98 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
boldtia or Amherstia, with the exception of three characters. They 
have no corolla, and their coloured perianth is of a calycine nature ; 
their axillant bracts are surmounted by two far less developed bract- 
lets, which do not surround the whole flower, and which may overlap 
by their thin edges; and in certain species the ten stamens are not 
all fertile, five or six having no anthers. The filaments, too, are 
neither altogether free, as in Humboldtia, nor united for a long way, 
as in Amherstia, but are only monadelphous close to their insertion. 
The fruit is an elongated, flattened or turgid, bivalve pod. The 
genus contains three or four species, not very distinct, all Asiatic.’ 
Their stems are unarmed, and covered with alternate paripinnate 
leaves, possessing little caducous stipules. The flowers form com- 
pound ramified racemes, often lateral. 
Apalatoad has the apetalous flowers of Saraca, possessing a diplo- 
stemonous androceum, of which several pieces may be absent, and a 
usually pauciovulate androceum. The fruit is orbicular oval or 
oblong, dehiscing in two valves with thickened edges ; it contains 
one or two flattened exalbuminous seeds. The genus consists of 
trees with alternate imparipinnate leaves, possessing stipules of 
variable form and duration. The flowers form simple racemes 
terminating the young branches, or inserted laterally on those of 
former years. ach flower is axillary to a bract, and is accompanied 
by two lateral bractlets, which are sometimes large and spreading, 
and persist for a good time beside the flower, which they at first 
enveloped completely. There are some half-score of species, mostly 
from tropical America ;° one is found in the west of tropical Africa,* 
one in Ceylon,’ and one in the Indian Archipelago.’ 
The corolla reappears in Baikiea,’ whose calyx possesses four thick 
unequal sepals, which only overlap by their bevelled edges. The 
’ Wieut & ARN., Prodr., ii. 487.—WieHnt, 
Icon., t. 206.—M1Q., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. 1, 83. 
1445.—Pryona Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. 1, 
1081. 
—Bot. Mag., t. 3018.—Waxp., Ann., iv. 609, 
610. 
2 AuBL., Guian., 382.—H. Bw., in Adan- 
sonia, ix. fasc. 7.—Crudia, SCHREB., Gen, 282. 
—B. H., Gen., 584, 1003, n. 358.—H. Bn., in 
Adansonia, vi. 199.—Crudya W., Spee. ii. 
539.—DC., Prodr., ii. 519.—EnptL., Gen., 
n. 6802.—Opalatoa AUBL,, op. cit., t. 147.— 
Touchirow L. C. Ricu., ex Enpi.— Touchiroua 
AUBL., op. cit., 384, t. 48.—Vouarana AUBL., 
Suppl. 12, t. 347 ?—Cyclas Scurzs., loc. cit. 
(part.). — Waldschmidtia Nucx., Elem., nu. 
3 Griszs., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 216.—Watp., 
Rep., i. 854; v. 573; Ann., iv. 611. 
4 C. senegalensis Pu.—Brntu., Niger, 329; 
in Trans. Linn. Soc., xxv. 314, u, 1. 
5 ©. zeylanica Buntu., loc. cit., n. 2.—De- 
eta zeylanicum Tuw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 
14, 
8 Apalatoa bantamensis.— Pryona banta- 
mensis, M1Q., loe. cit., n. 1. 
7 BENTH., Gen., 581, 1003, n. 349; in Trans. 
Linn, Soc., xxv. 314, t. 41.—Outv., Fi. Trop. 
Afr., ti. 308. 
