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and this last.is elongated, and forms a large cornet, in the bottom of 
which is at first hidden the gyneceum. The fruit is however 
naked, for the perianth comes away with the upper part of the 
receptacle in a circular piece after anthesis, and the 
pedicel swells into a fleshy glanduliferous mass, as in “/ea denella. 
Alseodaphne (fig. 245). 
The genus Potameia’ was formerly ill-known, and 
wrongly referred to Proteacee,’ no doubt because of 
its quaternary perianth and androceum. Only one 
species is known,’ a native of Madagascar. Its fruit is 
naked, on a non-accrescent pedicel as in Machilus ; 
but its flower is constructed on a binary type. On 
the rim of the shallow concave receptacle are inserted 
two sepals, opposite each other ; next come, more in- 
ternally, two other leaves, which resemble the former 
in size and colour, and represent the corolla. The 
androceum consists of four stamens superposed to the 
perianth-leaves, all introrse two-celled, with their fila- 
ments much dilated and as it were petaloid below. 
Two other stamens, each accompanied by two lateral glands at the 
base, form a third whorl; but these remain sterile. Those of the 
fourth whorl are nearly always absent, or are only represented by 
very short sterile scales. 
II. CRYPTOCARYA SERIES. 
Cryptocarya* has hermaphrodite flowers, formed like those of 
Cinnamomum, if we look only at the upper part, possessing the same 
perianth and the same androceum of twelve stamens, the three 
innermost sterile, the others fertile (viz., six exterior introrse, and 
three interior extrorse, and possessing two basilar lateral glands) ; 
but their anthers are two-celled, and the floral receptacle is 
much deeper, forming a thick-walled pouch, in the bottom of which 
is inserted the gyneceum. And as this last, which in other respects 
1 Doup.-Tu., Gen. Nov. Madag., 16.—Enpi., —Cansjera madagascariensis Sprena., Syst., i. 
Gen., 340; Suppl. iv. p. ii. 81—Meztssy,,in 453. 
DC. Prodr., xiv. 328.—H. By., in Adansonia, 4R. Br, Prodr. Nov.-Holl., 402. — Nzxs, 
ix, 241. Syst.. 192, 205, 222, 675.—EnpL, Gen, n. 
2 See p. 400. 2036.—MeEIssn., Prodr., 68, 507. 
3 P, Thouarsit Ram. & Scu., Syst., ili. 476. 
