MALPIGHIAOE^. 



441 



ovary succeeds a fruit formed of three small saraarse, surrounded by 

 a marginal wing and bearing on the back, like those of Tristellateia^ 

 a small ridge unequally dentate on its free edge. 



IV. GAUDICHAUDIA SEEIES. 



This small group has been formed of some genera whose principal 

 character consists in the diminution of the androceum (whence the 

 name of Meiostemones). The flowers, on the type 5, have in fact 

 stamens not exceeding six in number, and those generally correspond 



Sehwannia elegans. 



Fig. 449. Flower (a). 



Fig. 450. Flower with perianth removed (f) . 



to the petals that are wanting. Again, several of them are trans- 

 formed into sterile staminodes. There is otherwise scarcely a con- 

 stant form except in Sehwannia^ (fig. 449, 450), by which the study 

 of this series may be commenced. The flowers are regular and 

 hermaphrodite. The quinquefidal or quinquepartite calyx bears 

 seven or eight glands. The alternate unguiculate petals have a 

 fimbriate limb. The stamens are six in number and all fertile, 

 superposed five to the sepals and the sixth to a petal. The filaments 



'Enbl. Gen. n. 6563. — A. Juss. Mal- 



piffh. 351, t. 22.— ;B. H. &en. 262, n. 49. 



— B. Bn. in Fayer Fam. Nat. 312.— Jlrm- 



VOL V. 



hriaria A. Juss. in A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mcr. 

 iii. 63, t. 173 (not Nees). — Spach, Suit, a 

 jiuffon, iii. lo5. 



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