398 NAT ORAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



buminous embryo thick flexuose ; radicle short superior. — Glabrous 

 or pubescent shrubs ; leaves alternate or fasciculate, simple or 

 pinnate, Hnear or oblong, thick coriaceous, entire or paucispinose ; 

 flowers ^ in axillary and terminal simple or 2-nate racemes ; pedicels 

 articulate at base.^ ( Warm Australia.^) 



12. Capura Blanco.* — Flowers polygamous regular ; sepals 4, 5, 

 equal, imbricated. Petals 4, 5, alternate, minute, articulate inflexed 

 on both sides at margin, or more rarely 0. Stamens 5-10, 

 interior to annular disk short ; anthers introrse included. Germen 

 (rudimentary in male flower) 3-4-locular ; style very short, after- 

 wards radiate- 3-4-lobed stigmatiferous ; ovule ia cells 1, ascendent. 

 Fruit 1-4-lobed * or oftener entire, 2-4-locular, coriaceous, indehis- 

 cent ; seeds arillate ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick fleshy, 

 unequal obliquely superposed ; radicle conical descendent. — Trees or 

 shrubs; leaves alternate imparl- or paripinnate; folioles sessile opposite 

 or alternate, often pellucid-punctate ; the lowest small stipuliform ; 

 rachis sometimes winged ; flowers in terminal and axillary little or 

 much ramified cymiferous racemes. {Ind. Arch. Malasia. ®) 



13. Gupania L.^ — Flowers regular polygamous-dioecious ; sepals 

 5 (or more rarely 3-6), free rather, concave suborbiculate wide im- 

 bricated or oftener {Matayla ^) rather short, or short, less strictly 



1 Small insignificant. Blighia K(en. in Ann. Sot. ii. 671, t. 16, 17. 



^ A genus -whose flowers are not unlike the Aakeaia Tuss. Fl. Ant. i. 66, t. 3. — Guioa Cav. 



preceding, it differs principally in habit {Oka) Icon. 49, t. 373. — Molinaa J. Qm. 245. — Lamk. 



and leaves often simple slightly evolute. III. t. 305. — Dirmreza Labill. Sert. Amtro- 



^ Spec. 2, 3. F. MuELL. M. Viet. i. 90; caUd. 51, t. 61.— Diplqpetalon Sprbno. Si/st. 



Fragm. i. 46. — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 469. — Cur. Post. 146. — DigonoearpusY-EiA^os. Fl. Flum. 



Walp. Ann. vii. 631. 152, iv. t. 14. — Trigonocarpus Vellos. loc. cit. 



* Fl. de Filip. 234 (nee L.).— B. H. Gen. 405, 153, t. 15. — Diotyoneura Bi. Mvmphia, iii. 163. 

 n. 44. — Otophora Bl. Siimphia, iii. 142. — Oto- 8 Auel. Guian. i. 331, t. 128. — Ephielis 



lepis TuEoz. Suit. Mosc. (1848), p. i. 612. Schree. Gen. 263. — Gelonivm Gjertn. Fruct. ii. 



^ In. NepheliomultijugoHoaK.s. (JFrma. Linn. 271, t. 139 (not EoxB.).— ZVna E(em. et ScH. 



Soe. xxiii. 164) which, according to authors, is a Syst. Veg. v. 414 (not Bl.). — ? Pedieellia Lour. 



species of Capura with 3-lobed ovarium. Fl. Gochinch. (ed. 1790), 665. — Matonia DC. 



^ Spec, about 8. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. Frodr. i. 618. — B. H. Gen. 399, 1000, n. 25. 



669 [Otophora). — Walp. Ann. vii. 629. Misehoearpus Bl. Bijdr. 238 ; Sumphia, iii. 166. 



'Plum. Gen. Amer. 49, t. 19.— L. Gen. a. —Zepidopetalum'Bi,.Stmphia,m. 171.— Arytera 



279.— J. Gen. 249.— G-jertn. Fruct. t. 177.— Bl. Rumphia, iii. 170.— Zachnopetahm Tvncz. 



Lamk. Diet. ii. 226 ; Suppl. ii. 417.— DO. Frodr. in Bull. Mosc. (1848), ii. 571.— ^golepis Tuecz. 



i. 612.— Cambess. M^in. Mus. xviii. 28, t. 3. — loe. cit. ii. 573. — ? Paranephelium Tbtsm. & 



Spaob, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 67. — Endl. Gen. n. Bdot. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.-Ind. xxviii. 177. 



6614.- B. H. Gen. 399, 999, n. 24.— Baker, Fl. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 609 {MiUea Mia. 



Maurit. 57. — Trigonis 3 A.CQ..Stirp. Amer. t. 102. Ann. Mus. Luigd.-Bat. iii. 88, t. 6). 

 ■ — Vonarana Auel. Guian. Suppl. 12, t. 374. — 



