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Brownea' (figs. 70-72) has features of all the preceding genera. 
They have still the same receptacle, calyx, fruit, and seeds; the 
corolla consists of five well developed petals, as in Amherstia, but 
there are from ten to fifteen stamens, free or monadelphous to a 
variable height. The flowers of Brownea are united at the ends of 
the branches in splendid short spikes or heads, each flower axillary 
to a coloured petal and bract. The bractlets, united edge to edge 
for a considerable distance, form a long sheath, from which the 
Brownea ceccinea. 
Fia. 70. Fig. 71. Fig. 72. 
Flower. Diagram. Longitudinal section of flower. 
flower emerges on anthesis. About eight species’ of Brownea are 
known, all fine glabrous trees or shrubs from tropical America ; their 
alternate paripinnate leaves possess caducous, sometimes coloured, 
leafy stipules. In this respect Brownea comes very near Elisabetha ; 
but its stamens, which are all fertile, nearly equal, and exserted, 
resemble those of Palovea. 
Saraca’ consists of Indian trees, whose flowers are those of Hum- 
1 Jacg., Pl. Amer. 194, t. 121; Fragm., Reg. (1841), t. 30.—Linpn. & Paxt., Fl. 
t. 16-23.—L., Gen., n. 833.—J., Gen., 366.—  Gard., t. 59.—Watp., Rep., v. 565. 
Lamx., Dict., i. 471; Suppl.,i. 710; TUL, t. 575. 3 Burm., Fl. Ind. 85, t. 25, fig. 2.—L., 
—DC., Prodr., ii. 477.—Envi., Gen. n. 6810. Mantiss., n. 1267.—J., Gen., 422.—B. H., 
—B. H., .Gen., 577, u. 336.—Hermesia Larn, Gen. 583, n. 357.—Jonesia Roxs., in Asiat. 
It., 278 ? (nec K.) Res., iv. 855, icon.; Fl. Ind., ii. 212.—DC., 
2H. B. K., Nov. Gen. e¢ Spec., vi.312—  Prodr., ii, 487.—Spacu, Swit. @ Buffon, i. 110. 
Parr. & Enpz., Nov. Gen. et Spec. t.292.— —ENDL., Gen., n. 6795.—Asjogam RuExp., 
Hoox., in Bot, Mag. t. 3964, 4839.—Bot. Hort. Malab., v. 117, t. 50. 
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