506 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



suborbicTilate ; radicle superior, attached to broader side of cotyle- 

 dons. — A very tall tree ; leaves alternate paripianate ; flowers in 

 compound cymiferous terminal racemes. ( Western India}) 



28. Elutheria E(Em.^ — Flowers 4-merous; sepals sbort pubescent 

 imbricate. Petals longer, imbricate or contorted, finally patent. Sta- 

 mens 8 ; filaments connate in tube 8-dentate at apex j teeth. 2 -fid ; 

 anthers sessile in hollows oblong ; connective produced beyond the 

 introrsely rimose cells to a subulate ligule. Germen furnished at 

 base with shortly stipitiform disk, 4-locular ; style slender, apex 

 stigmatose discoid ; ovules cx), 2-seriate in each cell. Fruit an elongate 

 ovoid capsule ; pericarp papyraceous, 4-valvate ; valves attenuated ^ 

 on both sides, free from incomplete septa. Seeds go, compressed and 

 produced downwards to long membranous imbricate wing; nucleus 

 compressed crustaceous surrounding the somewhat thick (green) em- 

 bryo ; cotyledons flat oval ; radicle short exserted ; albumen fleshy. 

 — Tomentose* shrubs or bushes; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite sessile ; flowers axillary solitary or in spurious cymi- 

 ferous racemes. [ColumUa^ Peru.^) 



29 ? Carapa Aubl.^ — Flowers 4-5-merous ; calyx short imbri- 

 cate, equally fid or partite. Petals longer, contorted, finally reflexed. 

 Stamens 8-10; filaments connate in urceolate tube; lacinise of 

 8-10'dentate or fid tube entire or 2-partite {Xylocarpus) ^'^ anthers 

 introrse enclosed, inserted in hollows of tube. Germen surrounded 

 at base with thick disk ; cells 4, 5, oppositipetalous ; style short, apex 

 disciform stigmatose very dilated ; ovules in each cell oo (2-8), 

 2-seriate. Fruit capsular spherical or ovoid woody or fleshy ; cells 

 1-5 ; septa thin sometimes vanishing ; seeds in colls 1 or few large 

 more or less deformed by mutual pressure or pyramidally angled and 



' Spec, 1. 0. tabularu A. Juss. he. cit. — conspecifio with tte Colum'bian.) 



Wight and Abn. Prodr. i. 122. — Wight, III. « Qvian. Suppl. 33, t. 387. — Lamk. Diet. i. 



t. 56.— Swietenia ChieJcrassa Eoxe. Fl. Ind. ii. 621 ; III. t. 301. — DC. Prodr. i. 626.— A. Juss. 



390. — S. villosa Wight. — Plagiotaxis villosa Meliae. 90, t. 9. — Spach, jSmV. o .B«/o«, iii. 202. 



Wail. Cat. — Endl. Gen. u. 6544.— B. H. Gen. 338, n. 29. 



s Synops. 122 (not P. Be.).— B. H. Gen. SS9, — H. Bn. Pai/er Fam. Nat. 4:05.— Persoonia W. 



n. 4. — Sohmardeea Kaest. Fl. Columb. Sp, Sel. i. Spee. PI. ii. 331 (not Mich, nor Sm.). —Smapa 



187, t. 93. EcEM. Synops. 123. — Touloueoima Bosm. loe. eit. 



3 ITiose referring to Swietenia. ? Sohkeb. Gen. n. 646. — Koen. A. Jues. 



* Habit of some Gimonice. Meliae. 91, t. 9. — Poib. Diet. viii. 806 ; Suppl. 



» Spec. 1, 2. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. v. 510.— Spach, Suit, a Bnffon, iii. 204. — Endl. 



216 (_Sapindaeea ?). — Hook. /com. 1. 129 {Guarea). Gen. n. 6545. — Graiiatum Kcen. in Naturf. xx. 



— Tr. Ann. So. Nat. efc 6, xv. 3,76.— Waip. —Monosnma Gbipf. Notnl. iv. 502. 

 Ann. xii. 660. (A Peruvian plant aipparently 



