearing. Fruit? — A tree;^ leaves alternate petiolate ovate 

 subcoriaceous penninerved reticulate-veined ; flowers ^^ composite- 

 racemose very crowded on lateral sometimes leaf-bearing branches ; 



1 Spec, atout 10. Wight, Icon. t. 953, 954 of some TJmiellifera. 



[Gomphandra). — Thw. Emim. PI. Zeyl. 43 ^ Small, sutglabrous, resembling those of 



[Stemonurua), 44 [Platea), — Bl. Mm. Lugd.- JKap^jj^ of the same region and of some io«iff»- 

 £at. i. t. 45 {Stemonurun). — MiQ. Fl. Ind. Bat. 



i. p. i. 793 ; Suppl. i. 342, t. 2. — Seem. M. Vit. ^ A genus very near to Lasianthera. 



39, t. 12 {Stemmurus), — Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. ^ Spec. 1. K. brasiliensis Makt. loc, cit. — 



1. 353. — Walp, Ann. vii. 567. Discophora guianensis Miers, he. eit. 



2 Serb. Fl. Bras. (1837), n. 121Q.— Disco- ' Adansonia, xi. 200. 

 phord Miers in Ann. Nat. Sist. ser. 2, 118; ^ As in. Ampelide. 

 Contrib. i. 105, t. 20.— B. H. Gen. 362, n. 23.— » Aspect of Artocarpus. 

 H. Bn Adansonia, xi. 194. '" Very small greenish. 



3 Whence the fruit resembles the mericarp 



