238 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



[Clui/tiamlra'^); receptacle convex or rather concave. Perianth 

 hypogynous or slightly perigynoiis, generally 5-nlerous ; sepals 

 imbricated ; petals imbricated or narrow not touching. Glands of 

 extrastaminal disk oppositipetalons, free or connate in membraneous 

 crenate nrceolum. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted on receptacle 

 scarcely or not at all elevated above variously shaped rudimentary 

 gyna^ceum ; filaments free or ofteuer 1-adelphous ; anthers introrse 

 or lateral; cells short longitudinally rimose. Germen 3-locular; 

 cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 3, stigmatiferous, 2-fid or 2-lobed at 

 apex. CajJsule 3-coccous ; seeds albuminous exarillate, — Shrubs, 

 undershrubs or herbs ; stem erect or decumbent ; leaves alternate 

 stipulate penninerved or sub-8 -nerved ; flowers- axillary solitary or 

 cymose, more rarely in cymiferous racemes ; female pedicels thicker 

 longer.^ [All ivarm and temp, regions.'^) 



119, Poranthera Kudge.^ — Flowers monoecious ; receptacle sub- 

 plane or rather convex. Sepals 5, imbricated and petals same in 

 number, shorter, imbricated. Glands of disk 5, oppositipetalons, 2- 

 lobed. Stamens 6, alternipetalous ; filaments from three laminne 

 under rudimentary gyna3ceum membraneous subpaleaceous con- 

 stantly obovate, free finally elongated and much incurved ; 

 anthers basifixed; cells 4, shortly subporicide rimose at apex. 

 Germen 3-looular ; cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 3 from base, 2- 

 partite papillose stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds generally 

 6, subglobose foveolate ; semicylincb-ical cotyledons of terete embryo 

 subequal to or shorter than radicle. — Herbs or cricoid undershrubs, 

 erect or diff'use ramified ; leaves alternate stipulate narrow linear ; 



fig. 29. — Kees, Gen. ii. t. 39. — Endl. Gtii. n. whence to Amanoa, differing from the section, 



5841. — H. Bn. Eiqjiwrb. 575, t. 27, fig. 18.— M. with hypogynous oppo.sitipctalous glands by 



Ako. Prodr. 2Zi.— Tdephioidcs T. Inst. Cur. 60, hahit. 



t. 485. — Arachiie Neck. Hkm. n. Wi&.—Emc- * Spec, ahout 12 Lamk. Bid. ii. 212, n. 35 {Cro- 



Zi's«B FoKSK. Descr. Oeij.-Arub. 208. — Zimeum ton). — SFiiEsa. Si/xt.ui. SSi.—SiBTH. Fl. GrrBc. 



FoBSK. loc. cit. (neo L.). — MaschaUnthus x. t. 953. — Keichd. le. Fl. Germ. v. fig. -1807.— 



NuTT. Fl. Arkans. (neo Auctt.). — Leptopus Dcne. in Ann. Mus. iii. 484. — Scheele, in 



Done, in Voy. Jacquem. Bot. iv. 155, t. 156. — Ziiimca, xxv. 583 (Cliii/(ia).Suiij). in Ziniiaa, 



Zepidanthm kuTT. MSS. (ex ToBU. Mcx. Bound. xxiii. 135 {P/ii/llniithis).—^!}^. Eiiiim. PL Chin. 



Surv.l'dA). — P/it/l/ivitliupsis ScHEEi.. in Ziimcea, 59. — Kl. in TTaldeni. lleis. 111. t. 2i {P/ii/l/a/i- 



XXV. 584. — Phi/lUuitliide<i Dieuk. Pl.iioitii. Mm. iJiiis). — MiQ. FL Jiid.-Bal. i. p. ii. 365. — Boiss. 



/laj'ii. (1853), 29. Vuigii. PL Ur. vii. 8fi. — M. Arc. in Ziiiiicea, 



' M. Ako. in Seem. Jutini. (1864), 328; xxxii. 78.— H. Bn. in^l</rtHso/(in, iii. 153; vi. 334. 



Prodr. 225. i In Trans. Linn. Sue. x. 302, t. 22, fig. 2.— 



- Small usually greeni.sh yellowish or Au. Bu. in J.iw. Sc NaL ser. 1, xxix. 383. — 



whitish. Endl. Gen. n. 5859.— H. Bn. Fuph,rb. 573, t. 



^ A genus hence nearly allied to Phyllanthue 25, fig. 1-9. — M. Arg. Prodr. 191. 





