474 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Germen free ; style short; apex thickened 3-gonous stigmatiferous. 
Berry surrounded at base by truncate turbinate receptacle; rim 
double ;- both lips very short erect; outer obsoletely 6-crenate ; 
inner subentire.—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate coriaceous pen- 
niveined ; peduncles axillary and subterminal slender at above 
halfway up, forming branching corymbs, bracteate; branches of 
peduncles cymose or subumbellate, 3-0 -flowered (Zropical America). 
See p. 436. 
37. Goeppertia Nuzs.'—Flowers diccious or polygamous ; recep- 
tacle cupuliform or very shortly obconical spreading; perianth 
rotate; leaves 6 equal short, tardily deciduous. Stamens 9 (in 
female flower sterile antherless), in male flower fertile, 2-locellate ; 
innermost 3 2-glandular extrorse; filaments flat; connective pro- 
duced beyond cells. Germen (in male flower sterile narrow) inserted 
in centre of receptacle, free; stigma often subsessile. Berry oblong, 
long surrounded at base by persistent 6-lobed perianth, supported 
on cupuliform truncate (after fall of perianth) receptacle.-—Trees ; 
leaves alternate penniveined or more frequently pseudo-tripliveined ; 
inflorescences axillary lax (Zropical America’). 
IV. TETRANTHERE. 
88. Tetranthera Jacg.—Flowers dicecious (or very rarely poly- 
gamous). Perianth usually 6-merous petaloid deciduous, inserted 
on small subconcave receptacle. Stamens usually 9~12, more rarely 
15-30, perigynous ; filaments free; inner 3 or 6 possessing 1] or 2 
stipitate or sessile glands; anthers (in female flower rudimentary or 
0) 4-locellate. Staminodes obsolete or 0. Germen (in male flower 
rudimentary or 0) free; style slender, variably dilated at stigmatife- 
rous apex. Berry supported on patelliform flat or subconcave, entire 
or sinuate receptacle.—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate or more 
rarely opposite, penniveined, persistent or rarely deciduous; buds 
with leafy scales, or more frequently incomplete; flowers forming 
4-8-flowered umbels; each inflorescence enclosed in an involucre 
1 Syst., 864, 865.—ENDL., Gen., n. 2051.— —Sonort, in Spreng. Syst., iv. 406 (Crypto. 
Mrissn., Prodr., 172, 518.—ZEndlicheria Nezs, carya).—Grises., Fl, Brit. W. Ind., i, 284 
in Linnea, viii. 87 (nec PREst).—Schaueria (Aydendron), —Mutssn., in Mart. Fi. Bras; 
Nex, in Lindl. Nat. Syst., ed. 2, 202. Laurac., 281, t. 108, 104. 
2 Species 12-14. Nuns, in Linnaa, xxi. 513. 
