sapanred

[BRAZILIN.] yellow. Calyx four or five-parted, or of four or five sepals; petals four, five, or none; disc fleshy; stamens eight to ten, rarely five, six, or seven, or twenty; style undivided, or two or three-cleft; ovary generally with three, rarely with two or four two, three, rarely ovules. Fruit capsular, two or three-valved, sometimes winged, or fleshy and indehiscent; embryo, often curved or twisted spirally. Found in South America, in India, and various tropical countries. Tribes. Sap indese, Hippo cast a nee, Dodonese, and Meliosmese. Known genera fifty, species, 380. ( Lindley .)