. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 85. Audioceum and gynseceum. Fig. 87. Fruit. Fig. 86. Gynasceum. stipules. The flowers are solitary or united in small bunches of cymes iu the axils of the leaves or the bracts which upon some branches take their place. Beside Erythroxylon has been placed Aneulophus Africana^ which with nearly the same perianth has petals longer and more reflexed, traversed withia upon the mid-luie by a prominent rib, a monadelphous diplostemonous androceum, and an ovary with three or four biovu- late cells surmounted by a like number of distinct styles. It is a gl
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 85. Audioceum and gynseceum. Fig. 87. Fruit. Fig. 86. Gynasceum. stipules. The flowers are solitary or united in small bunches of cymes iu the axils of the leaves or the bracts which upon some branches take their place. Beside Erythroxylon has been placed Aneulophus Africana^ which with nearly the same perianth has petals longer and more reflexed, traversed withia upon the mid-luie by a prominent rib, a monadelphous diplostemonous androceum, and an ovary with three or four biovu- late cells surmounted by a like number of distinct styles. It is a glabrous shrub having opposite leaves with intrapetiolar. connate stipules and flowers iu axillary cymes; HOUMIRI SEEIES. Houmiri* (fig. 88-97) has regular hermaphrodite flowers organised nearly like those of Ixonanthes. The convex receptacle bears a 1 Oav. Mas. viii. 399.—H. B. K. Nov. &en. et Spec. T. 175, t. 433.—A. S. H. Fl. Us. Brass, t. 69 ; Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. t. 102, 103.—Deless. Io. Set. iii. t. 28.—Wight et Akn. Prodr. i. 106.— EoxB. Bl. Coromand. t. 88.—Wight, III. t. 48 ; Icon. t. 97.—A Rich. Fl. Cui. t. 27.—Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. 113.—Habv. et Cap. i. 233.—Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 273.—Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 283.—Hook, in Bot. Mag. Comp. ii. t. 21.—Walp. Bep. i. 403 ; ii. 842; Am. ii. 195; vii. 463. 2 Often marked within by a surface of a par- ticular colour limited by two curved Unes, cou- caye on the side of the midrib, and depending on the sestiyation of the limb as in certain species of Temstrcemiaeece, 3 Benth. Gen. 244, 987, n. 8.—Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 274.—? ? Caucanthus Foksk. Fl. Arab. 91 (ex Benth.). ^AuBL. Guian. i. 564, t. 225.—H. BN.'in Adansonia x. 368.—Bmniria J. Gen. 435.—DO. Prodr. i. 619.—Mumirium Mart. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 142, t. 198,199.—Bndl. 5486.— B. H. Gen. 247, n. 2.—H. Bn. in Adansonia, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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