466 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



plicate below. — A scandent shrub ; leaves opposite ample entire, 

 sericeous beneath, exstipulate ; petiole glandulose ; flowers ^ in full 

 ramose compound cymiferous racemes ; cymules umbeUiform, often 4- 

 florous ; pedicels long articulate, bracteate at base ; bracteoles 2. 

 {^Tropical western Africa.'^) 



39. JuTbelina A. Juss.^ — Calyx 5-partite; laciniee externally 

 at base thickly 1-glandulose. Petals 5, unguiculate denticulate. 

 Stamens 10 ; filaments 1-adelphous at base ; anthers glabrous. Germen 

 3-lobed ; branches of style 3, 2-lobed at truncate stigmatose apex. 

 Samarge 1-3, membranous inflated, externally produced to short par- 

 allel undulate sinuate leaves ; within spuriously 3-locular ; lateral 

 cellules empty;* the intermediate 1-spermous; testa of long compressed 

 seed membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo straight ; 

 radicle short superior. — A scandent shrub ; leaves opjposite ample 

 entire coriaceous petiolate, glandulose beneath ; stipules minute ; 

 flowers ^ in ramose racemes formed of umbelliform cymules oftener 

 3-nate; bracts and bracteoles surrounding the cymules. (Guiana, 

 Nicaragua. ) 



40. Hiptage Gmktts.'' — Calyx 5-partite ; lacinia 1 furnished ex- 

 ternally at the middle of the base with .a wide glandule adnate to 

 the pedicel. Petals 5, unequal, sericeous unguiculate. Stamens 10, 

 declinate, of which 9 are smaller ; the tenth much longer than the 

 others ; filaments of all 1-adelphous at base ; anthers of all fertile. 

 Germen 3-lobed ; style 1, or more rarely 2, ciroinate in bud, after- 

 wards straight or curved with stigmatose capitellate apex, finally 

 truncate; one larger. Samarse 1-.3, unequally- 3-alate; the 2 lateral 

 expanded, transverse or subdescendent ; the third superior ascendent. 

 Seed subglobose ; embryo exalbuminous curved.— Scandent shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite entire coriaceous eglandulose ; flowers * in axUlary 

 and terminal simple or ramose racemes ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteo- 

 late. (Tropical Asia, Indian Archipelago.'^) 



' Small, -vphite. 6 Spec. 3. Walp. Bep.y. 340; Xre».iv.370. 



2 Spec. 1. F. paniculata Cav. loc. eit.—OhiY. 1 Fmct. ii. 69, t. 116.— DO. Prodr. i. 683.— 

 Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 2%2.—Triaspis FlabeUaria A. A. JusB. Malpigh. 246, t. 16.— Spach, Suit, a 

 Juss. Malpigh. 253, t. 17, n. 26, 2E.— Walp. Buffon, iii. 138.— Endl. Gen. n. 5572.- B. H. 

 Rep. V. 296, n. 4,.—mraa pimata W. Spec. ii. 6en. 258, n. 34.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 36.— 

 HZ.—Triopteris odorata PoiR. Diet. viii. 108, Qcertnera Sohsbb. Gen. i. 290 (not Eetz. nor 

 °- 13. Lamk.). — Molina Cat. Diss. 435, t. 263 (not 



3 Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. 19, t. 32; Malpigh. 326, E. et Pav. nor Less, nor 0. OrAY).—Madailota 

 t. 20.— Endl. Gm. n. 6666.— B. H. Gen. 260, Sonnbk. Toy. ii. ISS.—Succowia Dennst, Comm. 

 "• *2. Ti. 69 (not Medik.). 



Spurious and out of form the exooarp being » Odorous, white; fifth petal different in 



free from the endooarp on both sides. colour. 



* "Purple." 9 Spec. 3, 4. Eoxb. PI. Coram. 19, t. 1.8 



