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inserted on the throat of the calyx, alternating 
with the sepals. Stamens 5, inserted with the 
petals, alternating with them, sometimes 10, with 
every alternate one sterile : anthers 2-celled, 
didymous. $ Calycine tube adnate to the 
ovary • limb 5-cleft. Petals 5, distinct (or united 
at the base), oblong. Lamellse (abortive stamens) 
5. Styles 3, with stigmata broad, obtusely bifid. 
Fruit globose, fleshy, marked in the centre with 
a circular line (indicating where the calyx ad- 
hered) and with 5 cicatrices, internally 3-celled : 
indehiscent, with the rind solid, and with the 
central axis large fleshy and 3-gonal : cells many- 
ovuled. Seeds compressed, oval, exalbuminose : 
embryo straight, with cotyledons plane, subcar- 
nose. — DC. 
Named in honor of Lewis Fevillee, a French Francis- 
can monk who travelled in Peru. 
1. Fevillea cordifolia. Antidote Cocoon , 
Leaves cordate acuminate undivided or pent- 
angulo-sublobate with four of the angles glandu- 
loso-incrassated. 
Ghandiroba vel nhandiroba Brasiliensibus, Sloane, I. 
200. Fevillea foliis crassioribus glabris qunndoque cor- 
datis, quandoque trilobis, Browne, 347 — F. scandens, 
Wright's Memoirs, 211 — F. cordifolia, Swartz, Obs. 377. 
II A B. Common in damp wooded valleys, and shady 
places. 
F L. April — June. 
Stem perennial, climbing to a great height. The early 
leaves are undivided, whereas those towards the end of 
the branches are pentangulo-lobate, with the four central 
angles glanduloso incrassated ; otherwise eglandulose; 
nerves three with the lateral nerves bifurcated near their 
origin ; texture thick, glabrous, porose. $ Racemes 
axillary and terminal, subdivided : peduncle angular, pu- 
berulous with capitate hairs. Flowers rather small, of 
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