472 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
lary or subterminal, usually subcorymbiform' (Zropical, and Southern- 
subtropical America’). 
31. Pleurothyrium Nens.*—Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
thick, shortly obconical, lined by a thick disk, more or less inflexed 
above ; perianth-leaves longer thick coriaceous deciduous. Fertile 
Stamens 9, inserted perigynously with perianth outside rim of disk ; 
outer 6 alternating with perianth-lobes; inner 3 2-glandular ; 
filaments rather thick ; anthers thick, cubical-oblong ; locelli 4, in a 
finally horizontal row, extrorse in outer 6, introrse in inner 3 
stamens ; outer locelli sublateral; middle pair rather higher. Sterile 
stamens 3 small, or 0. Germen included in receptacle, free. Berry 
included in or surrounded by receptacle with truncate apex... .?— 
Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; inflores- 
cences (usually large) axillary or terminal ; bracts deciduous (Peru, 
North Brazil‘). 
382. Dicypellium Nezs..—“ Flowers dicecious. Perianth rotate 
spreading, deeply 6-partite, coriaceous, wholly persistent. Male flower 
unknown. Female :—stamens 12 sterile, 4-seriate; 3 outermost 
petaloid persistent, finally coriaceous; those of second row antheri- 
form subspathulate, obsoletely 4-locellate below inflexed apex ; those 
of third row similar to last, smaller subtruncate; of fourth row 
scale-like erect oblong, appressed against pistil. Other staminodes 0. 
Stigma acute. Berry dry, at base surrounded by subcarnose en- 
larged and indurated perianth spreading with the stamens; sup- 
ported on dilated flat 6-angular disk” (Brazi/‘). 
33. Synandrodaphne Mrissn.’—Flowers hermaphrodite ; recep- 
tacle infundibuliform; perianth subrotate 6 merous persistent. 
! Nezs divides this genus into two sections:— 281.—Maztssn., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Laurac., 
1. Pomatia, flowers rather large, usually tomen- 
tose outside; staminodes small or 0; inflores- 
cences corymbiform or thyrsoid; leaves usually 
revolute at edge. 2. Porestema (SCHREB.), 
flowers small glabrous or sub-tomentose; sta- 
minodes small subcapitate or 0; inflorescences 
thyrsoid or more frequently laxly elongated ; 
leaves flat, or more rarely slightly reflexed at 
‘edge. 
2 Species about 75. NzExs, in Linnea, viii. 
46; xxi, 501—Bentu., Pl. Hartweg., 253 ; 
Sulph., 161.—GRIszB., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., i. 
250, t. 90-101, 105 (iii.), 
3 Syst., 342, 349.—ENDL., Gen., u. 2047.— 
Metssy., Prodr., 168. 
4 Species 7 or 8. Mrissn., in Mart. Fl. 
Bras., Laurae., 279.—Waxp., Ann., iii. 311. 
5 Syst.. 343.— Env. Gen, n. 2045,— 
Metssn., Prodr., 170. 
§ Species 1. D. caryophyllatum Nuxs, loc. 
eit, (excl. syn.).—Mutssy., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 
Laurac., 281, t. 102.— Persea ? caryophyllata 
Mazt.(ex Metssw.).— Ibyra Giynhaof the natives. 
7 Prodr.,1 76 
