728 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



tube. Ovary superior, mostly 2-1 -celled with a transverse septum and 

 simple 2-lobed style ; and many flat or winged seeds without endosperm, 

 in the long capsule. 



Species 500, chiefly tropical. 



i. TECOMA Juss. (1789). (Campsis Lour., 1790.) 



Shrubs climbing, with aerial rootlets, or erect, with opposite, odd-pin- 

 nate leaves (rarely simple), and red or orange flowers in terminal inflores- 

 cences. Calyx unequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube narrow-campanulate, 

 its lobes spreading. Stamens didynamous ; the pollen-sacs diverging. 

 Capsule long ; seeds transversely winged. 



(Fig. sub Campsis, in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3$, p. 231, A.) 



Species 80, in warm and temperate countries. 



T. VALDIVI^E Phil. 



Elegant climbing shrub, often over 3 m. long, with leaves having 5 

 pairs of leaflets coriaceous, oblong, entire, or appressed-serrate apex- 

 wards, 30 by ii cm.; the terminal leaflet often long. Racemes 7-10- 

 flowered. Calyx turbinate, its teeth short, triangular. Corolla tubular, 

 red-saffron, over thrice as long as the calyx, with short-rounded, slightly 

 spreading lobes, pubescent inside. Larger stamens and the style as long 

 as the corolla. 



(Chili); W. Patagon. "Adorning the shady woods." 



Family 102. GESNERIACE.E. 



Herbs or shrubs, with opposite, simple leaves and showy flowers on 

 axillary peduncles. Flowers sympetalous, zygomorphic, with inferior or 

 superior bicarpellary i -celled ovary, having 2 parietal or intruding placenta, 

 and 4 or 2 stamens, with i or three staminodes ; anthers mostly conniving 

 or cohering. Style i. Ovules numerous, minute, with straight, rather 

 long embryo, mostly endospermous. 



Species 700, in warm climates ; not north of Mex. in the New World. 



i. ASTERANTHERA Hansk. 



Slender climbers, with small, crenate leaves, and large flowers solitary 

 on short, axillary pedicels. Corolla scarlet, bilabiate, upper lip erect, con- 



