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leaves submembranous diversiform ; flowers in terminal umbels (?). 

 {India). See p. 105. 



7. Lophostoma Meissn.^— Flowers nearly of Linostoma ; calyx 

 tubular, marcescent, persistent round fruit large membranous. 

 Squamules 10, inserted in throat with as many longer stamens. 

 Hypogynous disk 0. Fruit dry enclosed by calyx and basally 

 seated in receptacle thickened to a ring, acuminate ; pericarp smooth 

 crustaceous, indehiscent. Seed . . . ? Other characters of Linostoma, 

 — Small trees or shrubs; leaves opposite or subopposite {oi Lino- 

 stoma) ; flowers in terminal corymbiform pedunculate racemose ra- 

 cemes; flowers ebracteate; pedicels very short persistent.^ {Nor- 

 thern Brazil,^) 



8. Synaptolepis Oliv.* — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Lophostoma^ 5-merous; perianth long tubular-obconical, articulate 

 at base ; lobes 5, imbricate ; the interior thicker. Squamules connate 

 in slender erect subentire or shortly crenulate coronule of throat. 

 Stamens 10, inserted at top of the tube under the coronule ; the 5 

 oppositisepalous higher than the others ; filaments of all short ; 

 anthers enclosed introrse, 2-rimose ; apicule somewhat obtuse from 

 short connective. Germen inserted at bottom of tube, free, at apex 

 attenuated to a subulate style, dilated at stigmatose apex. Fruit 

 enclosed by somewhat thickened base of perianth, finally subdry ; 

 seed . . . ? — A glabrous shrub, sometimes subscandent ; branches 

 opposite divaricate more or less open terete (blackish) ; leaves 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, ovately acute penninerved ; stipules ; 

 axillary buds conspicuous ; flowers axillary, oftener solitary, shortly 

 petiolate. {Zanzibar!') 



9. Stephanodaphne H. Bn.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite regular 

 (nearly of Lophostoma)^ 5-merous; calyx hypocrateriform ; tube 

 elongate cylindrical ; lobes of limb 5, short, imbricate, open. Disk 

 thick inserted in throat, annular continuous, finally at reflexed 

 margin unequally fimbriate-lobed. Stamens 10, inserted in 2 series 

 under the throat ; anthers subsessile obtuse introrse. Germen sessile, 



* without disk, perceptibly attenuated to a conical style stigmatose 



1 DC. Prodr. xiv. 600. Thymel. (fasc. 14), 72 {Linostoma). 



2 In habit, leaves, structure of flowers very * Hook. Icon. ser. 3, 59, t. 1074. Oliver 

 near to Linostoma Meissn. of which it formerly describes another species {S. altemifolia) re- 

 formed a section. It differs in inflorescence, markable for its alternate leaves {Hook. le. t. 

 absence of hypogynous disk, sometimes in 1194). 



nature of fruit clothed with calyx. ^ Spec. 1, 2 ? 



* Spec. 1, 2. Meissn, Mart. Fl. Bras. ^ Adansonia, xi. fasc. 10. 



