166 RH AMNEA. ViTTMANNIAS C7 
nerves distant, reticulated with transverse veins. Flowers few, arranged in 
: short axillary cymes. 
618. (1) C. Asiatica (Brongn.:) erect, glabrous: leaves ovate, acumina- 
ted, obtuse or truncate and 3-nerved at the base, crenate-serrated, glabrous; 
shining : cymes about the length of the petioles, some of the flowers fertile; 
others sterile: petals convolute, emarginate, rather longer than the stamens. 
—Brongn. in Ann. des se. nat. 10. p. 869; Wight! cat. n. 505.—Ceanothus 
Asiaticus, Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 129 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 30; Spr. syst. 1. p. 1125 
Roxb.! fl. Ind. 1. p. 615 ; (ed Wall.) 2. p. 335 Wall.! L.n. 4262.—C. capsu- 
laris, Forst. ; D.C. prod. 2. p. 82; Spr. syst. 1. p. 772.—Pomaderris capsula- 
ris, G. Don in Mill. dict. 2. p. 89.— Burm. Zeyl: t. 48. 
VIL VITMANNIA. W. & A. (not Vahi.)\—Willemetia, Brongn. (not Neck.; 
Cass.; &c.) - 
Calyx urceolate ; tube adnate to the ovary at the base, free above ; limb 
5-cleft, erect. Petals 5, cucullate; unguis scarcely any. Stamens at first 
inclosed within the petals: anthers ovate, 2-celled. Torus very thin, lining 
the tube of the calyx. Ovary half inferior, 3-celled. Style simple, 3-angled, 
3-furrowed. Stigma 3-lobed.—A perfectly glabrous shrub, with erect branches. 
Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, more or less obtuse, serrated, feather- 
nerved: stipules broad and short, recurved. Flowers small, white, a 
in few-flowered axillary or terminal cymes. 
The Willemetia of Necker having been kept up by Cassini and Lessing, renders 
another name imperative. We have revived that of Vitmannia, the genus of that 
name instituted by Vahl being now ascertained to be the same with Samadera of 
Gertner. 
_ 519. (1) V. Africana (W. & A.)—Wight ! cat. n. 504,—Willemetia Afri- 
cana, Brongn. in Ann. des sc. nat. 10. p. 371.—Ceanothus Africana, Linn.; 
D.C.! prod. 2. p. 32 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 772.— Pluk. t. 126. f. 1——Sent to Dr 
Wight by his collectors, but from what part of the Peninsula is uncertain. 
VIII. GOUANIA. Jacq. ; Lam. i.t. 845.—Retinaria, Gaertn. fr. t. 120. f. 
Calyx 5-cleft ; segments spreading. Petals 5, convolute or cucullate. Sta- 
mens 5, enclosed within the petals: anthers ovate, 2-celled. Disk concave. 
or flattish, 5-angled, the angles opposite to the petals ; the sides usually pro" 
duced opposite to the calycine-segment, and forming a stellate disk, the 2 — 
cessory angles being either entire or 2-horned or truncated. Ovary connate 
with the bottom of the tube of the calyx, covered over by the disk, 3-celled. 
Style 3-fid. Fruit inferior, with 3 angles or keels or wings, consisting of ' 
separable dry coriaceous compressed indehiscent carpels (^ mericarps )s which 
are attached to a central tripartite filiform receptacle.—Usually climbing 
shrubs, with the branches often, from abortion, converted into tenar. 
Leaves stipuled, alternate, feather-nerved, somewhat 3-nerved at the base 
from the lower nerves being largest and arched. Flowers usually fascicled 
on leafless branches, forming interrupted spikes or racemes, rarely umbellate 
or racemose in the axils of the upper leaves. Fruit as in the Umbellifere, 
but consisting of 3 instead of 2 mericarps. d n 
520. aid. G. leptostachya (D.C. :) branches glabrous: leaves ovate, aC on 
nated, 
cemes interrupted, axillary or in terminal panicles, elongated, when young s 
pubescent, afterwards glabrous: flowers on very short pedicels, polygam "€ 
tly cordate at the base, coarsely crenate-serrated, glabrous: 7 ^ — 
