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bricate, generally puberulent within ; throat esquamate. Stamens 8, 2- 

 seriately subsessile to throat; anthers ovate or ellipsoid (in female 

 flower effete or rudimentary, sometimes 0). Female calyx ^ deciduous 

 from base or persistent. Germen sessile (in male flower rudimentary or 

 0), girt at base with hypogynous membranous subentire or 4-fid or 

 partite disk; style very short terminal, apex stigmatose capitate 

 or subclavate. Fruit drupaceous (or sometimes baccate), slightly 

 fleshy or finally dry, naked or girt with calyx, 1-spermous ; seed 

 exalbuminous. — Trees or shrubs ; ^ leaves alternate flat ; inflorescence^ 

 capitate or umbellate pedunculate, sometimes solitary, sometimes in 

 ramose, 2-chotomous corymbs or cymes. (Both trop. Americas.^) 



19. Lagetta J.^ — Flowers (nearly of Lasiadenia) hermaphrodite, 

 4-merous; tube (coloured) ovoid-oblong, often finally above the 

 germen, circurascissously deciduous, above at the throat narrow 

 esquamate, but there often furnished with a somewhat thickened disk 

 lining the tube, otherwise densely hii-sute ; lobes of limb 4, valvate. 

 Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; four inferior, alternating with the lobes ; 

 anthers subsessile ovate, introrsely rimose. Germen sessile hirsute ; 

 ovule 1, descending; style terminal, apex stigmatose subclavate or 

 capitate.^ Fruit clothed with the entire calyx, finally unequally 

 divided, or by its persistent base, dry, externally very pilose ; embryo 

 of externally somewhat fleshy seed thick fleshy ; albumen oftener 

 scanty, sometimes wanting above. — ^^A tree ; branches alternate 

 glabrous ; liber (textile) reticulate ; leaves alternate, cordato-ovate, 

 nitid reticulate ; flowers '' in terminal simple ebracteate few-flowered 

 spikes. [Antilles.^) 



20. Funifera Leandr.^ — Flowers (nearly oi Lasiadenia) polygamo- 

 dioecious, 4-merous ; calyx tubular or campanulate, pubescent or 



^ In the male often not the same. 7 White or slightly green. 



' HdJoii oi Dnphne OT Funifera. ^ Spec, 1. L. linttaria Lamk. — Hook. Kew 



' Flowers white or greenish. Gard. Misc. ii. t. 4. — Lindl. Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 



•* Spec, about 15. Sw. Prodr. 63; FL Lid. n. 60, Icon.— Lem. Fl. Jard. t. 19. — A. Rich. 



Occ. ii. 683 {Daphne).—^. Synops. i. 446 Cm^. xi. 192.— Griseb. ftz^. PL Cub. III.— Bot. 



{Daphne) .—'H.. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 151 Mug. t. 19.— Fageito Lunan, Sort. Jam. i. 473. 



{Daphne). — Bexth. PL Hartweg. 147 {Daphne, — Daphne Lagetto Sw. Prodr. 63; FL Lid. Occ. 



Thgmeleea). —Gms-ETi. Cat. PL Cub. 110. i. 680. 



5 Gen. 77.--LAMK. Diet. iii. 376, 440 ; Suppl. ^ Ex. C. A. Mey. Pull. Acad. S.-Petersh. iv. 



iii. 236; IlL t. 289.— Wikstu. Act. Holm. n. 4.— Endl. G^^w. n. 2106'5.— Meissn. J/ii/-^. Z-'/. 



(1818), 293.— G.EKTN. Fruct. iii. t. 21c.— Spach, Bras. xiv. 67 ; Prodr. 52o.—Neesm Mart. MSS. 



Suit, a Biiffon, x. 437.— Exdl. Gen. n. 2106 ; (Meissn. not 'Qh.).—Poscia Velloz. FL Mum. 



Suppl. iv.p. ii.n. 210616.— Meissn. Prodr. 526. iv. 150, t. U ? 



^ With adherent glandular disk. 



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