MALPIOHIAOEM. 453 



cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick, equal or unequal ; radicle 

 short superior. — Glabrous or m part sericeo-tomentose trees ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate ample oblong entire eglandulose ; stipules coimate 

 in pairs in one axil ; flowers ^ in axillary racemes ; bracts and brac- 

 teoles of pedicels concaye, {Tropical Brazil}) 



3. Coleostachys A. Juss.* — Calyx eglandulose ; sepals 5, accres- 

 cent after anthesis. Petals 6, shortly unguiculate. Stamens 10, 

 1-adelphous at base ; tube barbate; anthers inappendiculate. Gynse- 

 ceum, etc., of Pterandra. " Fruit from 1-3 indehiscent (?) carpels, 

 conflated." — A tree ; leaves ample opposite oblong entire ; stipules 

 very long axillary, connate at base; flowers in axillary spikes 

 sheathed at base with leaf reduced to connate stipules, subsessile, 

 bracteate and 2-bracteolate. (Guiana.^) 



4l. Glouodia Geiseb.^ — Flowers nearly of Acmanthera; calyx 

 8-glandulose. Anthers iaappendiculate. Carpels connate in 3- 

 locular germen ; styles thickish termiual, truncate at stigmatose 

 apex. Fruit from i-3 nuts, depressed, obliquely rostrate, irregu- 

 larly cristate, finally solute. Other characters of Pterandra (or 

 Acmanthera). — Small trees ; branches lenticellate ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate or oblong, entire subcoriaceous ; petiole above the base 2- 

 glandulose \ stipules not conspicuous ; flowers ^ in terminal lateral 

 racemes ; bracts and bracteoles small. {North BrasiV) 



5. Echinopterys A. Juss.® — Calyx eglandTilose. Petals 6, sub- 

 equal or unequal pubescent. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous at base ; 

 anthers iaappendicidate villose. Carpels 3 ; germens free, more or 

 less coalite^ to internal angle (by means of indumentum); styles 

 terminal free, unequally dUated at stigmatose apex. Fruit 3 cocci, 

 indehiscent, at back unequally lappulaceo-echinate. — A shrub ; 

 leaves small, opposite and alternate entire ; stipules setaceous ; 



1 Bather large. 124). 



2 Spec. 1, 2. A. Jirss. Beless. Icon. iii. 19, t. " Mart. Fl. Sraa. Malpigh. 26. — B. H. Gm. 

 30 ; Malpigh. 64, t. 6, fig. inf. dextr. A. 263, n. 11. 



{Piermdra). —Walf. Ann. yii. 468. « " Eed." 



' Jlfa?i)i^A. 69, t. 5 (not Benth.). — B.H.Gere. 'Spec. 1. C. verrucosa Griseb. loe. cit. — 



253, n. 10. Walp. Ann. vii. 469. 



^ Spec. 1. C. genipafoUa A. Juss. he. cit. 60. » Malpigh. 88, t, 9. — B. H. Qm. 264, n. 16. 



—Walp. Rep. v. 178. (Alien genera are C ' Q-ermen single, 3-locular, according to most 



hypoUuea and vestita Bbnih. Sook. Jmvrn. vii. authors, but carpels certainly not connate. 



