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Corolla-tube split unilaterally. 
Corolla-lobes shorter than the tube. 
Corolla glabrous outside . . . 16. INFUNDIBULIFORMES. 
Corolla villous-tomentose outside with 
verticillate-branched hairs . . 17. Remori. 
Corolla-lobes longer than the tube. 
Flowers in umbels. 
Corolla swollen at the base; no 
intramarginal ring. . - 18. RIGIDIFLORI. 
Corolla not swollen at the base; 
intramarginal ring present - 19. Lonerriort. 
Flowers solitary or fascicled . . 20. LONGICALYCULATI. 
Filaments produced above into a tooth or forming 
a ledge in front of the anther. 
Flowers pentamerous. 
Anuthers transversely septate . . - 21. EUBRACTEATI. 
Anthers not transversely septate. 
Corolla-lobes longer than the tube. 
Filaments involute . ‘ ° . 22. CORIACEIFOLII. 
Filaments straight below, much thickened 
and involute above . . . - 23. RHAMNIFOLII. 
Corolla-lobes much shorter than the tube. 
Style not at all skittle-shaped; bract 
longer than or at least as long as the 
receptacle and calyx : : . 24, OBTECTIFLORI. 
Style more or less skittle-shaped. 
Calyx tubular, enclosing the basal 
swelling of the corolla-tube . . 25. PURPUREIFLORI. 
Calyx neither tubular nor enclosing 
the basal swelling of the corolla- 
tube. 
Corolla-lobes reflexed . : . 26. CoNSTRICTIFLORI, 
Corolla-lobes erect ‘ : . 27. ERECTILOBI, 
Flowers tetramerous. 
Filaments not transversely grooved, produced 
into a tooth (sometimes minute) in front 
of the anther ° ° ‘ r . 28. ISCHNANTHUS. 
Filaments transversely grooved, terminating 
in a ledge in front of the anther : . 29. DIPLOBRACTEATI, 
1. Sycopuina. Racemes axillary, solitary ; bract unilateral ; flowers tetramerous, 
polypetalous. Calyx very short, subtruncate. Corolla subulate in bud ; lower 
part of petal produced above on the inner surface into a small flap, on the dorsal 
surface of which the filament is inserted ; upper part spreading or reflexed. Stamens 
erect ; anthers linear-subulate, dehiscing laterally, divided transversely into nume- 
rous small cells arranged in 2 vertical rows ; connective produced into a subulate 
point above the uppermost cells. Dise absent. Style quadrangular, subtruncate, 
much thickened at the base.—Sycophila, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
xli, 485, genus. 
Corolla in bud narrowly 4-winged in its lower part, wings 
subtruncate above. 
Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 2-23 times as long as 
their breadth ; petals 5 lin. long . ° ‘ . 
Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, 3-3} times as long as their ' . 
breadth; petals 94 lin. long. : ‘ ° - 1. ZL. Wildemanii. 
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2. L. combretoides. 
