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unilateral), or 0. Ovary 1- or iniperPectly 2-celled ; ovules numerous, 

 anatropous, on 2-fiJ parietal sometimes subconliuent placentas ; style 

 linear ; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit capsular or baccate, dehiscent 

 or indehiscent. Seeds small, numerous, fusiform or ovoid, smooth, 

 sometimes tipped with a long hair; albumen scanty or 0; embryo 

 straight. — DiSTRiB. Mostly in S.E. Asia, Polynesia, and Tropical 

 America ; genera about 85 ; species about 900. 



Seeds tipped with a long hair ; perfect stamens 4, didyna- 



moiis. Epiphytic undershriib with flesliy leaves 1. yEsciiYNANTHUS. 



Seeds not tipped with hairs ; stamens not didyuamous. 

 Capsule loculicidally dehiscent. 



Capsule linear or long-lanceolate, much exceeding 

 the calyx ; placentus not bearing seeds on their 



inner faces ; perfect stamens 12 2. Cuirita. 



Capsule ellipsoid or oblong, scarcely exceeding the 

 calyx ; plticentas bearing seeds on all sides. 



Perfect stamens 4 3. Klugia. 



Perfect stamens 2 4. Rhynciioglossdm, 



Capsule cireumscissilely dehiscent. Flowers subcapi- 



tate ; perfect stamens 2 ; capsule globose 5. Epithema. 



1. .ffiSCHYNANTHUS, Jack. 



Epiphytic undershrubs. Leaves opposite, fleshy or thickly coriaceous, 

 usually entire. Flowers often show}^ fascicled in the axils or at the 

 tops of the branches (rarely solitary) ; bracts ovate, usually small. 

 Calyx truncate, 5-fid or 5-partite. Corolla tubular, ventricose or en- 

 larged above, usually incurved; lobes 5. Stamens 4, perfect, didyua- 

 mous, attached at or below the middle of the tube, usually exserted ; 

 anthers cohering in pairs, their tips often free during flowering. Disk 

 annular. Ovary superior, oblong or linear, stipitate ; style short or 

 long ; stigma dilated, truncate, peltate or concave ; placentas naked on 

 the inner face, bearing ovules on the involute margins. Capsule long, 

 linear, loculicidally 2-valved ; valves placentiferous. Seeds very many, 

 oblong or linear, with 1 or more hairs at the end near the hilum and 1 

 at the apex. — Distrib. India, Malaya ; species more thau 60. 



1. .ffischynanthus Perottetii, A. DC. Prodr. v. 9 (1845) p. 261. 

 An epiphytic shrub ; branches long, smooth, more or less compressed, 

 swollen at the nodes. Leaves subfleshy, 2-4| by |-1 in., lanceolate, 

 obtusely acuminate, reticulately veined, glabrous, base acute or rounded ; 

 petioles j-f in. long, stout. Pedicels |^-| in. long, near the apices of 

 the branches, subumbellately 2-6-flowered or often solitary in the axils 

 of the terminal pair of leaves. Calyx |-| in. long, 5-partite nearly to 

 the base ; tube about -^ in. long ; segments narrowly linear, obtuse. 

 Corolla I5-II in. long, scarlet, glabrous or slightly pubescent outside, 

 deciduous, being soon pushed off by the expanding capsule ; tube curved, 

 enlarged at the mouth ; mouth oblique ; lobes reflexed, rounded, ciliate, 

 marked with dark purple lines, the 2 lateral lobes longer than the other 

 3. Stamens much exserted ; filaments minutely glandular-pubescent. 

 Capsules reaching 8 in. long, linear, acute, ghibrous. Seeds about -}^ in. 

 long, narrowlv oblong-ellipsoid, acute and with a long hair at each end. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 339; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 135; C. B. Clarke, in DC. 

 Monogr. v. 5, part 1 (1883) p. 25; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 254; 



