496 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



191. Paracephselis H. Bn.' — Flowers spuriously capitate, 5- 

 merous (nearly of Nauclea) ; receptacle obovoid. Calyx persistent ; 

 lobes 5, ovate-acute. Corolla ^ and stamens . . . ? Grermen 2-celled ; 

 disk epigynous orbicular ; style . . . ? Ovules in cells few (6-8), 

 inserted on a peltate placenta orbicularly affixed to septum, suborbi- 

 cular compressed. Fruit . . . ? — A shrub densely tomentose in every 

 part ; branches 2-furcate, at apex bearing 2 opposite, petiolate leaves, 

 cordate at base, obtuse at apex, thick soft, scabrous above, velutinous 

 beneath ; nerves rather prominent reticulate ; stipules acute ; glome- 

 rules gathered in a capituliform globe ; flowers shortly pedicellate, 

 free, 1-bracteate, 2-bracteolate. (Madagascar.^) 



192. Sarcocephalus Apzel.*— Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly 

 of Nauclea) ; germens inferior adnate in hollows of receptacle and 

 continuous, with it. Calyces free, truncate or dentate ; teeth appen- 

 diculate of muticous (Platanocarpus *). Corolla {oi Nauclea) imbricate 

 or more rarely valvate. Stamens of Nauclea ; anthers oftener sub- 

 sessile. Germen inferior, 2-celled or 4-cellulate 2hoye{Anihocephalus °); 

 ovules in cells l-oo, inserted on an entire or 2-lobed placenta depend- 

 ing from top of septum, descending. Fruit compound (syncarpous), 

 consisting of receptacle confluent with exocarps ; flesh sometimes 

 scanty (Cephalidium,'' Breonia^) ; putamens 1- oo-spermous, membra- 

 nous, rather hard or crustaceous. Seeds crustaceous, granular or 

 cancellate, minutely arillate, albuminous. — Trees or shrubs, rarely 

 climbing; leaves opposite, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, sometimes 

 large, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar various, deciduous or caducous ; 

 inflorescences' bracteateor ebracteate, axillary or terminal; peduncles 

 oftener long rigid, sometimes bearing above (Breonia) a spathiform 

 involucre surrounding the inflorescence and rising above it in long- 

 horned apex. (Trop. Asia, Oceania and Africa, Madagascar.^') 



Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 184. — Kobth. Verh. ii. 29, u. 1. — Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 2i.— Gephalina 



Nat. Geseh. 162, t. '33, 34.— Thw. Enum. PI. Thohth. ei Bcyivm. Beskr. lfS5 ^cX.: Jnthocepha- 



Zeyl. 1 38. — KvEZ, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 68. — lus EiCH. Breonia Rich. Cephalidium Rich. PU- 



Bekth. Niger Fl. t. 42— Hook. Icon. t. 781. — tanocarpus Koeth.). 



EiERN, Fl. Prop. Afr. iii. 41.— Kaest. Fl. Col. » Korth. Verh. Nat: Geseh. 152, t. 32. 



153, t. 180 [Nauclea).— 'Waisb. Sep. ii. 612, 943 ; « Rich. Rub. 157 (part). — Endl. Gen. n. 3236. 



Ann. i. 378. — B. H. Gen. ii. 29, n. 2.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 23. 



• Adansonia, xii. 315. " Rich. Rui. 210.— Endl. Gen. 1393. 



' The younger valvate ? ; apex of lobes in- " Rich. Rub. 210. — DO. Prodr. iv. 620.— 



curved. Endl. Gen. u. 3285.— B. H. Gen. ii. 32, n. 8.— 



^ Spec. 1. P. tiliacea H. Bn. he. cit. H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 311. 



* Ex Sab. Trans. Sort. Soc. v. 422, t. 18. — ' Rightly compound-glomeralate ; flowers 

 LiNDL. op. cit. vii. S6.^RicH. Rub. 211. — DC. white, yellow, golden or red. 

 Prorfniv.Se?.- Endl. ffen. n.3281.— B.H. ffeji. >» Spec, about 15. 'Roxs. Fl, Iiid. ii. 121 



