Pentapyxis.'] LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 17 



are shorter than the ovary and ovate-subulate. The stipules are entirely absent or 

 more or less developed into a small semicircular coriaceous lamina. In the " Genera 

 Plantarum," this species, of which the flower and fruit were then unknown, was 

 supposed to be a Pentapyxis on account of the presence of stipules. 



8. PENT A P VXZ S , Hook. /. 



A woolly erect shrub with solid steins and branches. Leaves opposite, 

 distichous, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, sinuate-toothed ; 



Eiles very large leafy, orbicular margins recurved. Flowers in axillary 

 incled or sessile rarely terminal woollen spikes, with short bracts and 

 teoles. Calyx funnel-shaped, subequally 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, gibbously swollen at the base; limb subequally 5- lobed. Stamens 5, 

 inserted on the throat of the corolla. Ovary 5-celled ; style slender, stigma 

 capitate j ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell. Beri'y ellipsoid, 5-celled, many- 

 seeded. Seeds minute ; testa crustaceous, shining. 



Closely allied to Leycesteria, but differing in the solid branches, calyx, and habit. 



1. P. stipulata, Hook. f. Lonicera stipulata, Hk. f. $ T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 165 ; Gard. Chron. 1858, 700, with Jig. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; at Darjeeling, alt. 6-10,000 ft., J. D. U. 



A shrub, 6-8 ft., densely clothed except the leaves above with soft, white wool. 

 Leaves 4-8 by 2-3 in., base rounded, subentire or sinuate-toothed, puberulous above 

 or glabrate with deeply impressed nerves. Stipule -f in. diam., erect or reflexed. 

 Heads dense, rarely subspicate ; peduncle very stout ; bracts about equalling the calyx, 

 ovate. Flowers in. long, woolly, white. Berry hairy, f in., pulp thin. Seeds 

 ellipsoid. Flowers sometimes 4-merous. 



ORDER LXXV. RUBXACEH!. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, rarely annual, erect or twining, unarmed or spiny, 

 rarely truly prickly. Leaves simple, opposite or whorled, quite entire, 

 stipulate (except in Galiece). Inflorescence various. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary ; limb various. Corolla regular, usually 4-5-lobed, lobes valvate, imbri- 

 cate or contorted (to the left as seen from outside). Stamens as many as the 

 lobes, inserted on the mouth or tube of the corolla, filaments short or long ; 

 anthers 2-celled, usually dorsifixed and dehiscing laterally or in front. Disk 

 epigynous, usually annular or cushion-shaped. Ovary wholly inferior, 2-10- 

 celled ; style simple or cleft, stigmas various ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. 

 Fruit berried, capsular, drupaceous or of dehiscent or indehiscent cocci, 2-10- 

 celled. Seeds various, albumen fleshy or horny. Embryo straight or curved ; 

 cotyledons flat or semiterete, radicle superior or inferior. DISTRIB. Genera 

 about 340 and species 4000, chiefly tropical and subtropical. 



SERIES A. Ovules numerous in each cell (rarely solitary in Cephalanthus and 

 a few Hedyotidece). 



TRIBE I. Naucleeae. Flowers collected into dense globe 83 head?. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped ; stigma simple. 



* Ovaries confluent ; fruits forming a globose fleshy mass ; corolla-Ivies 

 imbricate in bud. 



Ovary 2-celled, ovules numerous 1. SAHCOCEPHALTJS. 



Ovary 4-celled above, 2-celled below, ovules many ... 2. ANTHOCEPHALUS. 



Ovary 2-celled, ovules solitary in each cell 3. CEPHALANTHUS. 



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