BUT ACE JE. 463 



13. Ravenia Velloz. 1 — Flowers nearly of Galipea ; sepals 5, very 

 unequal ; exterior 2 much larger, foliaceous ; pignoration imbri- 

 cated. 2 Corolla gamopetalous, very irregular ; tube rather wide and 

 straight ; limb oblique 5-lobed, unequally oblique, imbricated. Sta- 

 mens 7, of which 2 fertile, alternating with petals, bearing introrse 

 2-rimose anthers ; sterile 5, subulate-glandular, antherless, of which 

 3 larger are alternipetalous, 2 smaller thinner, alternipetalous, alter- 

 nating with alternipetalous staminodes ; filaments all connate coa- 

 lescing with tube of corolla. Disk shortly tubular, and gynseceuni of 

 Galipea (or Erythrochiton) ; styles 5, coalescing in tube, at apex free, 

 stigmatiferous. Fruit and other characters of Erythrochiton ; calyx 

 persistent round caj)sule. — Grlabrous pellucid -punctuate (fragrant) 

 shrubs : leaves opposite, 1— 3-foliolate ; flowers 3 axillary, solitary or 

 scantily cymose, bracteate {Cuba, Brazil*). 



1 4. Monniera L. 5 — Flowers nearly of Ravenia ; sepals herbaceous, 

 very unequal, imbricated ; exterior 2, 3, larger foliaceous. 6 Corolla 

 nearly of Ravenia, sub- 2 -labiate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous ; fila- 

 ments connate with tube of corolla ; fertile 2, with introrse 2-rimose 

 anthers ; sterile 3, subulate barbate glandular at apex. Disk oblique 

 or 1 -lateral, 7 squamiform. Gynseceum of Erythrochiton (or Ravenia); 

 style capitate at apex. Fruit, seeds, and other characters of Erythro- 

 chiton. — Annual, glabrous or villous herbs ; leaves alternate, 3-folio- 

 late, thinly punctuate ; folioles entire, membranous ; flowers 8 in 

 axillary, pedunculate, slightly ramified cymes, 1 -parous, falsely race- 

 mose (Guiana, Brazil 9 ). 



III. DIOSME^]. 



15. Coleonema Bartl. & Wendl. — Flowers hermaphrodite; re- 

 ceptacle subplane or rather concave, outwardly produced in cupuli- 



1 Fl. Flum., i. 20, t. 49. — Pl., in Ann. Sc. Gen., n. 5994. — B. H., Gen., 286, u. 9. — 

 Wat., ser., 3, xix. 75. — B. H., Gen., 286, H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 309. — Aubleiia, 

 n. 8. — Lemonia Lindl., in Rot. Reg. (184.0), Rich., iu Pers. Syn., ii. 638jnec Lous., nee 

 t. 59. G.ebtn., nee Scheeb., nee Jacq.). 



2 For prsefloration and form see H. Bn., in 6 Simulating floral bracts. 

 Adansonia, x. 308. 7 Opposite, intermediate. 



3 Handsome, white, pink, or reddish ; perianth 8 Small, not handsome, sessile. 



and androceum pellucid-punctuate. 9 Spec. 2. Aubl., Guian., ii. 730, t. 293. — 



4 Spec. 2. Walp., Rep., v. 387 {Lemonia). H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 9. — Nees & 



5 L„ Gen., n. 850. — A. Juss., in Mem. Mm., Maet., in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 162, t. 18. — 

 xii. t. 52, fig. 31.— DC, Prodr., i. 729. — Endl., Te. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, xiv. 305. 



