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as projecling ridges along the inside of tlie tube, down to tiie middle 

 or till close to tlie base. Between these ridges the inside is coveied 

 with soft crisp hair; the descriptions of the genns however are 

 wrong, where ihej' say : "Faux bnrhata' for the hairy covering of 

 the faiw (regarded as orifice of the tube) is lacking everywhere. 



When the limb is still closed, the corolla is externally entirely 

 covered with thick-velvety or short silky hair. 



The stamina have thin filiform filaments, which, as already 

 observed, are congenitally attached to the corolla-tube, forming 

 protnding ridges; the part projecting from the coi'olla is short and 

 filiform, in .some species hairless, in most of them covered with 

 fnrry hair in front : the anthers are very nai'row lanceolate and 

 have a linear connective, coherent wilh the filament near the base 

 at the backside; the long linear anthercells diverge more or less at 

 the base, so that the base of the anther is retnse, or arrow-shaped 

 as with 6'. Jlavescens, while the tip ends in a tapeiing point; the 

 backside is covered wilh appressed hair, except in C. Hammii, where 

 also the free filaments are almost lacking. The anthers hang more 

 or less versatile from the corolla during the Howering and are 

 curved up or contorted. 



The pistil is highly characteristic for this genus. The stigma is 

 wedge-shaped or cylindrical (in Lindeniopsis c\u\)-s\taped) vot divided 

 into lobes, and proportionately long. The style is straight and smooth 

 and compressed sideways, and about as long as the corolla-tube, so 

 that the stigma overtops the corolla far. The papillary surface I 

 generally found covered with pollen. 



The ovary, covered with an annular disk, is regular, bilocular 

 as in the whole group of Cinchoneae. Around a fleshy, cylindrical 

 axis, nearly filling the two ovary-cells, are the numerous anatro- 

 pous, tlat, peltate, erect, imbricate ovules. 



The fruit is globular or more or less oblong, compressed at 

 right angles with the septum and has in a ri()e condition a though, 

 horny or thin parchment-like envelo[)e, surrounded by a thin dry 

 outer-integument. In very old fruits the outerlayer crumbles down 

 and the horny valves come quite into view; in this respect there 

 is some analogy with Bikkia (Co n da m i n eae). The splitting into 

 valves is not perfectly regular. It begins with the separation of septum 

 and axis, (loculicide dehiscence) at the top of the capsule, but next 

 the septum itself splits, so that 4 cocci are formed open at the top 

 and at the sides and connected at the base. This latter splitting 

 however may fail to occur. During the splitting the fleshy placenta 

 shrivels up, causing the numerous seeds to get gradually loose. 



