128 ■ NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



top of the tube, subssessile, the 4, 5 upper, oppositisepalous generally 

 semi-exserted, sometimes abortive; the inferior same in number 

 enclosed ; anthers of all linear or oblong obtuse, introrse. Hypo- 

 gynous disk short membranous or very short annular, often obsolete. 

 Germen sessile; style lateral, equalling tube, at apex stigmatose 

 capitate. Fruit nucular, enclosed by base of persistent calyx ; seed 

 sparsely albuminous. — Shrubs or undershrubs, either cricoid, or 

 furnished with herbaceous or sub-coriaceous leaves alternate or oppo- 

 site '} flowers ^ terminal, shortly spiked or oftener capitate ; receptacle 

 often pedunculate sometimes hemispherical, often [Lasiosiphon) 

 villose, involucrate with floral leaves (few or oo ) imbricate (some- 

 times larger). [India, south, and troj). east and west Africa and 

 adjacent islands?) 



12. Lachnea Roy.* — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous, regular 

 or sometimes irregular ; tube of perianth straight or curved, slender 

 or infundibuliform, sometimes rnhviiQeoloi^ [Cryptadenia\^ narrowed 

 above the germen and finally circumscissile deciduous ; lobes of limb 

 equal or irregular in 2-labiate limb; the posterior lip smaller 

 (1-lobed) ; the anterior larger open-recurved (3-lobed) ; imbricate in 

 prefloration. Stamens 8, inserted at top of tube, 2-seriate ; the upper 

 4, oppositisepalous and exserted ; filaments slender short, sometimes 

 barbate ; anthers ovate or oblong obtuse. Squamules 8,^ alternating 

 with stamens, sometimes very small, either partially concealed in the 

 hairs of the throat, or inserted at or below the middle of the tube 

 {Cryptadenia) and much lower than the anthers. Hypogynous disk 0. 

 Germen sessile; style lateral capillary, apex stigmatose capitate 

 oftener exserted. Fruit nucular, enclosed by persistent base of 

 calyx ; seed oftener sparsely albuminous. — Shrubs or small shrubs 

 often cricoid branched ; branches slender ; leaves alternate or opposite, 

 linear or acerose, glabrous or variously pilose ; flowers "^ sometimes 

 terminal solitary or oftener capitate involucrate or naked. — {South. 

 Africa?) 



1 The leafy branches are said to resemble 408 ; Prodr. 574. — Lachara L. Syst. ed. 2, 22. — 

 the compound leaves of Fsilea (of the Legumi- Gonophylla Eckl. et Zeyh. MSS. (Meissn.) — 

 nosce). Radojitskya Turcz. Bull. Mosc. (1852), 176. 



2 White, yellow, lilac or reddish. s Meissn. Linncea, xiv. 404 ; Prodr. 573. — 

 2 Spec, about 65 L. f. Suppl. 225. — Wikstr. Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2101. —Calysericos 



Thyinel. 315.— Lindl. Pot. Peg. t. 757.— Done. Eckl. et. Zeyh. (Meissn.). 



Foy. Jacquem. Pot. {Lasiosiphon). — Miq. Anal. ^ Staminodes ? 



Bot. Ind. ii. 3, t. 1.— Walp. Ann. i. 587 {La- ^ Oftener rosy or lilac. 



siosiphon), 587 {Pnkleia), 588 {Psilosolena). 8 gpec. about 22 L. Spec. ed. 1, 560. — Burm. 



4 L. Gen. ed. 2, n. 382.— J. Gen. 77.— Afr. t. 46, 48 (r/iyw^/^a).— Thunb. Fl. Cap. 



G^RTN. Fruct. iii. 195, t. 215.— Lamk. Diet. 375 {Pasesrina), 378 {Gnidia). — Andr. Bot. 



iii. 373 ; III. t 292.— Endl. Gen. n. 2094 ; Pepos. t. 104.— Turcz. Flora (1853), 743 (Pa- 



Suppl. iv. p. ii. n. 2193. — Meissn. Limiaa, xiv. dojitskya). — Bot. Mag. 1. 1295, 4143 {Passer ina.). 



