FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
Orpver LXXXVIIT. HYDROPHYLLACEA. (By J. G. Baker, 
with additions by N. E. Brown.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx inferior, deeply divided or 
cut to the base; lobes usually 5, rarely 8-12, imbricate or open in 
zstivation. Corolla gamopetalous, various in shape; lobes usually 5, 
rarely 8-12, imbricate. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, 
inserted at the sinuses or low down in the corolla-tube; filaments 
filiform or dilated at the base; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longi- 
tudinally. Hypogynous disk 0 or inconspicuous. Ovary superior 
l-celled with 2 parietal placentas or 2-celled; ovules 2 or more 
to each placenta; style filiform, usually bifid; stigmas capitate. 
Fruit usually a loculicidally 2-valved capsule. Seeds oblong, globose 
or angled; testa usually tubercled, reticulate or rugose; albumen 
copious, fleshy; embryo smal].—Annual or perennial herbs, rarely 
undershrubs, Stem-leaves usually alternate. Flowers in scorpioid or 
trichotomous cymes, or racemes or clusters. 
Species about 150, mostly American. 
Calyx-lobes, corolla-lobes and stamens 8-12 - . 1. Copon. 
Calyx-lobes, corolla-lobes and stamens 5 ° ° . 2. Hy¥DROLEA. 
® 1, CODON, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 830. 
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' Calyx 8-12-lobed almost to the base ; lobes linear, open in estivation. 
foroitatube campanulate, plaited ; lobes 8-12, oblong. Stamens 8-12, 
inserted at the base of the corolla-tube and connected with it by thin 
or much compressed partitions at the base of the filiform filaments ; 
janthers oblong. Ovary ovoid, 2-celled ; style filiform, bifid to about 
{halfway down; stigmas simple, small; ovules numerous. Capsule 
2—valved, enveloped in the persistent calyx. Seeds numerous, angular, 
covered with large flattened bladdery cells.—Coarse, erect herbs ; stems, 
jleaves and calyx covered with spreading spines. Leaves alternate, 
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