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V. FORSKOHLE.E. 



36. Forskohlea L. — Flowers monoecious. Male calyx 1-phyllous, 

 narrowly tubular at base, obtusely 3-dentate at dilate apex, longi- 

 tudinally open behind, hence bracteiform. Stamen 1, anterior ; 

 filament incurved ; anther introrse 2-celled, 2-rimose. Female catyx, 

 like male, anterior bracteiform. Grermen free ; style filiform, villous- 

 hispidateat stigmatose apex ; ovule 1, ascending, orthotropous. Fruit 

 dry straight compressed punctulate, covered with cottony wool ; seed 

 suberect ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo subrotundate, emarginate 

 at base, longer than radicle. — Undershrubs or herbs, tough, some- 

 times {Euforskoldea) covered with hamate hairs ; leaves alternate or 

 more rarely opposite, crenate or dentate ; cystoliths punctiform ; 

 stipules lateral free ; flowers in campanulate or turbinate involucres ; 

 males more numerous peripheral, or more rarely ; females few 

 (1-6) central ; bracts of involucre 2-6, nearly free or more rarely 

 {Broguetia) more or less highly connate {South Eurojje, warm Africa, 

 South-west Asia). See p. 506. 



37. Distemon Wedd. 1 — Flowers monoecious. Male calyx sub- 

 infundibuliform, bipartite ; segments equal entire shortly acuminate. 

 Stamens 2. Rudiment of gynaeceum linear lanate. Female calyx 

 tubular-ventricose, adnate to germen ; limb very small denticulate. 

 Germen straight oblong-lanceolate ; ovule suberect ; funicle very 

 short ; style linear, articulate at base, soon deciduous, sometimes 

 stigmatose-papillose from base to apex. Fruit simple or double, 2 

 nucamentaceous, clothed in persistent finally rather fleshy ovate calyx, 

 adnate outside. 3 Seed erect ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo quad- 

 rate-rotundate, longer than conical radicle. — A perennial herb; stem 

 erect ; leaves alternate largely serrate, 3-ribbed ; stipules lateral free ; 

 flowers in small-flowered, often 3-flowered, exinvolucrate laxly 

 spicate glomeruli; females often 2-nately concrete {East India, Java*). 



38. Australina Gaudich. 5 — Flowers monoecious. Male cal} 7 x 



1 Monoqr., 550, t. 20, A ; Prodr., 234 62 . Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. ii. 275. — Urtica grossa 



2 That is formed from 2 concrete flowers. Wall., Cat., n. 4615. 



3 Whence spuriously drupaceous. 5 Vby. Uran., Bot., 505. — Wedd., Monogr., 

 * Spec. 1. D. grossum Wedd., Prodr., loc. 543, t. 20, C; Prodr., 235 M . 



cit. — D. indicum Wedd., Monogr., 551. — Miq., 



