Mr. J. Miers on the genus Anthotroche. 437 



invests the base of the ovary : this must not be confounded with 

 a somewhat similar appearance in Anthocercis and Duboisia, 

 whei'e the corolla breaks away by a circumscissile line, leaving a 

 membranaceous cup surrounding the base of the ovary, as iu 

 I/ycium, Fabiana, Nierembergia, Sessea, Vestia, Cestrum and some 

 others : the disk, although also existing in Anthocercis and Du- 

 boisia, is not free to the base, as in Anthotroche, but is wholly 

 adnate, and often inconspicuous, its obsolete lobes being some- 

 times almost free. The segments of the calyx and corolla are 

 frequently six, when the stamens correspond in number : under 

 the usual pentamerous development, one or two of the lobes 

 of the border and one of the stamens are sometimes smaller 

 and defective, but this appears always caused by the injuries 

 produced by insects, to which the flowers are subject, rather than 

 the consequence of any real irregularity. 



The following is an amended description of its generic cha- 

 racter : — 



Anthotroche, Endl. Gen. PI. p. 1404 j Nov. Stirp. Mus. 

 Vindob. 7 ; A. DC. Prodr. xiii, 674. — Char, emend. — Calyx 

 campanulatus, ultra medium 5— 6-fidus, laeiniis subacutis, extns 

 lanato-tomentosus, intus glanduloso-pubescens, persistens. 

 Corolla extus lanato-tomentosa, tubo basi breviter cylindrico, 

 dein late campanulato, limbo explanato-rotato, 5-6-partito, 

 laeiniis subsequalibus, utrinque tomentosis, sestivatione (ut in 

 Anthocercide) applicativa. Stamina 5-6, inclusa, tubi coarc- 

 tatione ex annulo dense tomentoso oita, filamenta hinc com- 

 planata, valde geniculata et barbata, superne glabra, et tenu- 

 iora, apice reflexa; anthera rotundatse, profunde cordatse, versus 

 sinum affixse, extrorsse, 1-loculares, 2-valves, rima hippocrepi- 

 formi extus dehiscentes, receptaculo pollinis in fundum glo- 

 boso. Pollen globosum, reticulatum. Ovarium obovatum, 

 dimidio basali disco libero cupulari carnoso margine crenato 

 circumdatum, 3-loculare : ovula plurima, adscendentia, pla- 

 centis utrinque dissepimento adnatis affixa. Stylus fihformis, 

 apice incurvus. Stigma clavatum, sub-bilobum. Capsula 

 ovata, calyce recondita, 3-locularis, septifrage 4-valvis, valvis 

 coriaceis, dissepimento piano, lunato, coriaceo, soluto, imo se- 

 minifero, superne fisso. Semina tereti-oblonga, subincurva, 

 hilo infra medium faciei ventralis affixa, testa favoso-scrobicu- 

 lata. Embryo (sec. Endl.) in axi albuminis carnosi, cotyledo- 

 nibus brevissimis obtusis, radicula infera tereti, basi incurva, 

 imo spectante. — Frutex Australasiacvs ramosus, pube brachiato 

 densissime lanato-tomentoso vestitus; folia alterna, ovata vel 

 obovata, integra, a'assiuscula, brevissime petiolata, juniores in 

 ramulis novellis valde conferti, et hinc flores solitarii, subses- 



