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stamens, and the same gyneceum. The pod, which only opens very 
incompletely, is oblong compressed, and straight or bowed, and has 
often a thick narrow rudimentary wing on the parietal suture. The 
seeds are orbicular compressed, borne on a funicle which is sometimes 
dilated into an aril.’ But the flowers of Schotia are never enclosed 
in the two accompanying bractlets, which, like the axillant bracts, 
are membranous and caducous. The flowers are numerous, in 
compound racemes that are often much ramified. The four or five 
species composing this genus are unarmed trees or shrubs from South 
Africa,’ with paripinnate leaves possessing short caducous stipules. 
Palovea’ has nearly the flower of Amherstia and Humboldtia. But 
the corolla is reduced'to the three posterior sepals, the two anterior 
having disappeared ; and the stamens, which are free, are only nine 
in number, owing to the disappearance of the vexillary stamen also. 
The two accompanying bractlets are united into a tube to a pretty 
good height, and the leaves are simple and entire, instead of being 
compound. P. guianensis, the only species, is an unarmed tree from 
Guiana, whose flowers are in short few-flowered spikes terminating 
the branches. 
Elisabetha‘ has externally altogether the flower of Palovea, with 
two lateral bractlets united for some distance into a tube, and a 
corolla of five well-developed petals. But of the nine stamens, which 
are united for a very short distance at the base of the filament, the 
three alone that are superposed to the three anterior sepals are 
large and end in well-developed anthers. The six others have only 
little sterile anthers, or are reduced to the subulate filaments. The 
gyneceum and fruit resemble those of Amherstia and Palovea in LE. 
coccinea Scuoms.,’ the only known species, an unarmed tree from 
Guiana, with paripinnate leaves and short terminal racemes, each 
flower axillary to a large coloured coriaceous bract. 
26; Suppl., v.114; Zi, t. 331.—DC., Prodr., 
ii, 507.—EnDi., Gen., n. 6785.—B. H., Gen., 
581, n. 350.—Guaiacum L., ex J., Gen., 347.— 
Theodora Mrvix., Monog., Mannb. (1796), 16, 
icon., ex Eoxu. & ZEyH., Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr, 
261.— Scotia TuunB., Fl. Cap., i. 3889.—Ompha- 
lobiwm Jacg., ex DC., loc. cit., 508 (nec DC.). 
1 The aril exists in S. latifolia Jacq. (Fragm., 
28, t. 15, fig. 4), which Dr Canpoizz has inade 
the type of his section Omphalobioides. S, 
(Theodora) speciosa Jacg., lacks it. 
2 Harv & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 278.—Harv., 
Thes. Cap.,t.82.—Jacq., loc. cit., 186 ; Ic. Rar., 
t. 75.—Hoox., Exot, Flor., t. 159; in Pot. Mag., 
t. 1153.—ANnDR., Bot. Repos., t. 348.—BoLLE, 
in Pet. Mossamb., 18.—H. By., in Adansoniu, 
vi. 187, 197.—Outv., Flor. Trop. Afr., ii. 309. 
3 AuBL., Guian., 365, t. 141 (Paloue).—J., 
Gen., 351.—LamMkx., Dict., iv. 716; Suppl., iv. 
265; Jil., t. 328.—DC., Prodr., ii. 518.— 
EnDL., Gen., n. 6799.—B. H., Gen., 578, n. 339. 
—Ginnania Scorv., Introd., n. 18366.—ScHREB., 
Gen., 271. 
4 Scuoms., in Hook. Journ., ti, 92.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 67941.—B, H., Gen., 577, n. 387. 
5 Watp., Rep., i. 848. 
