438 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



of tubnlar-hypocrateriform corolla 5 (or 6, 7), obtuse, contorted, 

 finally open ; throat villose. Stamens as many alternate, inserted in 

 tube; filaments short; anthers dorsifixed, apiculate; cells 2, free 

 below ; connective thickened at back. Disk situate in sterile germen 

 cupular. Style fusiform, 2-6-dentate at apex. Female flower . . . ? 

 Fruit fleshy, crowned with accrete calyx ; cells 4, oo -spermous. Seeds 

 (immature) compressed ; embryo . . . ? — A small pubescent tree ; 

 leaves opposite glabrous or variously clothed oblong-lanceolate ; 

 stipules intrapetiolar connate in a sheath finally fissous ; male flowers ' 

 in terminal corymbiform cymes ; female solitary.^ {Brazil.^) 



90 ? Schachtia Karst.* — Flowers dioecious (nearly oi Amaioua). 

 "Male calyx tubular, bearing 5 distant and erect hairs at truncate 

 mouth, persistent. Lobes of hypocrateriform corolla 6-9, contorted, 

 lanceolate, open. Stamens 6-9 (sterile in female flower), inserted in 

 tube ; anthers dorsifixed sessile subacute enclosed. Disk annular. 

 Germen in female flower 2-celled, oo -ovulate ; placentae axile tumid ; 

 branches of short style 2, thick. Berry corticate hispid; cells 2, 

 many-seeded. Seeds lenticular smooth, immerged in pulp ; albumen 

 copious ; cotyledons of minute embryo foliaceous. — A hirsute tree ; 

 internodes tumid at apex ; leaves opposite obovate-lanceolate ; petiole 

 short ; stipules intrapetiolar connate in a sheath flnally fissous and 

 deciduous; flowers^ terminalat top of short axillary twigs; males 

 solitary; females cymose, shortly pedicellate." * (Columbia.'') 



91. Stachyarrhena Hook, f.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of 

 Amaioua) ; male calyx cupular truncate or obtusely 5-lobed. Lobes 

 of tubular subcampanulate coriaceous corolla 5, contorted; throat 

 villose. Stamens 5, inserted in throat ; anthers subseSsile apiculate. 

 Germen sterile; style short fusiform pilose. <' Germen of female 

 flower 4-c» -celled ; ovules oo , inserted outside revolute lamellae of 

 placenta. Berry ® shortly pedicellate, crowned with calyx ; pedicels 



' Males moderate. 5 White, rattier large. 



' Rather a sect, of Amaioua ? « A genus almost unknown to us ; whether a 



'Spec. 1. B. psychotrioides. DC. — Viviania sect, oi Amaioua ot Billiottia ? 



psyehotrioides Coll. — Melanopsidium nigrum ' Spec. 1 . S. dioica Kaest. loc. cit. 



Gels (ex DC). » Icon. t. 1868 ; Oen. ii. 80, n. U6. 



* Linnma xxx. 156 ; Fl. Colomh. i. 89, t. 44.— ' '• Size of a cherry," according to figure, 



B. H. Gen. ii. 80, n. 147. crowned with tubular calyx. 



