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Floivers usually small, axillary or terrninal, in racemes fascicles or 

 corymbs rarely solitary, usually bracteate and bracteolate. Calyx-tuhe 

 globose, its teeth 4 or 5, small. Corolla urceolate, tubular or ovoid, 

 5-lobed, pink white or greenish -yellow. Stamens 8 or 10, free, inserted 

 near the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong, with two apical 

 cylindric tubes dehiscing by terminal slits, sometimes appendiculate at 

 the base (apical tubes very short in one or two species). Disk cushion- 

 shaped, convex, sometimes lobed. Ovary 4- or 5-celled, or falsely 

 8-10-celled ; style cylindric ; stigma simple ; ovules few or several in 

 each cell. Fruit a more or less globose berry, crowned by the persistent 

 calyx-lobes, 5-celled or falsely 10-celled. Seeds small, 1 or more in 

 each cell, ellipsoid, compressed ; testa firm, smooth. — Disteib. Species 

 about 140, in the Northern Hemisphere or on mountain ranges in the 

 tropics. 



Leaves broadly elliptic, ovate-rotund or oblanceolate, the 



apex broad, sometimes minutely apiculate but never acute, 



very coriaceous : — 



Leaves under '75 in. in length, elliptic or obovate-ellip- 



tic ; corolla '3 in. long, tapering to the mouth ; a small 



glabrous tree or bush . . 



Leaves under 1 in. in length, ovate or elliptic ; corolla "2 

 to '25 in. long, the mouth wide, truncate ; an epiphytic 

 shrub, glabrous except the scurfy branches . . 

 Leaves elliptic, their apices sub-obtuse, the base truncate 

 or minutely cordate, 1 to 1-35 in. long ; flowers enveloped 

 in large deciduous bracts 



Leaves broadly oblanceolate or spathulate, much narrowed 

 to the base 

 Leaves obovate-elliptie, slightly narrowed to the apex but 

 never acuminate, coriaceous ; flowers "35 in. long, in 

 axillary racemes 



Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute acute or acumi- 

 nate : — 

 Leaves entire : — 

 Leaves glabrous : — 

 Leaves coriaceous : — 

 Leaves with 4 or 5 pairs of main-nerves ; flowers 

 •2 in. long, in axillary and terminal racemes : 

 mouth of corolla entire or obscurely toothed ; a 

 shrub or small tree ; anthers with short broad 

 beaks . . . . . . . . ■ 



Leaves with 3 pairs of main-nerves ; corolla '2 in. 



long ; its mouth with 5 short, broad, recurved 



lobes ; beaks of anthers truncate, shorter than the 



cells, epiphytic 



Leaves sub-coriaceous, their main-nerves 3 pairs ; 



flowers -35 in. long ; beaks of anthers more than 



twice as long as the cells ; epiphytic 



1. V. Scortechinii. 



2. V. viicrophylla. 



3. V. glabrescens. 



4. V, viscifolimn. 



5. V. Teysmanni. 



6. V. bancanum. 



7. V. Kunstleri. 



8. V. Hasseltii. 



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