SAPINBAOE^. 417 



sepals 4» deeuss9,te-imbricate ; the two exterior minute ; tlie interior 

 much larger and ■wi4ely concave. Petals 4, similar in pairs, lined 

 vithuj by a thick petaloid cristate squamule appendiculate at apex. 

 Pisk exoentric dilated before the smaller petals into two large glands, 

 St3,mens 8, exoentric; filaments more or less 2-adelphous at base ; 

 anthers introrse. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) exoentric, 

 S-locular ; style stigmatose at apex 3 -fid ; OTules solitary ascendent. 

 Capsule subglobose, externally rough with stiff subulate spines, 

 septicidally 3-valvate ; seed (large) arillate exalbuminous.^ — Scan- 

 dent shrubs ; leaves alternate, 1-3-foliolate ; folioles entire cuspid 

 reticulate glabrous ; flowers in remotely cymiferous racemes. [Tro- 

 pical South America.^) 



52. Valenzuelia Bert.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of Paul- 

 Knia) slightly irregular ; sepals 6, imbricate. Petals 5, or oftener 4, 

 unequal, imbricate, lined within by a more or less developed squa- 

 mule appendiculately 2-lobed or 2-fid at apex. Disk unequally 5- 

 lobed irregular, sometimes hence duplex. Stamens 5-10, often 8, 

 exoentric ; filaments free erect ; anthers short, introrsely rimose, 

 Germen (in male flowers rudimentary) 3-lobed, 3-locular ; style stig- 

 matose at apex 3-dentate J ovule in cells solitary ascendent ; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit capsular coriaceous, 1-3-lobed ; cells 

 loculicidal, 1-spermous ; seed exarillate ascendent; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous curved embryo fleshy, unequally 2-plicate — Small 

 erect glabrous trees ; leaves opposite small entire, equal or at base 

 unequal, coriaceous, 3-nerved, pellucidly punctulate ; flowers axil- 

 lary or more rarely terminal cymose corymbiform. {Chilian Andes^) 



53. Bridgesia Bert.® — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Valensuelia) 

 irregular ; sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 4, longer, dissimilar in pairs, 

 iuibricate, furnished within with a large scale, incrassate-cristate at 

 apex. Disk irregular, unequally 5-lobed. Stamens 8, interior to 



' Cotyledons of thick embryo in recent doubt- Endi. ffere. n. 5606 — B. H. Gen. 394. n. 9. — 



ful speciea plano-convex conferruminate; radicle Gmrtdilia G-ill. Sook. JBot. Miso. iii. 170. 

 inflexed (nearly as in ^seulus). * Spec. 1. V. trinervis Bert. loc. at. — 0. Q-ay, 



' Spec. 1 or 2. Walp. Ann. TJi. 621. A genus Fl. Chil. i. 367. — Quindilia trinervis Gill. loc. 



very similar, notwithstanding the external cha- eit. — Wall. Sep. i. 524. 



racter of its fruit, to be referred to Paullinia 6 Cambess. Noui). Ann. Mus. iii. 234, t. 13. — 



(when better known). Bndl. Qm. n. 5602.— B. H. 0-en. 393, n. 4.— 



'Ex (Jambess. Ann, Mus. iii. 236, t. 14. — TripUroearpiislslLEisss. Gen. 52; Comm. 37. 



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