THYMEL^ACE^. 129 



13. Dais L.^ — Flowers hermaplirodite, 3-merous (nearly of 

 Gnidia)] limb of infundibuliform (coloured) calyx patent; throat esqua- 

 mate. Stamens 10, exserted 2-seriately in throat; filaments setaceous 

 rather longer, all or only the upper exserted ; anthers oblong obtuse. 

 Germen girt at base with cup-shaped membranous disk ; style lateral, 

 apex stigmatose capitate or subclavate truncate. Fruit baccate 

 (sometimes dry ?), enclosed by persistent base of calyx. — Shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate or opposite flat membranous rather large veined; 

 flowers ^ capitate terminal ; capitules solitary pedunculate, involu- 

 crate with 4, 2-cussately imbricate bracts. {Madagascar ^ South. 

 Africa?) 



14 ? Coleophora Mikes.^ — ''• Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous ; 

 calyx coloured infundibuliform ; tube contracted from base to 

 middle and there hirsute within, above and externally glabrous ; 

 throat esquamate ; limb 4- or more rarely 5-fid ; lobes acute reflexed 

 fimbriately ciliate. Stamens 8-10, inserted 2-seriately in throat 

 exserted ; filaments short inflexed ; anthers ovately rotundate sub- 

 versatile; connective dorsal thick, Hypogynous cyathulus sur- 

 rounding filiform stem of germen, springing from small glandular 

 bed adnate to base of calyx, infundibuliform petaloid glabrous, 

 equalling half of calyx, 4-fid ; lobes linear erect. Germen stipitate 

 oblong gibbous pilose ; ovule pendulous from apex of cell ; style 

 terminal (?) filiform, equal in length to germen, enclosed glabrous ; 

 stigma capitate. Fruit. . . ? — A lofty tree ; trunk gemmuliferous ; 

 gemmules aggregate, imbricately multibracteate ; leaves. . . ? ; 

 flowers racemose." {South, Brazil?) 



15. Lasiadenia Benth.^— Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous ; 

 tube of persistent green calyx cylindrical ; throat bare ; lobes of 

 limb 5, very imbricate, patent. Stamens 10, enclosed ; 5 superior, 

 oppositipetalous inserted much higher than the rest and below the 

 throat. Germen very hispid, girt at base with 5 squamules, minute 



1 Gen. n. 640.— J. Gen. 77.— G^ktn. Fruct. Curt. Bot, Mag. t. lil.—Eerb. Amat. t. 214. 



i. 187, t. 39, fig. 3.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 254 ; HI. ^ Ann. Nat. Eist. ser. 2, vii. 196.— Meissn. 



t. 368.— Endl. Gen. n. 2093 ; Suppl. iv. p. ii. Frodr. 648. 



n. 2106.— Meissn. Zinncea^ xiv. 388 (part.) ; ^ gpec. 1, to us quite unknown, viz. C. gem- 



Frodr. 528. miflora Miers, loc. ■yj^.- Meissn. Mart. Fi. Bras. 



2 Rosy or white ? Thymol. 70." 



3 Spec. 2, 3. WiKSTK. Act. Holm. (1818), 270, 6 Hook. Land. Journ. iv. 632.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 348 (part.).— C. A. Met. Bull. S.-P^tersb. iv. 2106 9.— Meissn. JPro^r. 627. 



n. 4. — DcNE. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xx. 61. — 



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