418 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



disk, excentric ; filaments free ; anthers introrse. German excentric, 

 3-locular ; style slender, stigmatose 3 -fid at apex ; ovules in cells 

 solitary ascendent from tlie base of tlie internal angle; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Capsule membranous, 3-gonal; cells infiated, 

 produced upwards at tbe back to a vertical wing, finally free from 

 axis and dehiscing longitudinally inwardly and at the apex ; seed 

 subglobose, exarillate ; testa hard ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 curved embryo 2-plicate. — An erect glabrous shrub ; leaves alternate 

 coriaceous, entire or 3-lobed, dentate and inciso-serrate ; fiowers 

 axillary pedunculate, solitary or 2 or few cymose. {Chili}) 



54. Urvillea H. B. K.^ — Flowers irregular polygamo-dioecious 

 (nearly of Paullinia) ; sepals 5, unequal, imbricate ; the two ex- 

 terior smaller. Petals 4, furnished with squamule within, imbricate. 

 Stamens 8, interior to 1-lateral disk, unequally distended into lobes 

 or disconnected glandules. Excentric germen and ovules of Paul- 

 linia; style short, stigmatose 3-fid at apex. Fruit 3 samarse, to 

 middle seminiferous membranous broad winged, indehiscent and 

 finally free from short central columella. Seeds arillate at base; 

 testa crustaceous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick. — 

 Scandent or volubile shrubs, sometimes cirriferous ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate ternate ; leaflets entire or dentate, sometimes punctate ; 

 fiowers in axillary shortly oymiferous racemes 2-cirrose at base. {Both 

 Tropical Americas.'^) 



65. Serjania Plum.^ — Flowers polygamous irregular (of Urvillea) ; 

 fruit 3 samarse, indehiscent, seminiferous at apex. Other characters 

 of Urvillea. — Scandent or volubile shrubs ; leaves alternate, 3-nate, 

 2-ternate or imparipinnate, often punctate ; infiorescence of Urvillea. 

 {Tropical and Subtropical South America.^) 



1 Spec. 1. D. incisifoUa Beht. loc. cit. — C. in MSm. Mm. xviii. 20. — Spaoh. Suit, d, Buffon, 

 Gay, Fl. Chil. i. 368.— Walp. Bep. v. 360 (^S^m- iii. 43.— Etol. Gm. n. 5600.- B. H. Gen. 393. 

 piata Otilens). n. 2. — Seriana Schdm, Act. Soo. Safn. iii. p. ii. 



2 Nm>. Gen. et Spec. y. 105, t. 440.— DC. Prodr. 126, t. 11. 



i. 602. — Cambess. Ann. Mus. xviii. 19. — Spaoh. « gpeo. about 140. Jacq. Sort. Schcenbr. t. 



Suit, a Sufoii, iii. 43. — Endl. Gen. n. 6599. — 99 {Paullinia). — A. S. H. Fl. Sras. Mer. i. 355, 



B. H. Gen. 392, n. 1. t. 75, 76.— P(epp. et Endl. Nov. Gm. et Spec. t. 



3 White, articulate. t. 242.— TuEcz. in Bull. Mosc. (1868), i. 396. 



< Spec, about 10. A. S. H. PI. Item. JBres. t. Gteisee. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 123 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 



74 ; Fl. Bras. Mer. i. 352. t. 74.— Griseb. Fl. 44.— Tjr. et Pl. Ann. 8c. Nat. s&:. 4, xviii'. 345! 



Brit. W.-Ind. 121.— T:^.6tV-L. in Ann. Sc. Nat. — Eaelkof. Conspect. Sect. Specierumgue Gen. 



ser. 4, xviii. 344— Walp. Mep.i. 611; v. 369 ; Serjanise (1874). Monach. e Monogr. Gener". 



Ann.i. 132. iv. 376. Seors. edit. (sect. 12).— Walp. Sep. i. 411- ii 



6 Gen. 34, t. 35.— H B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 843 ; v. 369 ; Ann. iv. 376; vii. 619. ' 

 V. 107, t. 441.— DO. Prodr. i. 602.— Cambess. 



