Mitreola.~\ xcvi. LOGANIACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 79 



* Herbs ; corolla valvate ; capsule compressed, didymous. 



Cymes 2-3-chotomous. Corolla 5-lobcd 1. MITREOLA. 



Pedicels solitary or clustered. Corolla 4-lobed 2. MITRASACME. 



** Shrubs or trees. 



Corolla imbricate. Capsule 2-valved 3. BUDDLEIA. 



Corolla valvate. Capsule 2-valved 5. NORRISIA. 



Corolla contorted. Fruit indehiscent 4. FAGR.EA. 



Corolla valvate. Fruit indehiscent 6. STBYCHNOS. 



TRIBE II. G-aertneriae. Ovary with 1 ovule in each cell. 



Corolla tubular. Anthers nearly included in the tube .... 7. GAERTNERA. 

 Corolla subrotate. Anthers large, exserted 8. G-ARDNERIA. 



1. 1VIITREOLA, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves opposite, membranous ; stipules membranous or small. Cymes 

 2-3-chotomous, terminal or peduncled, axillary. Flowers small, white, often 

 unilateral on the ultimate cyme-branches. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla urn- 

 shaped ; lobes 5, small, valvate. Stamens 5, included. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 

 2, short, connate under one small hairy stigma, ultimately divergent ; ovules 

 many in each cell, placentas peltate. Capsule obovoid, laterally compressed, 

 truncate or 2-horned ; carpels dehiscing by separating from each side of the 

 septum from above. Seeds very many, minute, globose or elongate, albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo linear. Species 4 ; 2 American and the following. 



1. AX. pldenlandioides, Watt. Cat. 4350; leaves oblong nearly glabrous, 

 cymes terminal and axillary 2-chotomous, capsule 2-horned, seeds elongate 

 trigonous, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 9 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 155 ; Hook. Ic. PL t. 

 827 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. \. 91. M. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 4349 ; 



Wight Ic. t. 600 (Jloiuers of principal figure, inaccurate) ; A. DC. I. c. (as to the 

 Asiatic plant}. M. inconspicua, Zoll. et Mor. Verz. (1845-6) 55. 



CENTRAL PROVINCES, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; extending to Bombay and to Ghota Nagpore, 

 frequent. PEGU ; J. Anderson. DISTRIB. Burma, Malaya, N. Australia. 



Annual, 6-18 in., erect. Leaves 2 by f in., narrowed at both ends ; petiole in. 

 Cymes 2-6 in., often numerous; bracts ~ in., lanceolate. Flowers subsessile, scarcely 



4 in. Capsules | in., unilateral on the branches. Seeds twice as long as broad, 

 e American M. petiolata united with this by A. DC. is exceedingly like it, but has 

 globose seeds. 



2. M. pedicellata, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 91; leaves oblong 

 hairy beneath, cymes on long axillary peduncles 3-chotomous, capsule truncate, 

 seeds globose tuberculate. Parophiorrhiza khasiana, Clarke; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iii. 85. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4200 ft. ; Cherra, Limestone Hill, Griffith, J. D. H., Clarke. 



Perennial, 2-8 in., decumbent, branching. Leaves 3 by 1^ in., narrowed at both 

 ends ; petiole ^ in. Cymes 6-12-flowered, lax, irregular, peduncle 1-3 in. Flowers 

 nearly as of M, oldenlandioides, obscurely unilateral, fruiting pedicels sometimes -^- 

 in., but not longer than sometimes in M. oldenlandioides. Capsules $ in., succulent, 

 little compressed. The specimens on which the genus Parophiorrhiza were founded, 

 were mislaid when the Kubiacese were described for this work. 



2. MXTRASACBXE, Labill. 



Small herbs. Leaves opposite stipules forming a minute sheath. Flowers 

 small, white, terminal or axillary, solitary clustered or in irregular umbels. 



