. The natural history of plants. Botany. 10 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Qoupia glabra. All are of Australian origin except two, one from New Zealand, the other from the Philippine Isles. III. GOUPIA SEEIES. In Goupia^ (fig. 12), the flowers are regular and hermaphrodite, with a small receptacle which supports a gamosepalous calyx with five divisions imbricated in prefloration, and five alternate petals, much longer, valvate-induplicate in the bud, and reflexed in such a manner that their attenuated summits hang in the interior of the bud like the key of a vault. Within the corolla, the receptac
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 10 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Qoupia glabra. All are of Australian origin except two, one from New Zealand, the other from the Philippine Isles. III. GOUPIA SEEIES. In Goupia^ (fig. 12), the flowers are regular and hermaphrodite, with a small receptacle which supports a gamosepalous calyx with five divisions imbricated in prefloration, and five alternate petals, much longer, valvate-induplicate in the bud, and reflexed in such a manner that their attenuated summits hang in the interior of the bud like the key of a vault. Within the corolla, the receptacle bears an annular disk in the form of a short collarette with five salient festoons in front of the petals. In the crenatures of the festoons, and consequently in the intervals between the petals, are inserted five stamens, the short filaments of which are attached by their base exactly opposite the internal face of the disk, whence they are free and support each a bilocular introrse anther. The connective terminates in a point covered with straight apical hairs, and Fig. 12. Long. sect, of Flower (-»). its short Cells each Open by a longitudinal cleft. The gynsecium is composed of a free ovary, but surrounded by the disk, with five oppositipetalous cells, each surmounted by a small eccentric stylary branch. In the internal angle of each cell is a placenta bearing two vertical series of numerous anatropous nearly horizontal or ascending ovules. The fruit is a small berry, nearly globular, the cells of which, variable in number, enclose each some ascending seeds. The latter contain under their integuments a fleshy albumen which envelopes an axilate curved embryo, with cylindrical radicle and elongated cotyledons. Only one Goupta ^ is known; it is a small tree from. ' AUEI,. Guian. i. 295, t. 116.—J. Gen. 378. —Lamk. Diet. iii. 15; III. t. 217.—DC. Prodr. ii. 29.—Benth. HooIc. Keto 11.—^Endl. Gen. n. 6696.—Miers, in Ann. Nat, Hist. ser. 3, ix. 289, 293 ;
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