46 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Puate 1151. 
HEKISTOCARPA MINUTIFLORA, Hook. f. 
Rosiacez, Tribe Hepyormpea, 
Hekistocarpa, Hook. f. in Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 62. 
H. minutiflora, Hook. f., species unica. 
Has. Western tropical Africa, mouths of the Old Calabar river, 
G. Mann (Feb. 1863). 
Herba 4-5-pedalis, substrigoso-pilosa, annua, caulibus eager 
ea aaeds elongatis. Folia 3-4 poll. longa, opposita, tenniter 
branacea, elliptico- eee in petiolum Goatees racilem an ntahag 
acuminata, utrinque sparse strigillosa. Stipule interpetiolares, pee! 
lanceolate, herbacez, r ele. ores minuti, +15 vs song, in ramis 
gracillimis cymes dichotom axillaris secu ndi, a approximati, sessiles 
brevissime pedicellati, pedicellis bracteolis minimis ein tis auffultis. 
Calycis tabus oblongus, dentes 5, persistentes. Corolla infundibularis, 
tubo intus ie fauce ga limbi lobi 5, late ovati, obtusi, redupli- 
catim val tamina 5, tubo pond inserta, inclusa; anthere 
sessiles, a obtuse. wscus cupularis. ait 2-loculare ; 
stylus cilis, ramis 2 spathulatis caverta ; ovula in loculis nume- 
rosa, l- , placentis fiiiformibus septo longttadinaietne adnatis 
inserta adscendentia minuta, crustacea, lineari-oblonga, 
utrinque obtusa, septo contrarie as ab ie Srigierme in coccos 2 tarde 
dehiscentes partibilis, oligosperma. Sem @ minuta, l-seriata, sub- 
globosa, obtuse rg ree, testa Graiacals, Srcciat, albumine parco ; 
embryo clavatus, 2-fidus 
A Hedyotideous herb, apparently annual, differing much in habit 
hough oac 
from its con : appr ing in inflorescence to Leptoscela 
(tab. 1149), Spiradichs, Ophiorhiza, and other genera of Hedyotidece 
with scorpioid capsule is almos indehiscent, and t 
et 
ovule and seeds seem to be regularly uniseriate in each cell.—J. D. 
Hooker. 
1. Bod Aecgpire erage a a 2. Flower, bracteole, and portion 
3. Corolla 4, 
of Sk of ¢ orolla laid Stamens. 5. Vertical section of ovary. 
6. Capsule. 7. ae 8. Embryo ta magnified. 
