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pericarp, probably dry and coriaceous at maturity. It is ar glabrous 

 plant with large opposite leaves accompanied by two large foliaceous 

 interpetiolar stipule's. The inflorescence, situate at the end of a small 

 axillary branch which bears either leaves or only their stipules, is a 

 compound capituHform cyme with short pedicels, the final divisions 

 of which become uniparous. It is surrounded by three unequal pairs 

 of bracts -forming an involucre, so that the inflorescence is nearly 

 that of a Cephcelis.^ 



IX. OLDENLANDIA SERIES. 



This genus, to which we shall restore many others that have been 

 successively separated from it, was founded in 1703 by Plumiee. In 

 the true Oldenlandia^ of this author (fig. 311-314), the flowers are 

 of five or oftener four parts and nearly always hermaphrodite. The 

 concave obconical or globular receptacle lodges in its cavity a 

 bilocular ovary, surmounted by a style with two short stigmatiferous 

 branches and a little developed epigynous disk. In each ovarian cell 

 is a placenta globular or nearly so, supported by a foot inserted at a 

 variable point of the interlocular partition from the base to the 



' Three genera of douttful affinity, imper- bracts. The sepals are similar to the bracts 



feetly known to us, especially the first two, have and accrescent. The corolla is valrate and the 



been ranged in this group, viz. Ooiiiaiicra, gynaecium formed of a 6-10-celled ovary, sur- 



Zasiostoma and Pramviuia. Gonianera is from mounted by a large disk and a 6-10-branohed 



Sumatra. Its flowers would be pentamerous, style. The ovules are very numerous on 



its corolla valvate ; the ovary bilocular and placentas represented as branched. The fruit 



multiovulate, surmounted by a stj-le with long is srid to be fleshy. 



claviform stigmatiferous branches. Its poly- " Plvm. Mv, PI. Amer. Gen. (1703) 42, t. 36. 



spermous fruit is a berry. The. flowers are — L-. Gen. n. 154, — J. Gen. 198. — Lamk. 7/^. t. 



axillary, accompanied with bracts. Zasioatoma, 61. — G.9!KTN. Fruct. i. t. 30. — jyC. Prodr. iv. 



a glabrous shrub of New Guinea and New Ire- 424. — B. H. Gen. ii. 58, 1228, n. 83. — Baker, 



land, with the opposite leaves of Loranthus, has Fl. Maurit. 138. — Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 64. — 



axillary capituliform infiorescenoes. Theflowers Llsleria IS'ECS.. .Efefn. u. 456 (exDC). — Gcron- 



are said to be tetramerous, with entire calyx, togea Ch. et Schlchtl, ZimicBu, iv. 154. — Gono- 



valvate corolla, and the fruit fleshy and poly- theca Bl. ex DO. Prodr. iv. 429. -Endl. Gen. 



spermous. 7Va)«D«?t«, a shrub of Borneo, with n. iiSd.— Kohautia Ch. et Schlchtl, loc. eit. 



opposite leaves, has polygamo-monoeoious, 4-6- 156. — Karamyschewia Fisch. et Mey. Bull. 



merous flowers, in axillary cymes mistaken for Mose. (1838) 266.^Theyodis A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 



capitules, remarkable for their wide involucrant i. 36 1. 



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