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are ten in number, as in Copaifera; and all pussess fertile two-celled 
anthers unless some of the posterior ones are reduced to their fila- 
ments. The gyneceum too resembles that of the Copaivas; the 
ovary contains two descending ovules, and the style ends in a point 
or a peltate stigmatiferous dilatation. The fruit is as yet unknown in 
the single African species possessing three pairs of leaflets referred 
to this genus, and in one of the two Asiatic species, which has 
usually several pairs of leaflets. But in the other Asiatic species, 
whose stigma is peltate and whose leaflets are reduced to a single 
pair, we observe a flattened pod, the lower part of which, flattened 
and elongated, resembles a phyllode, the upper part alone dehiscing 
to reveal a cavity containing a seed with fleshy embryo. Hardwickia 
consists of three species of unarmed trees from tropical Africa and 
Asia.’ Their alternate paripinnate leaves possess from two to six 
leaflets apiece. The flowers form ramified racemes, and are 
accompanied by scaly bracts and lateral bractlets. 
The flowers of Prioria® are very nearly those of Hardwickia. The 
floral receptacle, not very greatly developed,’ bears on its edges a 
deeply five-lobed calyx, narrowly imbricated in the bud. Of the ten 
free stamens five are superposed to the sepals, and five alternate with 
them. The filaments are but slightly perigynous,* and the anthers 
are introrse two-celled, and of longitudinal dehiscence, with a thick 
apiculate connective. The gyneceum is inserted in the centre of the 
receptacle. Its shortly stipitate ovary contains one or two descend- 
ing ovules like those of Copaifera. The style is short and subulate 
with an obtuse stigmatiferous tip.’ The oblique orbicular-oval flat- 
tened woody pod contains one descending seed, whose exalbuminous 
embryo has thick fleshy coherent cotyledons, and a short thick radicle. 
P. Copaifera Griszs., the only known species, is a large unarmed 
tree from Central America and the Antilles. It has alternate pari- 
‘pinnate leaves, with two or four leaflets and caducous scaly stipules. 
Its numerous small flowers are collected into ramified spikes, termi- 
nating the branches. Each flower, axillary to a little bract, is ac- 
1 Roxs., Fl. Ind., ii, 425.—Wieut & ARN., 
Prodr., i. 284.—Oziv., Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 
315. 
2 Grises., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 215.—BEnNtTH., 
in Trans, Linn. Soc., xxiii. 390, t. 40.—B. H., 
Gen., 585, n. 363. 
3 It is, however, more concave than in the 
preceding genera, and is lined with glandular 
tissue. Hence the perianth and androceum are 
truly perigynous. 
1 Jn the bud the filament is so inflexed that 
the anther is brought to the bottom of the re- 
ceptacle, between the insertion of its filament 
and the short foot of the gynzceum. 
5 The style is reflexed in the bud; its apex 
touches the back of the ovary, 
