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ap|)l3' it (o Co/i/o.sapelta jlape.sceiis Korth, discovered l\v v. Hasselt 

 and himself in Java. He called it Stylocoryna tomentosa, while 

 likewise Wallich, Miquei, and later Mekkiij, and Weknham classed 

 species of Coptosapelta either with Sfyloco7\i/ne or witii Rnndia (see 

 above p. 2). 



Whether the great similarity in tloral structure between two genera, 

 belonging to different principal divisions of the family, also points 

 to a natural relation, is still an open question. 



^ 12. JVeiv description of the genus. Calyx cup-shaped, 

 quinquepartite, quinquelobate or quinqnedentate, perennial, with 

 axillar glands. 



Corolla, contorted in the bnd, trumpet-shaped, tube varying in 

 length, outside velvety or covered with sulky hair, inside bare or 

 provided with furry ridges descending from the filaments, between 

 those thinvelvety, straight or inflated above the middle, throat not 

 bearded, lobes linear-oblong, obtuse. 



Stamina 5, inserted on the throat, fdaments filiform, short, the 

 front furry or bare, anthers thin, linear-lanceolate, tapering at the 

 top, at the base twice-i)ointed, obtuse or arrow-shaped, near the 

 base dorsifix, on tlie backside juovided with two rows of hairs 

 directed upwards (in Liiideniopsis bare). 



Disc small, annular. 



Ovary bilocular, style anceps, hairless, stigma entire, cylindrical 

 or club-shaped, long, far overtopping the corolla (in one species 

 square with hairy angles); placentas coherent to the septum, ovules 

 numerous, ascendent, imbricate. 



Capsule more or less globular or oblong, bilocular, at the top 

 loculicide bivalvular, later on quadripartite. 



Seeds small, peltate, imbricate; membianous, winged all round 

 with fringe uolched (in Lindeniopsis undulate) wing; endosperm 

 fleshy, germ straight, root straight, directed downwards. 



Lianes or Shrubs {Lindeniopsis). Twigs velvety or bare, round 

 or more or less square. Leaves opposite, thin-leathery, elliptical, 

 lanceolate or oval, usually tapering with a rather abrujit acumen; 

 usually luiiiy on the underside. Leaf-ner\'ature more or less acrodro- 

 mous. Stipules small, interpetiolar, triangular. 



Flowers small or middle-sized, while or light yellow, in axillary 

 closed racemes or trichotomous, branched cymes, united at the twig 

 tops to many-flowered panicles. 



