510 LVIII. LYTUEACE.T3. 



hemispheric ; teeth about as long as the tube, broadly triangular, very 

 acute ; accessory teeth inconspicuous. Petals or minute. Capsule 

 not wholly covered by the calyx, globose, red, irregularly circumsciss. 

 Seeds ^-obovoid, excavated on the plane face, much smaller at one 

 end than the other, yellowish-brown. — Flowers : Nov. 



May be distinguished from A. baccifera by the leaves which are 

 rounded or cordate at the base, those of' A. baccifera being attenuated. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 569 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 97 ; "VVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 11 (189S'> p. 638. A. verticiUata, Lamk. Encyc. Method, v. 1 

 (1783) p. 131, & 111. t. 77, f. 3 (7iot of Wight). 



Konkan: Bahclll, Stocks I; MalwAn, Dahell cj- Gihson. Deccan : Kelgaon near 

 Pooiia, likiva !, Woodrow ! S. M. Country : Belgaiim, Ritchie, 268 ! Sind : Woodrowi 

 — DiSTiUB. Generally throughout ludia ; Tropical Africa. 



2. W^OODFORDIA, Salisb. 



Shrubs, often arborescent ; younger branches quadrangular, more or 

 less tomentose, the older terete or compressed beneath the nodes, gla- 

 brate. Leaves decussate, more or less coriaceous, nigro-punctate beneath, 

 penninerved and reticulately veined. Flowers in paniculate cvmes, on 

 axillary peduncles, rarely solitary ; pedicels bracteate at or near the base. 

 Calyx "tubular, the limb sometimes dilated, more or less contracted above 

 the fruit ; teeth 6, short, with as many minute accessory teeth. Petals 

 0, minute, or 0. Stamens 12, inserted near the bottom of the calyx- 

 ttibe, much exserted, the alternate ones longer ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers broadly ovate or stibrotund. Ovary sessile, cylindric, 2-celled 

 (sometimes incompletely so); ovules numerous, minute, inserted on 

 thick placentas adnate to the axis of the ovary ; style filiform, longer 

 than the ovary, slightly longer than the stamens, sometimes narrowed at 

 the apex ; stigma punctiform. Capsule covered by the calyx, ellipsoid, 

 often splitting the calyx, thinly membranous, often bursting irregularly. 

 Seeds small, narrowly cuneate-obovoid. — Distjiib. India, China, Tropical 

 Africa, Madagascar ; species 2. 



1. Woodfordia floribunda, Salisb. Pamd. Lond. (1806) t. 42. A 

 straggling leafy shrub reaching 12 ft. high ; branches long, spreading ; 

 bark smooth, cinnamon-brown, peeling off in fibres; young shoots 

 terete, often clothed with fine white pubescence. Leaves 2-3| by |-1 in., 

 opposite or subopposite, sometimes in whorls of 3 {Brandts), sessile, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, softly velvety above, usually hoary and always 

 nigro-punctate beneath, base rounded or cordate ; main nerves 0-12 

 pairs, arcuate, prominent beneath, uniting in a distinct intramarginal 

 nerve. Flowers numerous, in short 2-15- (rarely 1-) flowered cymes 

 from the axils of former, less commonly of present leaves ; pedicels short, 

 glandular-pubescent. Calyx | in. long, striate, covered with glandular 

 (lots, with a small cami)anulate base and a long slightly curved bright- 

 red tube which is slightly contracted above the included capsule ; mouth 

 oblique; teeth about -^ in. long, triangular, acute. Petals slightly 

 longer than the calyx-teeth, narrowly linear, produced at the apex to a 

 long fine point. Capstde § in. long, usually splitting the calyx near the 

 base, irregtdarly dehiscent. Seeds cuneate-obovoid, brown, smooth. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 572 (exclud, syn. Grisica unijlora, Kich., and Grislea 



