LYTHRACEZ. 449 
Rica, Puntarenas (S. Hayes, 454).—Widely dispersed over Tropical and Subtropical 
Asta and AFRIca; also occurring in NortH AUSTRALIA, and cultivated and naturalized 
in America. Hb. Kew.] 
9. ANTHERYLIUM. 
Antherylium, Rohr et Vahl, Skrift af Nat. Selsk. Hafn. ii. pars 1, p. 211, t.8; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 
Plant. i. p. 782. 
The genus is at present limited to two shrubby or arboreous species. The other one 
is a native of St. Thomas and Porto Rico. 
1, Antherylium nudiflorum, Hemsley, Diag. Pl. Nov. pars 1, p. 13. (Tab. 
XXVIL) 
Inerme, per anthesin aphyllum, foliis non visis, floribus glabris subumbellatim fasciculatis vel 
corymbosis pedicellatis. 
Arbor vel frutex, ramulis teretibus, glabris, inermibus, per anthesin aphyllis. Folia.... Flores 
glabri, longe pedicellati, ad 7-8 lin. diametro, subumbellatim fasciculati vel corymbosi; pedi- 
celli graciles, 4~6 lin. longi, basi parvibracteati, apice infra florem bibracteolati, bracteolis par- 
vissimis ; calyx 4- (rarissime 5-) lobus; tubus hemispheericus ; lobi ovato-lanceolati, acuti, tubo 
duplo longiores ; petala 4 (rarissime 5), brevissime unguiculata, corrugata, patentia; stamina 
numerosissima, uniseriata, filamentis filiformibus; ovarium glabrum, subglobosum, membra- 
naceum, 4-sulcatum, uniloculare, stylo filiformi, elongato, stigmate truncato; ovula minuta, 
numerosissima. 
South Mexico, without locality (Jurgensen, 956). Hb. Kew. 
EXPLANATION OF TAB. XXVII. 
A branch, natural size. 
Fig. 1, a pentamerous flower; 2, a tetramerous flower 3; 3, ovary; 4, ovary and portion of calyx, 
showing the insertion of the stamens. 
Order LVIJ. ONAGRARIE. 
Onagrariee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 785. 
There are about 300 species of this family, belonging to twenty-two genera. They 
are chiefly herbaceous plants, with the exception of Fuchsia; and a very few attain the 
dimensions of trees. Generally dispersed in temperate regions, and finding their 
greatest concentration in North America, Mexico, and the Andes of South America. 
1. EPILOBIUM. 
Epilobium, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 471; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 787. 
Herbs or undershrubs. About fifty species, generally dispersed in cold and tem- 
perate regions, and especially abundant in New Zealand. Some of the species have a 
very wide range. _ 
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