458 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



16? Glandonia Geiseb.^ — Flowers nearly of Bunehosia(ov Byrso- 

 nima)\ calyx 10-glandulose. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous glabrous; cells 

 of glabrous anther appendiculate witb tuft. Germen 3-locular; 

 branches of style free acute. A l-looular oblong-conical somewhat 

 terete coriaceous nut, longitudinally striated, indehiscent (?), 1- 

 spermous; " testa of oblong seed membranous; cotyledons of exal- 

 buminous embryo conferruminate or one abortive," — A small tree;^ 

 younger twigs complanate ; leaves opposite ample entire ; stipules 

 axillary elongate, caducous ; flowers in terminal racemes ; bracts 

 1-3-florous ; bractlets often glandulose. {Northern Brazil?) 



17. Diacidia Geiseb.* — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia ; calyx 

 10-glandulose. Petals glabrous unguiculate. Stamens 10, inserted 

 on pilose receptacle ; anthers 2-aristate at apex. Germen 2-3-locular ; 

 branches of style subfree acute. A 2-3-locular nut, externally 

 corrugate ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo longitudinally in- 

 flexed. — Sericeous shrubs; leaves opposite entire eglandulose; 

 stipules adnate to petiole ; flowers ^ in erect terminal loose compound 

 racemes ; peduncles and pedicels many times articulated. ( Guiana^ 

 ColumUa?) 



18. Dicella Geiseb.''' — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia ; calyx 6-8- 

 glandulose, accrescent after floration. Petals 5, unequal. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments connate and hirsute at base; anthers pilose. Germen 2- 

 locular ; branches of style free, at apex uncinately dilate truncate 

 stigmatose. Nut large, externally longitudinally cristulately-costate, 

 clothed at base with accrete calyx, 1-spermous, indehiscent ; embryo 

 of subglobose seed thick exalbuminous ; cotyledons subhemispherical. 

 --Climbing shrubs; leaves opposite entire; flowers® in corymbiform 

 axiUary 3-chotoraous cymes ; bracts and bractlets foliaceous sub- 

 orbicularly concave involucrant in the bud ? ^ (^BrasiV) 



19. Burdachia A. Juss." — Flowers nearly of Bunchosia (or 

 Dicella); calyx 10-glandulose. Petals 5, unequal. Stamens _10; 



1 Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 23.— B. H. Qen. ' Linncsa, xiii. 260. — A. Juss. Malpigh. 89, t. 



i52, n. 6. 9.— Endl. Gen. u. 6587.— B. H. Gen. 252, n. 6. 



" Hatit of CoUostachis. " Yellow. 



3 Spec. 1. 0. macrocarpa Geiseb. loc. eit. ' As in Thryallis. 



24. — Walp. Ann. -vii. 468. — Surdachia macro- '" Spec, about 3. A. Juss. A. S. S. Fl. Bras, 



carpa Benth. Mer. iii. 69, 177 {Bunchosia).— GmssR. Mart. 



•> Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 119, not.— B. H. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 32, t. 6.— Walp. Eep. v. 



Gen. 252, n. 7. * 196 ; Ann, vii. 468. 



6 Sometimes abortive and reduced to a gland. " Malpigh. 67, t. 4.— Endl. Gen. 'n. 5588. 



. 2. QmsEE, loc. cit. —B, H. Qen. 252, n. 4 (inol. Gantsia Makt.). 



