400 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



15. Crossonephelis H. Bn. — Flowers monoecioiis regular apeta- 

 lous ; male sepals 4, rather thicker, scarcely connate at base, valvate. 

 Stamens 4, opposite sepals and interior to cnpnlar 4-lobeddisk ; disk 

 lobes alternating -with sepals : filaments inserted below small rudi- 

 ment of gynseceum, arched subulate and at base more or less lodged 

 in furrows of interposed disk lobes ; anthers introrse ovate, 2- 

 rimose. Female calyx valvate deeply 4-lobed. Disk thick cupu- 

 lar, finally strictly reflexed on calyx and representing a short 

 fleshy gamopetalous corolla. Staminodes 4, oppositisepalous, interior 

 to disk rather thicker pointed. Germen free compressed-sub-2- 

 dymous, 2-locular ; style branches erect contiguous coadunate, 

 divaricate at dilated oblong stigmatiferous apex. Ovules in cells 

 solitary, ascendent from bottom of internal angle ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit ... ? — A glabrous tree ; habit of Sapindus ; leaves 

 alternate crowded at summit of branches paripumate ; folioles sub- 

 sessile opposite, 2-3-jugate penniveined glabrous; flowers small 

 crowded in terminal spiciform scantily ramified cymiferous or glo- 

 meruliferous clusters ; superior glomerules male ; female inferior 

 sometimes androgynous.' {Nos§i-be.~) 



16. Talisia Aubl.^ — Flowers regular polygamous-dioecious ; 

 sepals 5, much (or sometimes scarcely) imbricate. Petals generally 

 same in number alternate, imbricated, inwardly enlarged by entire 

 or 2-lobed densely and rigidly barbate plates. Stamens 8 (or more 

 rarely 5-7), interior to regular annular subentire or lobed disk ; 

 filaments free, usually glabrous ; anthers introrse apiculate, 2-rimose. 

 Germen (in male flower rudimentary) 3-lobed, 3-locular ; ovule in 

 cells 1, ascendent ; micropyle extrorse inferior ; style erect, apex 

 stigmatiferous 3-lobed. Fruit ovoid acuminate dry, indehiscent, 

 sometimes pubescent, 1-spermous ; testa of exarillate ascendent 

 seed sometimes rugose without ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous 

 embryo fleshy hemispherical superposed ; radicle short descendent 

 accumbent. — Glabrous or pilose trees or small trees ; leaves alternate 

 abruptly pinnate ; folioles entire coriaceous ; flowers crowded in 

 ramifled cymiferous racemes. [South-East trop. America). 



' A genua apparently allied to Enocoelewm, — DC. Prodr. i. 609. — Oameess. Mint, Mas. 



differing by apetaloua 4-merou9 iaostemonous, xviii. 29. — Endl. Q-m. n. fi616. — B. H. O-en. 



flowers oruoiately 4-lol)ed disk sometimes by 401, n. 31. — ? Aclododea E. et Pat. Frodi: 133, 



nature of 2-merou3 gyn^oeum. t. 29 (ex Endl.). — Gomatoglossum Kakst. et Te. 



2 Spec. 1. C. Fenillei'B., Bn. Adansonia, xi. in Linnaa, xxviii. 436. 



245. ■* Spec, ad 16. Te. et Pl. in Ann. So. Nat. 



3 Guian. i. 349, t. 136 (nee Benth.). — Lamk. ser. 4, xyiii. 369.— Walp, Ann, vii. 628, 

 III, t. 310,— PoiE. Diet. vii. 559 ; Suppl. v. 281. 



